Quickwrite #1:Kweilin Story

Mother- Suyuan Woo
Daughter- Jing-mei "June" Woo
(too lazy to type them out, so it's just going to be mother and daughter)

There were about two different endings to the Kweilin story. One of the, was the mah-jong game, and what the mother did with her money, which included buying food. The other ending is when she escapes Kweilin, with only her two babies, a wheelbarrow, and the mah-jong table. Also in the wheelbarrow, anything that was valuable to her at the time.

With the tip that she received from the officer, the mom packed up her things and heads to her husband, but along the way, her wheelbarrow wheel breaks off and she has to abandon her table, make a sling and carry the babies.

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I think that she changes the ending to the story she tells to her daughter, because she wants to keep her safe from knowing the real thing. If the mom told her daughter the whole story, the true, complete one, then the daughter will only remember that story form the moment it was told, but when the mom tells her daughter the story again, then the daughter probably won't want to hear it.

Also, another reason why the mother would want to keep changing the endings to her story is to keep the daughter hooked. While the daughter may know what ending to expect and probably has heard it many times, it keeps her sort of connected to the story, and how her mother sacrificed everything in order to get where they are now.

That also applies to the message that the mother is trying to send to her daughter. The message that the mother went through a lot of things in her life, and even if the daughter could never sense it, her mother is still remembering all that had happened to her in Kweilin, and mostly because she lost two babies, which can be really depressing.

Another message that the mom could be sending her daughter is that she is lucky to live where she lives now, in a place where there is not much violence happening, and just the fact that her daughter does not have to go through the same experiences that she went through.