The Funeral Singer Analysis

“The Funeral Singer” In this chapter, the reader experiences the different stories of these three women’s past, along with getting little glimpses of their present life. The way this chapter is written shows little short snippets of their life here in America while they tell of their past; which, most likely helps symbolize how these three women are dealing with their past and to what extent their past still influences their lives. Based on this, the ladies are reconciling with their past and finding console in each other to help move forward in an understanding and relatable setting. These three ladies spend fourteen weeks together, and the reader sees short clips of a single day that these women spend together once a week. Once they become acquainted, they tell short stories of how they have arrived in America, why they had to leave, and some of their past experiences, or family experiences, with the dew breakers. This short dialogue between the women stands to symbolize something greater. Not only that the women can only handle their past in short segments, but that there is healing in telling about it. This shows that trauma these women have faced in their lives can only be dealt with a little at time.
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They are moving on to “happier songs” with their “terrible days” behind them. Everyone’s future is unknown, and this quote could mean they do not know where their future is going to take them. These women may not know what the future holds, but they know they will move forward. When put in this degree of trauma, even though all three have incredibly different trauma, they overcome and try to better themselves. All three girls faced their pasts in these short little clips of dialogue. Their past does still and will always affect them, even once its been reconciled