Our sense of family is always connected with our memories from the past and with places where we spent time with other family member. Thus, once lost, that sense of family is impossible to retrieve if without us recalling those past memories and being in the actually places we first receiving them. For instance, in “When the Emperor was Divine”, the members of the author’s family have lost the sense of kin and family when the father is separated, the mother and her children are grouped into an isolated internment camp. In there for a long time, the mother feels depressed and refuses to eat with her children, while sister spends time eating and hanging out with her friends, letting her brother eat alone in the mess hall. This scene is disheartening
