"The same innocence, trust, and restlessness, the wonder, fear, and loneliness. How I lost myself. I remembered all these things. And tonight, on the fifteenth day of the eighth moon, I also remember what I asked the Moon Lady so long ago. I wished to be found."
Everyone gets lost sometime in their life. Figuratively and physically speaking. Ying-Ying lost herself physically when she fell off the boat and figuratively when she found out the Moon Lady was a man. This happens over and over during the course of our lives. We just always have to remind ourselves to find the person we once were.
The literary term I chose for this chapter is FLASHBACK (the insertion of an earlier event into the normal chronological order of a narrative). This whole chapter is basically a flashback. Ying-Ying is telling the story of the first time she lost and found herself. She could only remember when she was older and nearer to the end, although closer to the beginning at the same time.
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