The characters in the joy luck club all try to make peace when trying to translate ideas from …show more content…
Jing mei who went back go back to china to find her true chinese heritage “it's even become fashionable for american born chinese to use their chinese names(37)”. By keeping their chinese name they remember their heritage and accept it. Even though this was not always the case she has grown to to become more jovial about her life and about her culture after her mother's death.
Symbolism “jing mei called the jade pendant her mother,suyuan gave her life's importance”(197) First jing mei found the jewelry peace unstylish “the pendant was not a piece of jewelry i would have chosen for myself” (197) This pedant represented the cultural differences between her and her mother .This view of jing mei changes when suyan died “i now wear the pendant everyday”(197) and the pendant became a symbol of her mother's love and concern for her the whole