lost sister (old).

When we read the poem lost sister, to me one quote stood above all the rest. "you find you need china: your one fragile identification, a jade link handcuffed to your wrists. You remember your mother who walked for centuries-and like her you have left no foot print". this shows that the girl misses her home and since she left, she no longer has any ties to her old life in china no matter how much she may want it back. the last part that states "and like her, you have left no foot print" can also mean that since she left, everyone in china who used to know her, no longer remembers her and they all act like she never existed. This quote shows a lot of feeling, in the first part, "you find you need china; your one fragile identification" it shows that the girl doesn`t really know who she really is anymore since she left and she wants and needs to return to her home to find out. Since she left china, she no longer has her "one fragile identification" and she wants it. "a jade link handcuffed to your wrists" also gives off the impression that you can never truly escape china until you completely destroy the "jade link handcuffed to your wrists" and leave. This quote means that, like i said, the girl no longer has any ties to china and feels like a part of her is missing since she left.