While reading the Invention of Wings and observing the behaviors of the characters, Sarah Grimke was one of the characters that stood out to me. What I found interesting about her was the white savior complex that seemed to be a great part of her character. For those of you who may not be familiar with this term, a white savior complex is when someone who’s usually white feels as if it’s their duty to help out marginalized groups, particularly racial minority groups, and put them in a place of equal standing and upward mobility. However, they often do this more for themselves instead of for the person or groups they are trying to help Recently, a group on YouTube took a humorous look at this complex in their video titled Let's Save Africa ! - Gone wrong where they made a parody of a commercial for an NGO, hoping to get the public to understand the white savior complex. Sometimes those who have this complex may feel pity for the person they’re helping instead of having a genuine connection with that person. I think this is the case with Sarah and Handful’s relationship, especially as the two grow older and become more distant. For example, by the time of the workhouse accident that Handful was injured in, instead of comforting her, Sarah offers a measly “sorry” (168) to make Handful feel better. Instead of assuaging Handful’s pain, Sarah’s “apology” only adds to the resentment Handful had towards her when Sarah gave her back to the malicious Missus because she can’t stand the idea of owning a slave herself. This action of Sarah’s further reveals this complex, showing her more self-righteous nature as well. The giving back of Handful to Missus only worsens Handful’s situation that Sarah was trying to make better in the first place. As a result, it seems that Sarah is more into the cause of abolition for herself than for better the life of Handful because she only though about herself and not Handful. I think if Sarah really wanted to help Handful, she should have kept her and later set her free, maybe even taking Handful with her on her trips to the north. So far in all of the reading I have done, it seems to me that Sarah fails to take any actions to help the abolitionist cause she says she’s fighting for. I think this is because she is more caught up in society as she tries to figure out how to fit into a society that for the most part looks down upon outspoken women and abolition. Because of this, the pressures and norms placed upon her by her family, and her journey of self-discovery, I think Sarah gets a little lost in her goals to achieving freedom for the slaves. Only until she can see the slaves as people who need real human connections and not pity and learn to put her some of her self-righteousness aside, I think, will Sarah be able to be more of the activist she desires to become.