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Beautiful purple flowers grow amongst filth & duckweed, proving there is beauty in trash and treasure, she realizes not everything in life will be beautiful, you have to "wade" throw the trash, the bad times the hard times rather painful times, to see the beauty, the flowers, the good, peaceful, loving times.

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This girl accuses her roommates because of the distrust, lies, and secrets within Russia at the time, the mental ideal of "every man for themselves" is evident within this conflict in society

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As I watched her, I finally understood: This woman, one of the only human

beings dear to me, this silence, this loneliness, this backwardness, were all

one; she was my blood, my source, my mooring in this world. No one was

closer to me; yet no one could have been stranger. It was through her that I

knew the tenderness of this world, and through her too that I was linked to

the chains of my past, to the pain of existence. Confusedly, as if through a

fog, I saw a vision of my future” (143).
Hung realizing how thick blood runs within Aunt Tam, all this time she thought her mother was molding her into who she is, but it was really the expecatations and live of her Aunt she was following.

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Would her mother's allegiance shift from her uncle to her? Is the male dominance society to blame for where she is now, in Russia, as an exported worker?

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Value of honor represents how shame is a human emotion
Hang's mother's allegiance is to her brother, not her daughter
Aunt Tam blames Uncle Chinh for death of her brother

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The worshipping of ancestors, is a main focus as one must stay and prosper their ancestrial home, bless it and maintain it for future generation's use, food, is a language throughout Vietnamese, as the kind of food prepare is up to the class of the guest. Nicer foods at nicer occasions

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In death beads of sweat were beading across Emma's forehead, thus a sign of dirtiness. To sweat was of to be of the lower class, something Emma desperately tried to get away from, but even in death she died dirty sweating, representing how her lifestyle of wanting more wanting better ended up killing her because she could not rise to the social hierarchy.

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One man's trash is another man's treasure 

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One man's trash is another man's treasure 

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“I tried to remember a man I never knew: Father. To me, my childhood

seemed like a ball kicked across the road, aimless, without any purpose…I

ended up at the mouth of a sewer. The water sloshed toward the gutter

through an old grate that was clogged with trash: a toothbrush, the remains

of a comb, a duck egg, a tomato skin…I took a long bamboo pole and forced

myself to free each object, trying to guess its origin…’How dare you play in

this filth?’” (91-92).
Hung is just being a little kid playing around her village when her uncle swings by and finds her playing in what to him is filth because people are working in the streets. The only reason her uncle is there to is gather the money from the house, something even little Hung can see through, but to her mother it is everything to have her brother back. A present motif of family bond, where her uncle just sees a dollar sign her mother sees the memories, the blood, and the bond they share.

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True love...kinda

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Russia is bone chilling cold, brown, and dark vs. Vietnam which is warm, green, and full of light, green grass

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Family Worshiping -ancestors
Food- TEA
Clothing
Duty & Honor
Tradition/Ritual

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Blindness is blissful ignorance, because you do not know what you are missing, things are always pleasant and helpful, but really being blind is harmful, not helpful.

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The 7 deadly sins are distinctly within Madame Bovary gluttony through food and sins are evident.