Inner Layers

My blog post is in response to the question, What does Rachel mean when she says that she has "middle layers"? How does this relate to her being the "new girl" and her newly realized biracial identity? Does everyone have middle layers, or just Rachel? These are important questions that we need to ask for the first part of the reading.

Rachel believes in her middle layers because I feel like there are layers she doesn't really know who she is. She is still identifying herself and who she has become. She grew up completely different from the way she needs to live now that she is with her grandma and aunt. It relates to her being the "new girl" because she bottles everything inside her. She doesn't know how to identify herself with the people in her new environment. She mentions that her aunt has the middle layers as well. She keeps secrets from people and lives a completely different life. She acts differently and doesn't really tell people the real her. She also bottles up her anger into a specific bottle, so people never really see the real angry Rachel. (Kelcey Summers, 5)