The experiences, events, and circumstances of one’s past do far more than merely add to their memory bank. As adaptive organisms, human beings naturally derive lessons from all instances that occur. Every facet of every individual requires a catalyst moment in order to form, and thus, the key to understanding another is to be aware of what they have been through. Keeping this rationale in mind, when analyzing June from Amy Tan’s “Joy Luck Club,” the reader can easily identify how her relationship with her mother, the way she was raised, and how the experiences she had along the way encouraged her into becoming the woman that she is. Through countless tales told across multiple eras, the relationship between a mother and her daughter is notorious
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Through Suyuan’s passing, June began to delve deeper into her mother’s rationale by investigating the loss of her previous children in Kweilin; in this, June concludes why her other was as overbearing and intense as she was in the first place. Never having the chance to provide the best life for her original babies, Suyuan was sure not to let her chances with June surpass them. She pounced upon every opportunity to accelerate her daughter to greatness because that was all she ever wanted – her child to have a good life and succeed, to make it. The fact that she did not know that her other children survived tortured her throughout her life, encouraging her to make the best she could for June, no matter how she protested. Her immense stubbornness was solely for her daughter’s sake; and in the absence of her mother, June realizes how genuine her interests really were. She accepts that she never turned out to be the prodigy her mother wished her to be since she made up for what she lacked in other ways that still meant a great deal to her mother. When conversing over a previous meal, the women exchange a profound moment: “My mother looked at me and smiled. “Only you pick that crab. Nobody else take it. I already know this. Everybody else want best quality. You thinking different.” She said it in a way as if this were proof – proof
Through Suyuan’s passing, June began to delve deeper into her mother’s rationale by investigating the loss of her previous children in Kweilin; in this, June concludes why her other was as overbearing and intense as she was in the first place. Never having the chance to provide the best life for her original babies, Suyuan was sure not to let her chances with June surpass them. She pounced upon every opportunity to accelerate her daughter to greatness because that was all she ever wanted – her child to have a good life and succeed, to make it. The fact that she did not know that her other children survived tortured her throughout her life, encouraging her to make the best she could for June, no matter how she protested. Her immense stubbornness was solely for her daughter’s sake; and in the absence of her mother, June realizes how genuine her interests really were. She accepts that she never turned out to be the prodigy her mother wished her to be since she made up for what she lacked in other ways that still meant a great deal to her mother. When conversing over a previous meal, the women exchange a profound moment: “My mother looked at me and smiled. “Only you pick that crab. Nobody else take it. I already know this. Everybody else want best quality. You thinking different.” She said it in a way as if this were proof – proof