“Ted and I met in a politics of ecology class when he leaned over and offered to pay me two dollars for last week’s notes. I refused the money and accepted a cup of coffee instead.” This is an example of an anecdote. Rose is telling a short story about meeting her husband and their marriage.
“As proof of her faith, my mother used to carry a small leatherette Bible when she went to the First Chinese Baptist Church every Sunday. But later, after my mother lost her faith in God, that leatherette Bible wound up under a too-short table leg, a way for her to correct the imbalances of life.” Here Rose is talking about her mother losing faith in God after her son died.
Today many people lose their faith after a tragedy occurs. Some decide that God would never let something so bad happen so they start to believe there is no God. Others blame God for what happened and turn their backs. Usually the time most people lose their faith is when they need God the most. That is what happened to Rose’s mother: after she lost her son, when she needed God's help, she stopped believing.
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