Lost Sister Cathy Song Analysis

“Lost Sister,” by Cathy Song presents the universal struggle that women face in finding who they are in society as observed in two different environments. The difference in environments helps Song's initial sense of helplessness created by using China and the inclusive term they as what is familiar and safe, and juxtaposes it with the use of you that creates a loneliness in the unfamiliarity that America represents in order to focus on lost and sister in correlation to these environments; however, it's through awareness that Song also presents hope in this poem. The poem begins by presenting women as sisters. Sisters, is a close unifying term that turns them from individual women into a collective they. They are first introduced as being