Let It Go

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Lindo Jong is in a depressed state of her life. She is forced to marry a man she does not love and basically give up her life to Hung Tai-Tai. A particularly strong point in her life is when she realizes she is a strong woman with genuine thoughts and a will to keep her parents promise. The song, “Let It Go” by Idina Menzel beautifully describes everything that is going inside Lindo’s thoughts from the moment she is feeling useless and depressed continuing to her adept realization of her true character. At the end of page 57, the song would start right where Lindo starts to cry with the lyrics, “The snow glows white on the mountain tonight / Not a footprint to be seen, / A kingdom of isolation, / and it looks like I’m the Queen,” would be playing softly in the background. The song provides a very good example of self-pity, and this relates identically to Lindo’s situation where she is unhappy of …show more content…

I was strong. I was pure.” (Tan 58). The lyrics play, “Don’t let them in, don’t let them see / Be the good girl you always have to be / Conceal, don’t feel, don’t let them know / Well now they know, relates to Lindo’s new confident behavior about her character. The song continues playing flashing forward after her marriage to Lindo moments before blowing out the red candle, and finally the main chorus of the song plays, “Let it go, let it go, can’t hold it back anymore.” Lindo then blows out the candle, symbolizing her ultimate act of defiance to her marriage and Huang Tai-Tai. The song also can be used in another different scene in the red candle where Lindo finally devises a plan to break free of her prison at a later point in the story, and describes the difference in Lindo’s thoughts and feelings perfectly throughout “The Red

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