Themes Flashcards
“I don’t why but I feel as if its two of us against the world.Whatever happen we must never let them win.”
Theme: Family. She feels as though She really is against the world but instead with her family and relationships.
‘When I get to be seventeen, I sure don’t want to be taken out of school to marry someone I’ve just met.’
Self Esteem: She doesn’t want to end up like her family and how they treat her
“You are bad luck”
Family/self esteem: again she is treated horribly and she is really believing she’s bad luck.
” Continue studying hard and brining honor to the yen family name so we can be proud of you”
Self esteem: she fees as though all she can do to impress her family is to study and they’ll be proud of her
” One by on they were greeted and led away by anxious mothers. Nobody came for me”
Family: it really is proving that her family rarely think of her and accept that she’s alive.
” they didn’t know that, in front of them, I was desperate to keep up the pretense that I came from a normal, loving family.”
Family: she really is an unwanted child
” I only took yours because you’re the one least likely to give me trouble afterwards”
Self esteem : nobody thinks much her at all
” nothing will ever come of you…you don’t belong in this house.”
Family: Her family is treating her like a unwanted and a unworthy child that doesn’t belong in her household
” the thought of being seperated from my aunt filled me with dread.”
Family: aunt baba is the only one in the family that cares for her and loves her in the family.
” as soon as I heard aunt babas , I started to feel better immediately. “
Family: aunt baba is the only one that cates for her deeply
” I was such a nobody that he didn’t even remember my name “
Self esteem: she tells is believing that she is a nobody
” I wondered why he was being so nice”
Family: her family is never kind and they never as though they care
” for once, he was proud of me… My whole being vibrated with all the joy in the world”
Family: they are never happy or proud of her
“There is a god after all”
Loneliness : she finally has hope
” they made me feel a though I was their third child”
Family: she is finally treated like a actual child in a family
