The Moon Lady Character Analysis

Sing Down the Moon, a book written by Scott O’Dell is about a young Navajo girl named Bright Morning who is tending her flock of sheep with her friend, Running Bird, when they spot Spanish slavers coming toward them. They are both captured and taken to a village. There they are sold to different families as servants. Running Bird and Bright Morning later escape with another Native American servant, Nehana. Soon after returning home to their tribe, the Long Knives make everyone leave their homes, and take almost nothing other than water and food. Suddenly the Navajo tribe is ambushed by the Long Knives and forced to walk to an Apache/Navajo reservation.

A Raisin in the Sun, play by Lorraine Hansberry depicts the life of the Younger family. Youngers is an African American family living in Chicago in 1950s, they are struggling for money. As the play proceeds, they run into a plenty of problems. The younger family is slowly tearing apart. Ruth younger the wife of Walter Lee Younger is holding the family from ripping apart. Ruth is the person who supports everyone in the family. Ruth's capability of thinking through and beyond with her fearless and rational nature makes her mature, selfless and loving women.

The Joy Luck Club is Amy Tan's first novel. It consists of four sections with sixteen short stories. One of the main issues of the novel is the relationship between Chinese mothers and their Chinese – American daughters. ‘‘Your mother is in your bones.’’ (Tan 1998, 30) There is a cultural chasm between them because of the difference in the way they were brought up and different influences of the environment.

As long as evil existed unchecked in the town, it was Miss Strangeworth's duty to keep her town in check.In the story, “The Possibility of Evil”,by Shirley Jackson,the author addresses the ideas of a lady who writes letters to people telling them their evil in hope of them changing without the person knowing it is her who is writing the letters.Miss Strangeworth’s has a lot of characteristics,there’s only three that I would be able to describe her as organized,clever,and cruel.

There is a common theme of hope throughout the stories of The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. Even in the face of immeasurable danger and strife, the mothers and daughters in the book find themselves faithful in the future by looking to the past, which is only helped by the format of Tan’s writing. This is shown specifically in the stories of Suyuan and Jing-Mei Woo, Lena and Ying-Ying St. Clair, and Lindo and Waverly Jong. The vignette structure of The Joy Luck Club allows the stories to build on one another in a way that effortlessly displays both the happy and dark times in each mother’s life, which lets their experiences act as sources of background and guidance to their daughters in times when they need it most.

Furthermore, the author explores the tone of the novel by providing specific details. In An-mei's childhood story, the author chooses to describe the pain An-mei feels as the soup pours over her by providing details of the twinge. She describes it as "the kind of pain [specially] terrible that a little child should never remember it" and how it still remains "in [An-mei's] skin's memory" (Tan 39). By depicting these details of the pain, Tan expresses the feeling of misery An-mei feels, which appends to the melancholy tone. Additionally, in the story of Ying-ying's first marriage, the author presents explicit details of the emptiness Ying-ying feels by portraying details of her as "a tiger that neither pounce[s] nor lay[s] waiting between the trees" and "an unseen spirit" (Tan 285). This emptiness Ying-ying feels seems to indicate the melancholy tone that appears noticeable in the novel. Clearly, the details Amy Tan chooses to describe in the novel seem to specify the somber tone.

In the short story “Two Kinds”, Amy Tan uses the narrator’s point of view to share a mother's attempt to control her daughter's dreams and ambitions. Tan`s short story is an example of how differing personalities cause struggles between a parent and child. Children often fall victim to a parent trying too hard or expectations being too high, and in the case of "Two Kinds," we see Jing Mei’s mother trying to live her life through that of Jing Mei. The outcome of her mother’s actions soon leads the narrator into feeling tension within herself, and between herself and her mother.

Jackie is an elite distance runner when no one else in her family has this trait is because she has a different combination of gene versions. Evidence card D states "she ran sprints three days a week, but her sprint times were nit very good, and she never won any races." This evidence supports the claim 2 and refutes claim 1 because even though she did train, she was not very good. Based on the he evidence I could conclude that Jackie's running ability did not have to do with training. Another piece of evidence is on card B, it states that Lincoln has a gene version combination of A1 and A1 which points to the result of Jackie's mother having A1 is one of her gene versions. This is important bad use when you inherit genes from your

To be lost is to lose all hope. To lose all your aspirations. To surrender all your dreams. Just because your lost, it doesn’t mean that you will not be found. In Amy Tan’s “The Moon Lady,” Ying- Ying, the main protagonist, fights with herself and with her culture. Ying-ying is longing to be found — to be reunited with her family — and with herself. At a youthful age, Ying-ying’s childish belief in personal fate and destiny later on led to a rule of passivity and listlessness. Ying-ying realizes that she has passed on to her daughter the same indifference and passivity that she has experienced growing up. Just like a broken bond, Ying-ying tries to sew her life back together, but she uses her past pains to tear it again. Tan argues that just because the strands of your life are torn, it doesn’t mean that you can’t sew your life together again.

In Chapter two of Night, by Elie Wiesel there is a story involved following around a woman, Mrs. Schachter, who had lost her mind, to empathize how quickly the prisoners are changing. The section involves the people from the ghetto on a cattle car together, and since they were from the ghetto together most of them already knew each other which helped demonstrate the sudden change in demeanor. Wiesel mentioned; “I knew her well. A quiet tense woman with piercing eyes, she had been a frequent guest in our home” (Wiesel 24). This illustrates how Mrs. Schatcher changed on the ride, and how she became an entirely new person it seems. Even though Mrs. Schatcher went hysterical, not everyone else on the cattle car did. Some tried their best to stay

In the story “A Secret Sorrow”, a woman by the name of Faye is battling a traumatic accident. The reference of the car accident sets the reader up for the tone of the story. In the beginning of chapter 11, Faye is very fragile woman. Something is making her feel distraught. When reading the first sentence “feel the blood drain from her face” (Van Der Zee 28) and “thought she was going to faint” (28), its not clear what permanent internal injury Faye has, as stated in the preface. In the following few paragraphs the author wrote, “clutched at him for support, fighting for control” and “legs were shaking so badly”. These descriptive statements of

The Moon Festival is a very important day. Ying-ying remembered when it was her first time attending the festival, her nursemaid would tell her to keep her mouth closed. But, she was to curious and ended up banned from the festival. (41)

While Watchman and Raisin come from different backgrounds they are similar because they take place during the same time period that deals with gender roles and family. During this time in the 1950’s it was not usual for the women to stay home and the men be the head of the house. Although when times were rough family is always there for support.

What the role of a women should be was another point of conflict between the mothers and daughters. In the first anecdote on page 17, Tan tells the story of a Chinese women coming to America who dreams that “over there nobody will say her [daughter’s] worth is measured by the loudness of her husband’s belch.” This quote shows that the traditional view of women in China is that they should serve their husbands and families, and that they don’t deserve freedom. Ying-Ying St. Clair found herself conforming to this stereotype, saying that “[she] was pretty for [her husband].” (Tan 247). Not only did Ying-Ying have to listen to her husband, she began to embrace it and only serve her husband, without any regard for herself. When he left her to marry a younger women, she realized that she had been wasting away her life. She waited four years, until she was able to run away to America, where she gained her freedom. However, her daughter, Lena, was born with these rights that she had worked hard to gain. Lena talks about her husband, saying, “really, we’re equals, except that Harold makes about seven times more than what I make.” Harold is also her boss, despite the fact that they originally started their company together. Ying-Ying realizes that Lena is becoming submissive to her husband, much the way she did. Ying-Ying wants to “cut [Lena’s} tiger spirit loose” (Tan 252), but Lena refuses to listen, not realizing that her

Providing the two heroines with strong and engaging personalities, the novel portrays the life of two young Chinese girls, who because of historical events and family secrets, have to grow up faster than what they had planned. The book delivers emotional themes that are powerful yet familiar, and is written in a compelling manner.