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YING YING (Themes/symbols/events (Female Societal Expectations (YY's…

- - - - pg 85: YY's mother made her " new tiger clothes". However, after she dirtied them, she was left "standing in [her] white cotton undergarments and tiger slippers".
        
        loss of her identity and her personality was almost as if it were peeled away
      - pg 69: her and Lena were "lost", "unseen and not seeing, unheard and not hearing, unknown by others"
        "kept [her] true nature hidden, running along like a small shadow so nobody could catch [her]" :simile is apt
        
        fears that Lena has fallen down the same trap: insignificant; failed to grasp the impt things in their life as they had not been true to their nature
        
        relevation that smth blighted her life; takes on reminiscent/ regretful tone
        
        wants daughter to actively create her own future, not just see the direction it’s heading in and passively go along with it
      - pg 83: fell into the water "not even hearing my own splash" which was like "weightless sleep" at first but started to "choke" and "thrash"
        
        calm VS panic: use of simile to show peacefulness; close shave with drowning left a deep impact/ trauma
      - pg 90: "never believed [her] family found the same girl" and that her wish was "to be found"
        
        literal idea of being lost and lost her naivety; does not trust her family anymore
  - - - pg 76: "A boy can run and chase dragonflies because that is his nature" but "a girl should stand still"
        
        gender roles: restrictive life
      - pg 73: it was "wrong" to have "selfish desires" as "A girl should never ask, only listen"
        
        cultural expectations where female chr identity is silent; cannot articulate/express your needs or be adventurous and explotary
      - pg 76: the "old ladies clucked in agreement"
        
        metaphor of old ladies like mother hens- vivid image of how older women attempt to enforce and preserve expectations for women
    - - pg 88: "woman is yin", "the darkness within, where untempered passions lie, and man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds"
        
        society placed women in the shadow of men; worth only in relation to other ppl but never themselves
      - pg 86: "hair was undone and she was combing it"
        
        feminity; beauty
- - - - ironic that she identifies with her shadow and delight is in it although her name means reflection
    - - vivid, animated image of a girl who is vivacious/ bubbly/ active and spirited
  - - - curious about the world around her and innocent belief in wonders like the Moon Lady