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Internal And External Conflicts In Chains By Laurie Halse Anderson

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Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson talks about Isabel, an enslaved person, and her voyage for freedom. Isabel faces many conflicts both internal and external throughout the book. Her growth in the novel symbolizes a coming of age changing her into a young woman. She experiences her first coming of age when she loses her mother to smallpox. Isabel without a motherly figure has to adapt in order to take care of herself and her younger sister. She demonstrates this when she tends to her owner Mrs. Finch when she also gets down with smallpox. After the death of Mrs. Finch , Isabel recalls of the will left by the Finch estate that releases Ruth and herself from enslavement. Unfortunately Robert Finch, the nephew of Isabel’s late owner, denied freedom

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