Sister Light, Sister Dark | Characters
In Sister Light, Sister Dark, the focal character is Jenna, traced from her birth through her early teens. Her special status as a prophesied savior is reflected in the images and various names attached to her: Jo-an-nna, Annuenna, the white babe, White Goddess, and more. "And so Great Alta made the Anna, the White One, the Holy One." The charm of Jenna's story is the play between the ordinary in life and the extraordinary, the tug between a gifted girl wanting to belong and an impressionable folk isolating the heroine of its myth. "I am not the White Babe," Jenna insists for...
[The entire page is 923 words long]
Join eNotes
Over 3,500 study guides, question and answer forums, literature criticism, reference content, and much more!
Navigate
Related Topics
Tell a friend about Sister Light, Sister Dark at eNotes.
