Reaction to the scar, the red candle, and the moon lady

The last three stories from the first section of the book were all so symbolic. The first one, the scar, was about a little girl who is left by her mother to live with her grandmother. Her grandmother tells her of how her mother is looked upon and how she is a ghost because she dishonored her family and ran off to marry a player guy who was married once before and had two lovers. Basically, the little girl grows up without her mother, and one day she just shows up. Her grandmother is really sick and her mother kind of takes over. She even takes a piece of her flesh and feeds it to her mother to make her feel better. This, I thought, was a metaphor for giving a little bit of yourself, in the non literal sense of course, to help someone in need. Family is so important in this country, and it shows how they prioritize their family members before all else. The second story, the red candle, focused more on tradition. This girl is forced to marry a guy a matchmaker picked for her when she is sixteen and she has to move in with him and serve him as if she were a maid. Her family moves away from her and she must face all of this alone and helpless, labeled as a piece of property. She somehow finds away to escape all this, and manages to make everyone believe her marriage is cursed and that the guy is meant to marry someone else, who he does end up getting with. She on the other hand is allowed to leave the house and go search for her family. The final story, the moon lady, was about a mother and daughter relationship and how wishes to the said moon lady, were made as a tradition. Legends are mixed with their everyday encounters and stay with them forever, I didn’t really understand it. My favorite story however, was the one about the red candle. I found that it really captured the frustrations of having to do something you don’t want to and pretend to like it, and all in all had a lot of good metaphors.