Quickwrite: Scar

How do you think An-Mei and her mother would respond? Would they think the statement is true or false? Would they be somewhere in-between?

I feel that An-Mei and her mother would have differing opinions on the question. An-Mei’s mother may have been someone who spurned family traditions and left her family for a man with 3 wives, but in the end she still showed that she felt that she had some obligation to her family. Even though her family somewhat hated her, she still came back in the end to take care of her mom in her final days. When her mom was dying, she still came back in the middle of all their hatred and did everything she could, she even cut a piece of meat from her arm off and fed it to her mother in hopes of it healing her. This shows that she had a lot of family devotion in the end because it takes a lot of devotion to go and cut a piece of meat off your arm by yourself without hesitating or giving up the the middle of doing it. She may be somewhere in the middle most of the time, but during certain incidents, she would flip to either extreme of the spectrum.

I feel that An-Mei herself though is somewhere in between in the debate weather family honor was more important than individual rights. She does seem to have some loyalty to her family. This is shown when she was almost going to die. When she was in danger of dying, her grandmother told her that if she did not get better, then she would have a lot of unpaid debt left to her family and that even her mother got so sick of waiting that she picked her things up and left. An-Mei suddenly hurried onto the road of recovery and she stopped complaining of dying and how bad that she felt, all she did was try to consciously get better. Even though you cannot consciously force yourself to get better, her grandmothers words still motivated her to get better and she treid to act upon her grandmother’s words.