My favorite character from “Feathers from a Thousand Li Away” was An-mei Hsu. The main problem An-mei faces in the text is that she is subservient, and easily influenced, Her her naïveté hinders her from seeing the lies her family told, and realizing that her mother is not an evil bad woman. An-mei has good intentions when it came to listening authoritative figures in her life, that’s one of her admirable characteristics. However, she was influenced to be subordinate no matter what. She lived in fear in order not to become a wayward insubordinate girl like her mother, or the girl with the melon in her belly. Despite, the cock-and-bull stories told by her grandmother, and other family members An-mei starts to think for herself and see that
