Confessions

I thought Amy Tan's essay, "Confessions" was a very heavy, very dark subject for her to bring to light. By the way she explains it in the story, she had a very troubled youth. Starting with the consecutive deaths of her father and brother, there is a deep, traumatizing sense of sadness instantly in this story. I could only imagine the hurt that those two deaths would cause me and the rest of my family, that's something nobody should have to experience in such a short period of time like that. However, the darkest and heaviest part of the story is most definitely the conflict she has wither mother, in which she proclaims that she'd rather have had the narrator dead than both her son and husband. And then as if those words couldn't cut a deep enough wound into her psyche, her mother in a heinous and crazy act of some form of depression I could not ever comprehend, puts a meat cleaver to her 16 year-old-daughter's neck all the while threatening to kill her. Very tough subject to even think about, let alone put into writing.