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The paper stresses that the book is not written from a Chinese viewpoint, but rather from the view of a first-generation, Chinese-American daughter of immigrant parents. The author points out that it is also a story of an adolescent girl's journey into adulthood, the story of how one person integrates all elements of her life, including her relationship with her parents and other family members, into the composite of experience known as personality. The paper describes the relation of mother and daughter and states that the wear and tear on such a relationship must have been difficult for both the mother and the daughter; however, the result was an independent, strong, and valuable person.

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"The aunt, the no-name woman, becomes the ideal of courage, honor, and rebelliousness by refusing to name the father of her child and taking blame as well as responsibility. Taking the child with her into death is interpreted by the narrator as an act of love. Her mother reinforces (instills) this belief when she tells her, "Carrying the baby to the well shows loving " Mothers who love their children take them along. It was probably a girl; there is some hope of forgiveness for boys." "

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