Reflection / Modification
Outline of the story
Originally, the story is base on a true story which happened in a village in the northeast of china. The story evolves around three families which were located in the north-east part of China. Haan is the main character in the story and the story goes on from her perspective in seeing this world. She suffers from mental illness that she can barely take good care of herself. Then, her parents thought it would be a good idea for her to get married that she will be taken care of even when they were gone. But things don’t go exactly what they wanted. The husband and Haan’s mother-in-law are so mad at her because of her abnormality and she is not able to bear children. The husband accidentally kills her and he finds a way of disposing the body yet be able to make money from it. He sells Haan’s body to a family which a son is recently deceased and fulfilled their wish in organizing a death marriage among the dead son and Haan. Haan was a girl who has been trying to live a happy life and bring happiness to the ones around her. But she never understands the reasons of why the ones around her are never cheered by her. She blames everything on herself. Until the moment of death, she doesn’t understand this world. But she does know that she has found something beautiful in this very world which kills her.
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