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Sister Memphis/Martha
Danielle is Sister Saundra’s 13-year-old daughter. She has light, “French vanilla” skin, a freckly nose, and reddish-colored hair. Danielle begrudgingly joins her mother and the rest of the Muslim Girls Training class on the trip to Chicago for the Saviour’s Day celebration. Sister Memphis is put in charge of her during the ride, and Danielle shares with her that she does not consider Saundra to be her mother, because she does not believe that Saundra really cares for her or her sister. This revelation sparks a flashback to Sister Memphis’s own difficult past, and Sister Memphis decides to show Danielle some compassion by fixing her hair and giving her a nail file to clean under her nails. But the story implies that later, during a pit stop, Danielle uses the nail file to break into cars in a parking lot. Officer O’Malley starts to accuse Sister Memphis, not even considering Danielle as the potential culprit because of her fair skin. But Sister Memphis is sure she did something wrong and confronts Danielle. Danielle begins to talk back disrespectfully, but Sister Memphis ends up pinching her legs so hard she starts to bleed.
Danielle Quotes in Temple Folk
The Temple Folk quotes below are all either spoken by Danielle or refer to Danielle. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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What average person would bother a girl like Danielle—her skin like whipping cream—with accusations of wrongdoing? When in the experiences of fair women, she considered, had such accusations ever amounted to anything in the way of hard consequences?
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Danielle Character Timeline in Temple Folk
The timeline below shows where the character Danielle appears in Temple Folk. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
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...dedication to the Nation’s values is so far questionable. She is with her 13-year-old daughter, Danielle. Sister Saundra asks Sister Lucinda if Danielle can join the trip. Sister Memphis is against...
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...bus, except for Sister Memphis, who is reading about Cambodia in her newspaper. She senses Danielle looking at her and turns to speak to her, hoping to reassure her that she...
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...and roughly searches each woman. Nearing the back, he looks at Sister Memphis just as Danielle is returning her nail file. He shouts angrily at her. Sister Memphis starts handing over...
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Back on the bus, Sister Memphis threatens to tell the minister that Danielle has done something illegal. Danielle believes that, now that the Messenger is dead, Sister Memphis’s...
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