December 14‚ 2013 Dear Suyuan Woo‚ Oh mother‚ why did it have to be you? I love you with all my heart. What could have caused you to die from a cerebral aneurysm anyway? You were always good at taking care of me‚ so I’m pretty sure you took good care of yourself. I’m just so sorry mommy I wish you could be here to listen. You were very strict and hard on me but now that you’re gone I see why. Before you left china you had to leave my two half sisters on the side of the road and I know that was extremely
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we are to understand the thoughts and actions behind their choices. “A Pair of Tickets” especially explores the relationship of setting to place‚ heritage and ethnic identity. Jing-Mei Woo‚ the main character and protagonist of the story‚ has trouble accepting that she is Chinese. Despite of her heritage‚ Jing-Mei Woo believed at the age of fifteen‚ that she has no Chinese beneath her skin. She believes she is Caucasian and her Caucasian friends also told Jing-Mei that “she was about as Chinese as
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unbridgeable gap between Chinese and American cultures. Amy Tan represented herself as Jing-Mei Woo in the novel. Her parents are both Chinese immigrants who raised her as a American. In her early teens‚ she learned that her mother had been married before in China. Just like Suyuan‚ Amy’s mother fled China‚ leaving behind her daughters. Amy and her mother argued about her college and career plans‚ like Suyuan wanting Jing-Mei to be a genius; in Amy’s case‚ to be a doctor. When her mother had a serious
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In “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan‚ two kinds of perspectives bring a new meaning to the ordinary American dream. Jing-Mei‚ the daughter of Suyuan Woo‚ a Chinese immigrant mother strongly believes in living the American Dream. In Order to live the life they wish Suyuan had hopes in fame. Their American fairytale to journey lavishly included an astonishing talent. They would practice mocking the famous Shirley Temple. As a mother and daughter they became partners by trying to make Jing-Mei have a talent that
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The first story based around Jing-Mei because it was her late mother that founded the Joy Luck Club. The book starts off with Jing-Mei’s mother Suyuan Woo dying and Jing-Mei getting asked to take her mothers place in the Joy Luck Club. The start of the Joy Luck Club was to bring together women to forget their painful pasts and to cheer them up. Suyuan thought of the idea of to make this club many years ago back when she lived in Kweilin and always told Jing-Mei the story. I quote "Over the years
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people thought Suyuan from Joy was based on her. She urged Tan to write the true story of her life. Though much of the book is fictionalized‚ Kitchen does contain the details of Tan ’s mother ’s life: her twelve-year-long bad marriage (she told Amy she might even kill her first husband if she ever saw him again); her life during the war; the children she lost. In her stories‚ Tan blends Eastern and Western
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her husband’s family. When she came to America Lindo wanted to have a prosperous Chinese American life. She quickly got remarried and had three children. She began going to the Joy Luck Club meetings to be around her friends. Her best friend‚ Suyuan Woo is the one who normally wins the games of Mah-Jong but all the women still have a wonderful time playing. As a devoted mother she wanted her children to be accustomed to the American culture and to excel at American things but she did not want
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In “Two Kinds”‚ Jing-mei woo is also known as June and her personality traits are illustrated throughout the story. June displays impatient tendencies. June does not allow the time it would take to become the creation her mother wants her to be. She asks her mother why she is not happy with her. In response‚ her mother slaps her and tells that she is ungrateful. Jing-mei is resentful towards her mother. Suyuan takes it upon herself to make Jing-mei into a piano prodigy. Jing-mei plots revenge in
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Jing-Mei Woo and Ralph are both the main characters in both of these novels they have characteristics in which are both very similar and very different. Both of these characters face certain struggles throughout the storyline and they must find a way to overcome them. Throughout each story line both Jing-Mei and ralph learn different lessons and they learn how to apply them to certain situations. In The Joy Luck Club the novel began with Jing-Mei’s‚ otherwise known as June‚ mother dying (Suyuan Woo)
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Her mother‚ Suyuan‚ longs for her to be a piano prodigy despite June’s obvious lack of musical talent. This causes June to question herself and triggers inner conflict. Tan uses metaphors‚ similes and imagery within her work to evoke many of the readers’ feelings and senses. Through figurative language Tan portrays Jing Mei “June” Woo’s character and inner conflict within The Joy Luck Club. Tan often uses metaphors to introduce character and inner conflict within Jing-Mei “June” Woo. In the following
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