Joy Luck Club - The Scar

Chapter 2 talked about An-Mei Hsu's childhood and her mysterious mother. An-Mei's mother left her when she was just a child and An-Mei lived with her Popo until one hot summer day when Popo got very sick.

An-Mei was brought up the traditional way by her grandmother. All her life she was told stories of what happens to disobedient girls. Popo also told An-Mei her mother's shame and never is An-Mei to say her mother's name. An-Mei grew up thinking she did not have a mother and believed her Popo when she said that a goose had laid an egg and that's how An-Mei was born.

When An-Mei was four years old her mother tried to take her back from Popo but of course Popo and An-Mei's aunt wouldn't let her. Then an accident happened, and An-Mei's mother left. Two years later when Popo was sick and dying An-Mei's mother came back. Although An-Mei almost had no memory of her mother she still loved her. To show her respect, An-Mei's mother cut off a piece of her flesh and drop it in Popo's medicine in hoping of saving her mother one last time. But to no avail, that night Popo died.

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