Explain the context and importance:
"With horror I realized that during those awful days she had not been showing me mother love at all. In some twisted way, the pain she inflicted on me had to do with her own selfish wants and desires" (137).
- WHITE JADE
Explain the context and importance.
"I also wore white jade, but unlike Snow Flower, I hoped it would protect my child not from my husband’s skin tone but from my own" (145).