d luck do not mean the same thing to their daughters. . . . They see daughters who will bear grandchildren born without any connecting hope passed from generation to generation (31).
She promises the others to remember her mother and tell her sisters about their mother's life story and wonderful nature. The promise gives the others hope and sets in motion the beginning of her own spiritual connection with generations past and generations to come. It seems clear, however, that June is not at that point truly dedicated to "knowing" her mother, and, in any case, she certainly has no idea of what is in store for her. She does not understand the symbolic importance of the cultural practices followed carefully by her mother and the others, such as the meal her mother plans to cook for the meeting which she would have led had she not died:
She said the two soups were almost the same, chabudw
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