The Fateful Curse
Amy Tan’s, author of The Bonesetter’s Daughter, displays that family is stronger than power, love is wider than fields, the bonesetter is more broken than the bones he heals. This entire story is based inside the mind of Ruth Young, daughter to LuLing Young, and granddaughter to Precious Auntie. Each character's personality unveils as they enter their past, it begins with present Ruth, then moves to Ruth’s childhood, and in the end Lulings childhood and her interaction with her mother (Precious Auntie).To the Young family healing is more than physical it is emotional. The conflict between mother to daughter fractures them like bones- shattered, broken, and painful; yet with those ruptured pieces, they heal and sculpt themselves into strong women. No matter how broken, they may be, they will always heal and come unit to become stronger than steel.
The conflict happening in The Bonesetter’s Daughter …show more content…
She has told a story of family, love, faith, pain, and forgiveness; by displaying that no matter how broken something may seem the “bonesetter” can always fix it, the bonesetter symbolizing family being able to fix anything that breaks them so they may piece each piece back together making them wiser, stronger, and better prepared than before. To become stronger than power it takes a family to build up that strength, to expand the field with love it takes faith and trust to travel great lengths, to be the bonesetter it takes great knowledge on how broken the human heart can be yet still be able to heal others for the greater good of them so they may never feel the real pain a human heart can feel so they may never repeat the same mistakes so they may never, ever, ever, be able to have the knowledge on how much a human heart can break very close to extinction almost ripped off the face of the earth into “ethereal”(102) black