A Pair Of Tickets Analysis

June May’s Connection With Her Culture and Dead Mother in A Pair Of Ticket. Amy Tan is an American author of the novels who writes about Chinese American women and her experience with different cultures. Amy Tan was born on February 19, 1952, in Oakland, California. She grew up in California and in Switzerland. She studied English and linguistics at San Jose State University and the University of California. Amy Tan was a successful business writer, in 1987 when she took her Chinese immigrant mother to revisit China. Tan had difficulty accepting her Chinese heritage. She wanted to look like an American and wanted to be like an American. Amy Tan wrote, The Joy Luck Club, which contains many of her autobiographical elements from her life. “The Joy Luck Club,” explains the relationship between Amy and her mother. “A Pair of Tickets,” is the last chapter of, “The Joy Luck Club,” novel (Amy Tan Biography). …show more content…
June May was raised as a Chinese-American woman in San Francisco, California. After June May’s mother passed away she begins a journey of self-discovery to find her true Chinese roots. She wanted to fulfill her mother’s long cherished wish to visit china and meet her two twin daughters whom she has never met. The narrator uses symbolism and imagery in Amy Tan’s, “A Pair of Tickets,” to intricately weave the theme that June May is “Becoming Chinese” into each element of the story. We observe June May’s learning more about her mother’s lifelong dream, embracing it as her own. As she does, her own life blooms into spring