"And in my memory I can still feel the hope that beat in me that night. I clung to this hope, day after day, night after night, year after year. I would watch my mother lying in her bed, babbling to herself as she sat on the sofa. And yet I knew this, the worst possible thing, would one day stop. I still saw bad things in my mind, but now I found ways to change them. "
This chapter was difficult for me to understand. I felt like it went a lot of different places and confused the heck out of me. In the beginning, Lena was trying to figure out what the worst possible thing was and I guess she found out. She found out that the worst possible thing was having a mother who is going insane and she cannot do anything about it. She still has hope, though, that all of it will come to an end at some point.
The literary term I choose for this chapter is MOOD (the emotional atmosphere of a work). The mood of this chapter is very creepy and kind of scary, to me. Amy Tan uses a style of writing in this chapter that seems different. It's like she made this chapter eerie on purpose. The whole time Lena is trying to figure out what the worst possible thing is. I can't imagine the worst possible thing. There are things that make us scared, though. Like the way something is written, for instance, or the way something is said or delivered. Tricks like these make situations seem much, much worse than they are.
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