![]() Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. This is how a daughter honors her mother. An-Mei continues:Įven though I was young, I could see the pain of the flesh and the worth of the pain. Their children are also willing to sacrifice themselves to save their parents. It is not just mothers who are willing to sacrifice themselves to save their children. She cooked magic in the ancient tradition to try to cure her mother this one last time… (78)Įven though her family had shunned her for her actions, An-Mei’s mother still comes back and does the best she can to help restore her mother. My mother took her flesh and put it in the soup. Tears poured from her face and blood spilled to the floor. And then my mother cut a piece of meat from her arm. She put this knife on the softest part of her arm. And then I saw her pull up her sleeve and pull out a sharp knife. She was cooking a soup, pouring herbs and medicines into the steaming pot. I saw my mother on the other side of the room. This is when An-Mei sees a side of her mother that she will remember forever. However, when she learns that her mother is ill, she comes back home to find that her mother is near death. ![]() For example, An-Mei Hsu remembers her mother who, after her first husband’s death, had married a rich merchant, only to be shunned by her family and to live an unhappy life. While we may never know the “right” answer to these questions, it seems that mothers and daughters have built-in instincts to try to look after each other and to save each other. But it is an impossible question to be fully answered: What is the right way to be a mother? What is the right way to be a daughter? In the end, the daughters find out some things they knew about their mothers, but they do not completely come to understand the individual people that their mothers had been. There had been lives, dreams, and family members left behind, and yet, the women do not find the time or the opportunity to tell their daughters about themselves. Clair – do not understand these motives of their mothers, just as they do not fully understand who their mothers had been before they became mothers. Unfortunately, the daughters – Jing-mei Woo, Waverly Jong, Rose Hsu Jordan, and Lena St. Clair – want the same thing: they want their daughters to have much better lives that their own. ![]() This is what Mrs Lindo Jong, Waverly’s mother, says in The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, in a chaptered titled “Double Face.” All of the mothers in The Joy Luck Club – Suyuan Woo, An-mei Hsu, Lindo Jong, and Ying-Ying St. But I also knew if I named you after this street, soon you would grow up, leave this place, and take a piece of me with you.” (433) And I wanted you to think, This is where I belong. It was the name of the street we lived on. I wanted you to have the best circumstances, the best character. “I wanted everything for you to be better. The Connection Between Mothers and Daughters
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