What was the bone in her throat thing about?

I think she had an unusal experience with a chicken bone, but she took it the wrong way being a hypochondriac and all.

I always thought the chicken bone in her throat was a reference to Vada feeling a lump in her throat, like she is about to cry.

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No, someone had died from choking on a chicken bone. Everything she was dying of was a death she'd heard about from the funeral home.

At the end of the movie, she said she finally swallowed that chicken bone.

I belong to Jesus: my Lord, Savior, my eternity, my everything. I love you, Jesus!

She probably saw that one of her dads “clients” had died from choking on a chicken bone. Throughout the whole movie she was acting like she was dying because she was confused about death and I think she was trying to get her dads attention who didn’t talk to her because he either didn’t know what to do with her or talking about her mothers death was too painful. At the end she learned how to deal with death and her father opened up to her which is why she finally swallowed the chicken bone.

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The way I see this now as an adult is the bone in her throat was like “a lump in your throat.” You know when you are sad you feel like you have a big lump in your throat? She was denied attention from her dad, her grandma was mentally gone, death was all around her and girls her age teased her. I wouldn’t say she was depressed but maybe on the edge of it. She longed for attention even from her teacher.

As someone says at the end she says she finally swallowed it. She moved on with life, had a new step mom and working on being accepted by other girls her age.