The Joy Luck Club Entry #5
Scar by An-Mei Hsu
I think that Scar by An-Mei Hsu is one of my favorite stories in The Joy Luck Club. This story tells of a daughter seeing how devoted her mother was to her grandmother, Popo. At first the mother is acknowledged as a "ghost" because she left her daughter, and has yet to be seen. Popo tells her that she should not be mentioned at all in the household. Popo told her life's morals. She told fearful stories to her granddaughter so that her daughter would never make the mistake of being greedy and disobedient. However, later on in the story, when Popo becomes ill, their Aunt tells them that their mother has married and had many children, when the main character's brother tells the Aunt she scared the mother away. In turn, the mother comes in at the end of the story, to see her dying grandmother. Suddenly she remembers a moment in her past, when she had gotten a scar. The scar symbolizes the time in which she lost her mother. A boiling pot of soup lay between them as they were seperated, and the soup spilled on her neck. When Popo is dying, the mother cuts off a piece of flesh in order to try to help her mother survive. It was an almost desperate attempt of hope.
Later on into the story, the main character realizes how much people can sacrifice to their mothers. The pain is something that should be forgotten, because sometimes it is the only way to remember what is in your bones. What is in your bones, is your grandmother and mother and other predecessors of the life before you. This story made you realize that you should appreciate the bones that are in you for the rest of your life. The story emphasizes that the wound may hurt you, but you are only proving and seeing what is truly in your soul. If we were to sacrifice our own flesh for our family, we would learn to forget the pain and remember the life that was lived before your birth.
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