Day 4

Crying in H Mart Lesson Plan

Discussion of Thought Questions

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    Why do Peter and Zauner go to the orchard after Chongmi dies? What explanation does Zauner propose?

    Zauner and Peter drive to Detering Orchard after Chongmi dies. Zauner doesn't completely know why they do this, but she speculates, writing, "I wonder in retrospect if I was drawn there because it was a place to which my mother was specifically not attached...Maybe I wanted to go there because it was a place where I could pretend that my mother was still alive, waiting for me at home." Students should consider both the ways in which this explanation is moving and logical as well as the fact that we sometimes don't know why we do things in times of grief, hence why Zauner...

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