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1. The ending of the story is the most unhappy and hardest part to understand. Beginning of the tragedy starts from the time when Ti Moune starts to want more than she originally desired. Before she met the Daniel at his hotel, her head was only full of Daniel's well being. However, after she starts to stay in that hotel, her desire was constantly growing and she wasn't a peasant girl Ti Moune anymore. It seemed like Ti Moune's desire that being a Daniel's wife might become true before Andrea, Daniel's fiance, came back. When Andrea came back, the mood changes in wierd way to Ti Moune. Daniel introduces Andrea and Ti Moune to each other and Daniel and Andrea say three people can stay all together which doesn't make any sense to Ti Moune. This part is one of the biggest part that shows how rich people think about peasant girl which is never going to be changed. They were thinking more likely her as a pet not a same level of human being with them. Eventually she gets kicked out from the hotel and ends up her life by beaten up with other peasants where she originally belonged. Even though Ti Moune ended up her life miserably, I wouldn't say this story is just a tragedy. Maybe Ti Moune's destiny was meant to be sad ending, but I think she had her happiest life right before she died. She had extremely hard but meaningful journey from the village to the hotel to achieve what she truly desired for her entire life. Whatever the ending was, I think the person who tried something for her life won't have any regret for the result. Everyone ends up their life with death, but not everyone doesn't have any regret in their life. Also, I think the author wanted to show that Ti Moune finally become free which was her true desire by showing the butterflies that came out after Ti Moune died.

2. The first thing that I learned from this book was the fact that the fate can never be changed. Before Ti moune leaves the village, Monsieur Bienconnu tells Ti Moune that "History cast our fate in stone" which foreshadows Ti moune's ending. So, while I was reading the book, I was focused on how she would change her destiny. However, her destiny has already been decided from the beginning, peasants can not be a rich and rich can not be a peasant, and the story ended with her failure of changing her destiny. After I finished reading the book and thought more about Ti Moune's death, I thought the ending is not the most important part is what this book is trying to teach audience. Ti Moune couldn't change her fate that a peasant becoming a rich, but I would say Ti Moune changed her life from being in the village where she wanted to get out to traveling the mysterious and unknown place where the freedom that she desired exists. Maybe everyone has their decided destiny, but the real point of the life that I learned from this book is focusing on how we end up to our decided destiny, not focusing on where we end up.