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I didn’t really like either of these stories all that much, but I did recognize some similarities between the mothers and daughters. I did like how the theme of wind repeated in Waverly’s story just like her mother’s. Wind was very significant in both of their stories. In Lindo’s it was what “blew out her husband’s end of the candle” and for Waverly it was the source of her skill. She said that when playing chess it was like the winds were blowing her pieces in the right directions, and whispering secrets in her ears. As for Lena’s story I didn’t really see that much of a point to it. I understand that in the story there were connections to wanting to be found, just like her mother, but in the end I think this story wasn’t really necessary for the rest of the book. I feel as though we didn’t need this story to recognize the connection and similarities between Ying-Ying and Lena. Like I said, I did see the connections between mother and daughter in this story. The neighbors Lena always heard fighting were sort of like her. The daughter would runaway and all she really wanted was to be found and all her mother really wanted was to find her, and they always did, and I think that’s sort of a metaphor to how Lena feels about her and her mother. All she wants is to be found and for her mother to want to find her, and for her to find her. The problem is Ying-Ying was never really found, so she didn’t pay attention, she didn’t know her daughter was “lost” and she didn’t know how to or that she needed to find her own daughter.