"I would always remember my parents' wishes, but I would never forget myself" (pg.58). At the age of two, Lindo Jong was arranged to marry Tyan-Yu, the son of a very important and wealthy family. Lindo's parents promised Tyan-Yu's mother that she would marry him when she turns sixteen. However when she was twelve terrible storms came and ruined her families property forcing them to move, and Lindo was sent to live with Tyan-Yu and his family. She was treaed like a servant rather than a future wife there. she was forced to do many many chores. Even when she tuned sixteen and married Tyan-Yu, she was still treated like a servant. So she made up a story that a servant girl was Tyan-Yu's fated wife, and she was carrying his baby. Then she was able to leave the family and go to the United States.
A literary device for this chapter would be foreshadowing. The ceremonial red wedding candle goes out which foreshadows Lindo's doomed marriage.
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