"Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone else's joy. That is why you must learn to swallow your tears" (pg.217). In these chapters An-Mei and Ying Ying discuss their past in order to help their daughters. An-Mei says that Rose is sitting back in silence and watching her marriage falling apart. She thinks she has no choice, but by doing nothing she is making a choice. Ying Ying and her daughter Lena were both born of the tiger. This means that they both have the fierceness of a tiger, but Lena foes not act fierce so Ying Ying decides to share her painful story to unleash her daighter's tiger spirit.
The literary device in these chapters is personification. In An-mei's story her mother once told her a story where a turtle swallowed her tears and spoke to her. This is personification because turtles can not speak.
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