Cared about her Mom:
- Mom died
- felt could not leave
- after death flet connection with mother sul through garden
Scared about Egypt:
- insecurity
- Garden is a connects egypt with her home
- talk to flowers/mother
- fill void
Otherness:
- always thinking what otehrs think
- Feels out of place
- culture shock
- not wearing same clothes
- intruding on culture
OR
- Not equal/did not have to hide self
OR
- wealth=jealous
- different like tourist
- white people showing different way of life
- more races then just white
- women are assuming or thinking bad/judging her
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- talking to flower
- "dear lady"
- refuses "dear lady" when talking to Muhad
- Looks down on egyptians
- no right to talk
- scared of his intentions of him liking her
- uncomfortable (stranger)
Everything Grotto:
- man made-unatural Garden-natural
- man taught by foriegners to speak
- garden connection no matter real or fake
- the woman wanted to leave when she first met man
- humans not so different
Why Grotto?
mystical/secluded/spiritual/knowledge
What caused the woman to go to the Grotto?
- curiosity
- adventurous
- want to explore/learn something new
not to judge/suttle similarities even if do not look it
wants to experience but always has fear
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