Even if it meant she couldn't see or interact with her children all that time. The pain he feels is evident when he says: "At the end I heard the cheerful laughter of the children, and immediately two sweet little faces looked at me, as if they knew I was there, and were aware of the joy it conveyed to me." . How I wanted to tell them I was there” (97). She tolerated being locked in a dark and closed space for 7 long years in order to free her children from the current master who kept them as slaves, demonstrating how having someone to put before yourself makes you stronger and more resistant as human beings.