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English, 07.12.2020 19:20, whitneyt2013

Need help! I had indeed lost my mind, for all the smoldering emotions of that summer swelled in me and burst—the great need for my mother who was never there, the hopelessness of our poverty and degradation, the bewilderment of being neither child nor woman and yet both at once, the fear unleashed by my father’s tears. And these feelings combined in one great impulse toward destruction.

What state of mind is revealed by the quote, “all the smoldering emotions of that summer swelled in me and burst.

Euphoria at the thought of becoming a woman.
An overflow of anger and resentment towards the narrator’s neglectful parents.
An overwhelming feeling of helplessness caused by the narrator’s new understanding of the world.
Bitterness as the narrator realizes the depths of her family’s poverty.

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