Literary Term: I found vernacular in the beginning of this chapter. "Chunwang chihan: If the lips are gone, the teeth will be cold (149)." The author uses vernacular with the purpose of incorporating another culture's language into the reading.
Quote from novel: "I still feel that somehow, for the most part, we deserve what we get (155)."
In this chapter, Lena remembers a memory from her childhood of a neighbor boy, Arnold, whom she hated. She had intentions for something bad to happen to him, like death, and maybe it was just connected to coincidences. When Lena hears that he died, she makes herself sick just thinking of Arnold. After all this occurred, Lena begins to think Arnold was destined to be her husband. Lena finds to many coincidences for her fate to be any otherwise. However, she ends up marrying Harold. "I still feel that somehow, for the most part, we deserve what we get." This reminds me of the saying, "You get a taste of your own medicine." In the end, people deserve what they get.
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