Sundara realizes that she has disgraced her family and even her race as a whole when she chose to start associating herself with an American boy. Sundara begins to recall her last day in Phnom Pen and recalls her suitor Chamroeun. Sundara avoid Jonathan, but he is insistent. Sundara begins to miss Jonathan’s companionship. To make matters worse Sundara is told that Chamroeun is dead. Sundara has never told anyone in her family that Chamroeun was actually her suitor and therefore they do not know the pain she is suffering. Jonathan comforts Sundara over her guilt for having escaped Cambodia and left Chamroeun there to die. Jonathan tells Sundara that there is a reason for everything and that she was chosen to live for a reason. Afterwards, Sundara reveals to Jonathan that she has not cried in four years because if she started she would not be able to stop. Later on in the section, Sundara learns from Ravy that Jonathan was injured during a football game. Worried, Sundara goes to visit Jonathan at the hospital where she reads the inspirational words "HERE, AT WHATEVER HOUR YOU COME YOU WILL FIND LIGHT AND HELP AND HUMAN KINDNESS- ALBERT SCHWEITZER" (Crew 152). At this point, Sundara feels a sense of peace that motivated her to be herself and no one else. In a sense, this one quote led her to become more American and seek independence. This quote told her that it was okay to be herself because in the event that she needed help help, she could find it here, in America. When Sundara finally reaches, Jonathan tells Sundara that he loves her.