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The power of enchantment has the power to cast a glamor, in this case the narrator glamourized American culture forsaking the beauty his Chinese heritage had to offer him.

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The love of a mother is what imbued the paper animals with magic, as well as her deep desire to pass it on through her child.

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A forest is abound with vitality, this liveliness has the power to haunt those who enter the bush as they feel its life/lives.

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The skeletal ghosts in this short story represent his ancestry and as well a the rites of life one undergoes as they transition between life phases and beyond.

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Often the mother daughter either reflect each other or merge into one altogether, showing the cycle of how girls grow into their womanhood through their proximity to the maternal figures.

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Throughout "My Mother", there is a loving yet antagonistic dynamic between mother and daughter characterized through the many different metamorphoses of the duo.