“Your real mother - the one who looks like you, the one who has to love you because she grew you from her own body, the one who hates you so much that she dumped you in garbage for white people to pick up and dust off.” (Kim 63; 443) This sentence from Mothers, Lock Up Your Daughters Because They Are Terrifying highlights the complex feelings that Mini, Ronnie, and Caroline hold towards their families and identities. Although it's a line said by the narrator, this sentence communicates how the girls feel about their birth mothers, their adoptive families, and the confused relationships they have with their identities as Korean girls with white families. The ideas conveyed in this sentence also help explain the relationship that the girls end up having with Mom and what ultimately drives Ronnie to allow Mom to possess her at the end of the story. There are two distinct emotions expressed in the first and second halves of this sentence, which are displayed in the way the nar...