action and thought that cannot be eliminated completely. A person is most influenced by what they are constantly around. For Jing Mei in “A Pair of Tickets”, growing up in America kept her from experiencing and truly accepting her Chinese culture. It is not until her mother dies that she and her father travel to China to reconnect with family. “A Pair of Tickets” tell of a woman who travels to China to experience her mom’s long cherished wish, and
The short story “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” is about an old woman who is haunted by her past memories. She was afraid that God would abandon her after death the same way she was left at the altar on her wedding day. This is a good story to read overall because it has many life lessons including to not let past mistakes ruin our future lives. Although, this old woman was haunted about many memories, she did succeed in life by getting married with someone else and had children. In short, the
A Pair of Tickets: Finding Identity Amy Tan’s, A Pair of Tickets, focuses on a girl who goes to China in search for her two long-lost sisters. The story follows Jing-Mei in her venture of going to her homeland for the first time, while feeling no connection to the Chinese culture. In this short story, Tan uses setting to illustrate the protagonist, Jing-Mei’s journey to self-discovery. Through going throughout her whole life not feeling Chinese, this journey served as an important growing factor
Aspects of Life Taken for Granted Children nowadays are known for taking things for granted. Who would have to know that fictional children ranging from the 1970’s to the late 1980’s would too? In “Everyday Use,” by Alice Walker and in “A Pair of Tickets,” by Amy Tan, both authors explore the lack of appreciation of at least one of their main characters. Walker and Tan display different ways that the main characters take the symbolic things in their stories for granted and how both main characters