“Lost Sister” by Cathy Song presents the universal struggle of women in finding who they are in society as observed in two different environments. The first half of the poem is in China and presents the women as united as sisters, but in the second half in America one sister becomes lost. Song is able to use inclusive terms such as sisters and they to show to juxtapose the you that both relate to the universal struggle i to create a helplessness to the poem that truly encompasses what a lost sister is. The poem begins by presenting women as sisters, using terms such as Jade, and “they” to unify them and describe them as one. The are first introduced as Jade; Jade is mostly used for decorative purposes such as jewelery, and here it is described
