TOW #8 - IRB: My Beloved World

My Beloved World is a profound story of triumph unlike any ever released before. Sonia Sotomayor painted such a meaningful and rich picture with the story, and defined herself and her experiences through it. In My Beloved World, Sonia Sotomayor uses powerful anecdotes in order to define her life and her principles, too. Every experience she included had meaning, from advocacy at Princeton to struggles at Yale Law to triumph on the bench, every piece of the book conveyed her principles, and captured her essence as well. Sotomayor starts the second half describing her activism for minorities in general at Princeton, continues to explain her marriage, then provides stories from her days at the challenging Yale Law School. Then she can be found in the New York District Attorney's Office, skillfully making moves from misdemeanor department up to the felony department and even having a homicide case. She then found herself getting a job from a posh international law firm in Midtown, succeeding in every imaginable situation she found herself in. When she was finally nominated to become a judge by a national senator, she saw her dreams being realized, and the power of this moment will be immortalized in this book. The anecdotes in this story show the morals and ideals that she values more effectively than just blatantly stating her thoughts. For example, when talking about the rigors of law school, she said that: "Even a correct answer could lead to further probing that might leave you looking for a hole to crawl into" (Sotomayor 218). She later explains that this would shape her into a successful lawyer as it would teach her the pressure she would have to operate under. Her story of anguish was included for a reason, as it shaped her being. Every piece included in the book shaped Sotomayor, so all of it helped her to achieve her purpose and made the book so interesting. Few people are like Sotomayor, and her one of a kind biography exemplifies this.