An Explanation Of Mah's Story

After Jing- mei finishes telling this story she goes into how she is nervous to take her mother’s place in the club. She also shares that while she was in the club meeting the other members received a letter from her half-sisters because her mother was trying to locate them before she passed away. The group gives Jing-mei money to travel to china and tell her sisters their mother’s story.

Many failed attempts and a highly disappointed mother later, Jing Mei realizes that the only thing that she wanted was to be her own person. She soon finds out that to do this she must rebel against her mother. Jing Mei gets so caught up in rebelling that she loses sight of what was originally the most important thing to her. This leads her on a deconstructive path of not giving full effort. Jing Mei thought that her mother was the only thing keeping her from reaching her full potential, while it was really her the entire

When Jing Mei recognizes the similarities between her mother and herself she begins to understand not only her mother but herself as well. There are subtle connections and likenesses from the beginning between Jing Mei and her mother that Jing Mei does not see. The book commences with Jing Mei taking her mother's place at the mah jong table, creating a similarity between them from the beginning. Suyuan dies two months before the start of the book, and therefore is not able to tell the stories. Jing Mei has learned and must tell her stories in her place, forming another parallelism between mother and daughter. Because Suyuan is dead, Jing Mei must act in place of her mother when she goes to meet her Chinese sisters in China. Throughout the book Jing Mei takes the place of Suyuan, showing she and her mother

For instance, after Jing-Mei’s disastrous performance, unexpected by her mother, she waits for the shouting to begin, but instead there are “no accusations, no blame,” which disappoints Jing-Mei because she wishes to “shout back and cry and blame her for all [her] misery” (Tan 105). The unfortunate talent-show fiasco provokes Jing-Mei’s mother to have an unexpressive look, acting as though she has lost everything, when in fact she has misplaced too much hope in her daughter’s success. Jing-Mei finds her mother’s arduous ambition the reason for her dilemma of discovering “her own sense of personal identity" and “it is out of defiance against her mother” that further weakens their conflicting relationship (Brent). Moreover, as Jing-Mei refuses to continue with piano lessons, shouting that “[she’ll] never be the kind of daughter [she] wants [her] to be,” her mother tells her that there are “only two kinds of daughters…those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind” and that only the obedient daughter “can live in this house” (Tan 106). Jing-Mei decides not to conform to her mother’s wishes and for the first time, she articulates her resistance and emphasizes the emergence of her true identity. Jing-Mei ultimately experiences a “release of anger toward her mother,” in which she becomes “relieved of the burden of her

June wants to learn more about her mother and her culture with the added pressure of meeting Suyuan’s lost daughters in China. She starts to embrace the Chinese culture and is excited to eat a traditional Chinese meal, even though she does not get the chance (page 278). She also asks her father more about Suyuan’s time in China and the meaning of her name (page 280). When June finally meets her sisters, they murmur, “‘Mama, Mama’” (page 287). June finally feels a connection with her mother and with her Chinese background. Therefore, June’s character developed because of her mother’s passing.

2. Although Jing Mei is too young to know what was her mother’s real thought, she gives a clear description of what her mother said, did, how she did it. Some

Her mother and the man develop feelings for each other. However, the mother decides not to accept the love because then Ok-hui cannot get a good husband due the social judgment and disapproval. She is willing to sacrifice her own interest for her daughter to have a better future. Ok-hui’s perspective presents the reader with an unbiased view of the world and her naïveness brings peace to the mind and makes the book a breeze to read.

The strong determination that both Jing-Mei and her mother possess lead to two strongly different views on the life Jing-Mei desires to live. Jing-Mei’s mother wants her daughter to be a perfect child and have a successful life. She pushes her to be someone that Jing-Mei has no desire to be. Jing-Mei longs to be an ordinary child and live a normal life. She does not wish to have her mother pushing her to do tasks that are impossible for her. Jing-Mei hates to let her mother down, but she later becomes frustrated and says that she will not allow her mother to transform her. She says that she will be the ordinary child that she dreamed of becoming.

The narrator was very inquisitive about the details of the aunt, however, her mother told her once and for all the useful parts, which left much to the narrator’s imagination. Since the narrator is allotted the opportunity to recreate her aunt’s life, some aspects involved Chinese traditions while some touched on the narrator’s experience in America. To

Jing Mei Woo is the daughter of Suyuan and Mrs. Woo who has just lost her mother and is looking for her twin half sisters lost in China and who buys two tickets to go after them. On this search for her sisters, Jing Mei Woo discovers many parts of her family, especially things about her mother that she did not know but that she had listened to. The stories told of Jing Mei’s mom remind her of the past but she did not take it very seriously. The closeness with her father's family, the feeling of a family's happiness, the affection and that you can count on them makes her doubt if she really wants to feel that emotion. In the story “A pair of Tickets” by Amy Tan the character Jing Mei Woo evolves over the course of the narrative due to the passing of her mother. At the beginning Jing Mei is not very connected to her chinese heritage however after journeying to her homeland she going a sense of belonging.

The Women's Movement was growing strong during this period of the story. Throughout the play, Lorraine uses the characters as a way to follow the struggles and harshness of an African American family's yearning to realize the American Dream. Along this hard road comes the importance of togetherness and family harmony, which Mama is finally able to instill upon Walter. The house enables them to fulfill their father's hard work and determination. Which is the “American Dream”. They achieved his "American Dream" even after his death. The characters of Mama, Walter, and Beneatha all have their differences, but in the end, unity prevails in the family, and the struggles faced by the family are nothing if they only work together and understand each one's wants and

(Tan, 550). Even though the mother wants Jing Mei to succeed and live the American dream, she gets upset when Jing mei adopts american individualism and stands up for herself. By rebelling from her mother’s expectations, Jing Mei is rejecting Chinese customs and becoming more “American”. Critic, Amy Ling, attributes this behavior to “possessiveness of chinese mothers who fight the American style liberation and autonomy their daughters cultivate" (Snodgrass, 115) Amy Tan had similar problems with her mother. Because her mother was so hard on her, she blamed it on her culture and rejected the Asian side of her own heritage.

Kang’s “grandfather used to be the leader of a big People’s commune….[and Kang’s] father has become one of the top agricultural entrepreneurs in northern China” (Li 13). Coming from such a prestigious background, Kang is rejected by the other kids because he comes from a wealthy family; whereas, the other kids come from families of average social statuses. In a way, though wealthiness can give one happiness, Kang does not feel happiness since he is being rejected by the other kids. The dorm mothers also call him the “son of a disfavored wife” (Li 13). Kang’s mother is just one of his father’s many concubines, and they assume since she “is no longer needed in the family,” he should also be treated as an extra (Li 13). Therefore, when Granny Lin discovers this little boy at Meimei Academy, she looks for him amidst crowds and wants to learn more about him because he, like her, has been susceptible to social injustice by others. Kang has sparked Granny Lin’s curiosity because “the thought of [Kang], who is so small and occupies almost no space at all in the world yet who is still in other people’s way and has to be got rid of, saddens Granny Lin” (Li 13). Essentially, Granny Lin has faced many experiences with social injustice, but to see a little boy face a similar case of rejection that she had experienced with the factory and Old Tang makes her see Kang as an extra, like her.

Niang is the second wife of Adeline’s father and stepmother of Adeline and her four old siblings. Niang is married to father one year after the death of Adeline’s mother, at the age of seventeen. She is represented as a cold, aggressive and materialistic woman who displays a domineering and apathetic attitude toward Adeline. Consequently, Adeline’s relationship with her stepmother Niang is full of conflict and heartache. Niang’s angry behaviour is evident in ‘I am asking you a question!’ she reminded me angrily. ‘Where does this come from? I order you to answer me now!’ when Adeline came home early from Wu Chun- mei birthday party. Yen Mah’s representation of Niang’s angry attitude toward Adeline positions the reader that she is showing a very

In the middle of the book, Seh stumbles upon a bandit group along with Malao and Fu. After, Seh meets a his father, Mong, and his mother, AnGesehen, in the bandit hideout, but then they are attacked by Ying’s men.Together all of the bandits join together to fight, but they are no match for the quiangs. Later on they leave to go to Shaolin to find their sister, Hok, and along the way find a cannibalistic restaurant where they are the menu. After Seh cleverly realizes the food came too fast, he quickly escapes with Fu.After, the adventure continues as Hok’s story i to be told from her perspective..