Fate In Amy Tan's Half And Half

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“Fate brings people together no matter how far apart they may be.” This quote by a Chinese Proverb embodies how the Hsu household is brought together through the death of the youngest child in the family. In Amy Tan's story “Half and Half,” Rose comes to the realization that faith and “nengkan” can change fate; yet she now realizes “fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.” Rose had realized that through the use of “nengkan,” people can change their fate by actively resisting bad omens. Mrs. Hsu attributes their good luck to "faith," only she pronounces it "fate” and Rose comes to believe that it was fate, not faith, all along. Briefly after the death of Bing, Rose learns “that faith was just an illusion that somehow you’re

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