Rie In Ogawa's Analysis

Aya describes Rie as, “At a year and five months, Rie was the youngest child at the Light House” (Ogawa 24). Aya is jealous of Rie because Rie receives all the attention from her parents. Aya tortures Rie by placing her into an urn and listens to her cry (Ogawa 27). Aya mentions, “Inside, the urn was cool and damp. She flailed about, screaming at the top of her lungs. Her cries came pouring up and into me like a stream of molten