hild's awakening process. This process offers children fresh insights and new ideas about the changing and growing world that they can choose to be a part of. She shares her own experience here:
             "A child is asleep. Her private life unwinds inside her skin and skull; only as she sheds childhood, first one decade, and then another, can she locate the actual, historical stream, see the setting of her dreaming private life-the nation, the city, the neighborhood, the house where the family lives-as an actual project underway, a project living people willed, and made well or failed, and are still making, herself among them. I breathed the air of history all unaware, and walked oblivious through its littered layers," (74).
             Her indication of children being "asleep" refers to their inability to
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