In the beginning of the hero’s journey, the character is whisked into his or her’s new adventure. The character also has a vulnerability or weakness. Living in a village in China, Lindo Jong was only two years old when she was betrothed to Tyan-yu, the son of a woman named Huang Taitai. She was vulnerable in how she was female in the backward Chinese country, where she had no choice in her marriage. Once she was betrothed, her mother and family “began treating [her] as if [she] belonged to someone else” (Tan 51). The reason they acted as if she was not a part of their family was because they didn’t want to yearn for something that was no longer theirs. When heavy rains destroyed her family’s land, Lindo’s family left her to live with Tyan-yu