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Dying/Dead Woman
The funeral guide is an elderly community member with knowledge of Hmong traditions. Kao’s family recruits him to lead Youa’s funeral rituals toward the end of the book. The funeral guide explains important aspects of Hmong spirituality. From his comments, the reader learns about the Hmong’s belief that after death, their spirits must travel backwards through all the places they’ve lived, ending in their ancestral lands in the mountains of Laos, where they can ascend to the clouds and unite with their ancestors.
Funeral Guide Quotes in The Latehomecomer
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Chapter 15
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The guide apologized at this point for no longer being able to take Grandma directly to each place where they had been during the five years in the jungle. He explained that after all, it had been a war, and they had been running for their lives, and their homes had been only made of banana leaves, stacked on top of small tree limbs. There would be no markers left. There was no way anyone could remember the many places they had hidden, one mountain cave or the next. He only wanted her to do her best.
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A woman alone, she carried us through with her guidance. Long after our father died, she taught us how to find lives in a world where life was hard to come by. She, a woman, taught us how to be men.
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Funeral Guide Quotes in The Latehomecomer
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Chapter 15
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The guide apologized at this point for no longer being able to take Grandma directly to each place where they had been during the five years in the jungle. He explained that after all, it had been a war, and they had been running for their lives, and their homes had been only made of banana leaves, stacked on top of small tree limbs. There would be no markers left. There was no way anyone could remember the many places they had hidden, one mountain cave or the next. He only wanted her to do her best.
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A woman alone, she carried us through with her guidance. Long after our father died, she taught us how to find lives in a world where life was hard to come by. She, a woman, taught us how to be men.
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