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An-mei is the narrator of “Scar” and “Magpies,” and her stories revolve around the sacrifices of her disgraced mother. When she is four, An-mei’s father dies and her mother is exiled from the family for remarrying and becoming a rich merchant’s lowly fourth wife, rather than remaining a widow forever. An-mei’s mother returns to take An-Mei to her second husband Wu Tsing’s house after An-mei’s grandmother, Popo, dies. At Wu Tsing’s, An-mei and her mother are treated terribly by Second Wife, who controls the household. An-mei’s mother eventually commits suicide on a date that frightens the superstitious Wu Tsing, giving power back to An-mei.
An-mei Hsu Quotes in The Joy Luck Club
The The Joy Luck Club quotes below are all either spoken by An-mei Hsu or refer to An-mei Hsu. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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The Joy Luck Club
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Not know your own mother? How can you say? Your mother is in your bones!
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Part 1, Chapter 2
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My mother took her flesh and put it in the soup. She cooked magic in the ancient tradition to try to cure her mother this one last time. She opened Popo’s mouth, already too tight from trying to keep her spirit in. She fed her this soup, but that night Popo flew away with her illness. Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain.
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“A mother is best. A mother knows what is inside you," she said above the singing voices. "A psyche-atricks will only make you hulihudu, make you see heimongmong."
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An-mei Hsu Quotes in The Joy Luck Club
The The Joy Luck Club quotes below are all either spoken by An-mei Hsu or refer to An-mei Hsu. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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The Joy Luck Club
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Not know your own mother? How can you say? Your mother is in your bones!
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Part 1, Chapter 2
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My mother took her flesh and put it in the soup. She cooked magic in the ancient tradition to try to cure her mother this one last time. She opened Popo’s mouth, already too tight from trying to keep her spirit in. She fed her this soup, but that night Popo flew away with her illness. Even though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain.
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Without Wood
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“A mother is best. A mother knows what is inside you," she said above the singing voices. "A psyche-atricks will only make you hulihudu, make you see heimongmong."
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