Lindo had lived a very unpleasant life in China. She had lost her family and the love of her mother at a very young age. At the age of two, a matchmaker came to Lindo’s house to make a match with her and the son of Huang Tai-tai, a one-year-old boy,named Tyan-yu. Lindo’s parents stopped treating her as their own daughter, but as Huang Taitai’s daughter. Lindo often saw the Huang family in festivals and at other places. When Lindo was twelve, a flood destroys most of her family’s property, leaving them flat broke.This left her parents no other choice but to leave her behind in Taitai’s house. Her mother warns Lindo not to be disrespectful.When Lindo arrives at the Huang house, she is treated like a servant, but she is single-minded to keep the …show more content…
Although they spoke different dialects, Lindo and Tin eventually got married. She also gave birth to a Child named Waverly. By reading this story of Lindo, I will give her the Chinese zodiac sign of a horse because, She managed to free herself justly (and devoutly) from a dreadful marriage, staying truthful to both herself and her parents’ wishes. She also used her cunningness to establish a second marriage, using an ideal fortune cookie. Part of Lindo’s personality is a certain self-indulgence, a demand for the best, and her genius mind knows how to balance that desire with, say, her parents’ promises, her own notion of respect for her elders, and her own inner voice. Lindo is one solid, complex woman. Her dominant character trait might just be her trickiness. These are just the right and unique characteristics of a horse zodiac sign. She is also very brave and fights the evils of her life with her cunning character.When we are talking specifically about her zodiac sign, she is an earth horse. The qualities of an earth horse are optimistic, kind-hearted, righteous, but irritable; with a strong sense of responsibility, and always ready to help
Lindo’s upbringing was significant because her family was very traditional. As a result of her family abiding by tradition, Lindo was betrothed to Tyan-yu as a young girl. Lindo’s family treated her as if she was from a different family. When Lindo’s family lost everything in a flood, her father decided to move the family to Wushi. Lindo was old enough to move in with Tyan-yu’s family, so her family left her in Taiyuan with her future in-laws. When Lindo moved in with her new in-laws, Huang Taitai immediately put Lindo to work cooking, cleaning, and sewing. Lindo not only lost her family by moving in with the Huangs; she also lost her childhood innocence since she was forced to abandon playing with other children so she could be put to work. As a child, Lindo faced adversity due to her lack of American opportunities and therefore matured quickly.
As she recalls back on this time by telling her daughter what she calls her Kweilin story, Suyuan describes her feeling during this horrible time as “And inside I was no longer hungry for the cabbage or the turnips of the hanging rock garden. I could only see the dripping bowels of an ancient hill that might collapse on top of me. Can you imagine how it is, to want to be neither inside nor outside, to want to be nowhere and disappear?” (22) At this point in her life Suyuan was separated from her husband who is in the military and eventually is forced to abandon her two young daughters. This aspect of Suyuan’s life parallels the life of Amy Tan’s mother. Daisy tan was also married to a military man during the Chinese Civil War and like Suyuan was forced to abandon her two daughters in Shanghai. This was an experience that would affect her mother for the rest of her life and a story she would continue to tell and never forget. The life of Amy Tan is also a parallel to the life of Jing-Mei Woo of “June”. As a young girl June was forced to play the piano and practice constantly to become the best like Amy Tan was as a child. Along with playing the piano Suyuan also had high expectations for June as far as her future. She wanted her daughter to be the best in her class and go off to medical school to become a well educated doctor, the same expectation’s Amy Tan’s mother had for her. Both daughters decided to follow their dreams and
He is way better than Appleby, as Appleby dehumanizes his slaves. Lindo in a way wants to help out the slaves and keep them as servants not slaves. In the end Lindo still has that same slave owning mentality, and thinks how white people are better than black people and that it is okay to own them. Lindo saved Aminata from the cruelty of Appleby, but he still ended up selling Aminata’s baby. Also treating Aminata bad after his wife had died, and taking her hard earned money even though Aminata could barely support herself shows that Lindo does not have upmost respect for slaves. He told Aminata about selling the baby after an entire year, which made it worse as she could only imagine what the baby was going through. Lindo is a hard character to define as he had both good and bad qualities such as slapping Aminata in the face, but later apologizing for his
However, their fortune is short-lived when bad omens rise because of Wang Lung’s insolent behavior towards his uncle’s family. Not only is their third child born a daughter, but a drought begins, preventing the land from cultivating and spreading both poverty and starvation through the North.
When she was a child in China, Lindo learned to harvest the powers of “invisible strength” to help her get out of her arranged marriage. This “invisible strength” helps Lindo keep a strong face even in desperate situations. By being silent and observe things closely, she is able to win arguments and earn the respect of people. Lindo first utilized this strength through the use of superstition; she was able to fool her mother-in-law at that time to force he way out of her miserable marriage. Not only that, she was able to keep her dignity intact and not disgrace or disrespect her family in
In the novel All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy, the author shows how important the roles of the horses are in the story and how they relate to John Grady, the protagonist of the novel. The horse has played an important role in the development of America. It has been a form of transportation, easy muscle, and companionship. In the Wild West, it was an essential resource for a cowboy to do his daily chores. McCarthy describes horses as spiritual and as resembling the human soul; meaning that horses came in many different forms. Horses are pretty, ugly, wild, tame, etc. in the story, they have so many different descriptions and different types of personality that they appear to resemble
In Lindo Jong’s narrative it becomes evident that Lindo and her daughter share a strength of self identity that allows them to stay true to their inner selves. Lindo had acquired her strength while getting out of a miserable selected marriage. “I... Looked in the mirror... I was strange. I was pure. I had genuine thoughts inside that no one could see. That no one could ever take away from me away from me. I was like the wind... I draped the large embroidered red scarf over my face and covered these thoughts. But underneath the scarf I still knew who I was. I
He makes predictions about the weather and what the future holds. (3) Not long into the novel, Horse is assimilated to quite an extent, and he is living the good life. Golden teeth in his mouth, he drives to church in his expensive, golden car. (11) And he is quite pleased with the ways his life have changed from his time as a more traditional foreteller who lived life like his ancestors had, before European influence.
This connection begins with the comprehension of her name and her sisters’ names. “Jing” means pure and “Mei” means little sister. Instantly Jing-mei feels more Chinese because she sees the connection she as to the language through her name. “Suyuan” means long cherished wish. With the understanding of her mother’s name, her feeling of connection to her Chinese heritage dramatically expands (Norton 190). She begins to piece the puzzle of her heritage together. By understanding the meaning of their names she begins to understand and accept her Chinese heritage. Her connection to her mother’s Chinese past is now much stronger than she had once realized.
Another contributor to the conflicts in these relationships is history. Both Lindo and Suyuan had remarkably different childhoods without most the opportunities their daughters have. The circumstances in which they grew up were much different yea their children have a difficult time understanding that.
Lindo was arranged to marry Tyan-yu. While the marriage was short-lived, Tyan-yu constantly lied to Lindo, and Tyan-yu’s mother treated Lindo like an object to be bartered between families. Lindo experiences depression being trapped in this lifestyle, so she decides to flee to America in order to escape it. When reminiscing on her marriage Lindo says, “I had no choice, now or later. That was how backward families in the country were. We were always the last to give up stupid old-fashioned customs” (Tan ). Similar to the mother in the beginning, Tan creates appeal to pathos, forcing the reader to sympathize with Lindo. The reader’s sympathy to Lindo allows Tan to expand on the larger issue of sexism, creating an emotional and educational tone in order to coax the reader into, again, understanding the true scale of sexism. Tan drilling this larger idea of sexism into readers changes the reader’s perspective. With new perspective, readers notice the need for change to establish equality between both sexes. Therefore, Tan is using her writing as a tool for a deeper subject: exciting change within the world, and thus, exemplifying Jong’s words.
Lindo was betrothed to her first husband at the age of two-years-old. She was never treated like she was part of her family, because they treated her like she belonged to her future husband’s family. The river near her house had overflowed and flooded her house, she was then forced to live at her future husband’s house. While she lived there
Her coming of age exemplifies the Bildungsroman topic of loss. Lindo heavily experiences loss for the first time when she is only two years old. She loses her freedom when the village matchmaker and sets her up with another little boy named Tyan-Yu. This is her first real loss in her life.
Unlike several of the other characters in The Joy Luck Club, Lindo Jong embodies the hero’s journey as first shown by the completion of the first stage: departure. Lindo begins her journey at the age of two when the village matchmaker arranges for her to be married to Huang Tyan-yu. Despite her lack of consent, Lindo recognizes and states that “even if I had known I was getting a bad husband, I had no choice, now or later” (Tan 51). Lindo grows up in the countryside of China, where all power over decisions is given to the parents. Should she face difficult hardships later on in her life, she does not have the authority to better her situation. Lindo’s weakness--which is her natural obedience to her mother in order to prevent her from “losing face”--in combination with her lack of choice in any matter will inevitably leads to trouble as she receives her call to adventure. Speaking of call to adventure, although Lindo began her journey ten years ago, she has yet to cross the threshold into her heroic venture. A natural disaster, however, changes that. At the age of twelve, her life completely changes when a flood “destroyed all the wheat [Lindo’s] family had planted that year and made the land useless for years to come” (Tan 53). Due to the flood,
Lindo’s upbringing was significant because she was raised during a time period in China where men and women did not have the power to choose who they could marry. As a result of this rule, Lindo was placed into a very unhealthy, arranged marriage which caused her family to treat her as if she did not belong to them. A treacherous flood destroyed Lindo’s home and her parents pushed her out of the door to live with her arranged family, this resulted in Lindo feeling abandoned by her closest family. Her arranged husband, Tyuan was son to Huang Taitai who treated Lindo like she was a servant since the day Lindo arrived at their home, she was never really considered apart of the family, instead she was used for work. For years leading up to the wedding of Tyuan and Lindo, she was forced to work like a servant and being treated like a piece of property but she realized even though Tyuan owned her body, he did not own her soul.