Everyone is given an opportunity, but not everyone takes it. The poem ¨Lost Sister¨ by Cathy Song, discusses how everyone is given an opportunity but some people chose limitation . Song is able to express these feelings of opportunities and limitation by writing about a Chinese woman who is trapped in her homeland and living the same traditional life .Than writes about another Chinese woman leaving her homeland, China, and traveling to America to create a new life. Song expresses the theme of opportunities, by using metaphors, imagery, and assonance. Cathy uses metaphors in the poem to show how women are viewed in China. Society in China views women as the stone jade, ¨the stone that in the far fields, could moisten the dry season, could
