Finding Me by Viola Davis5/26/2023 Just as she begins to climb out of her family’s cycle of poverty, she is faced with a reminder of the past when she first opens the door to the apartment she is subletting during her first year at Juilliard. Finding Me is Viola Davis story, in her own words, and spans her incredible, inspiring life, from her coming-of-age in Rhode Island to her present day. All of these contribute to the extreme shame that Viola feels about her circumstances, contributing to her desire to exorcise or “detox” this part of her life it is what stands in the way of her reconciling her childhood self with her identity as an adult. The conditions of the apartment highlight specific aspects of Viola’s childhood: the abject poverty, food insecurity, lack of physical safety, and consistent trauma. The apartment is located in a condemned building it is extremely unsafe because faulty wiring causes fires to break out frequently there is rarely any electricity, heat, gas, or running water the place is rat-infested, with rodents coming out in droves at night and destroying everything in the apartment and it is a place where Viola’s family experiences harassment from their neighbors. But Davis' raw memoir 'Finding Me' (HarperOne, 304 pp.), which was released in April 2022 and won Davis a Grammy for narrating the audiobook, reveals anything but glamour on her path to fame and. As a symbol, it represents the challenges and adversities of Viola’s childhood. Nicknamed simply “128,” the apartment comes to serve as a codeword for “hell” among her and her sisters. An important symbol in the book is Viola and her family’s first apartment in Central Falls, 128 Washington Street.
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