A generation is a group of people who live within the same age group or they can also be creations by the people older than you. There are many examples of generations, one, for example, could be trees. The trunk is the first generation. From the trunk grows the branches then after there are twigs and from those twigs there are leaves and the cycle continues growing. The characters build up characteristics as they grow up through the influence of their families, especially their parents, or through the things they learned throughout their life and apply those key ideas into their life.The mother, Lindo Jong, in the novel The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, talks about her life when she was younger before she came to America and raised her American-born
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On the day of Lindo and Tyan-yu’s marriage it was raining and Huang Taitai has tried to gather more people to attend their wedding but the Japanese had invaded China so there wasn’t much a possibility that people would attend. “I had on a beautiful red dress, but what I saw was even more valuable. I was strong. I was pure. I had genuine thoughts inside that no one could see, no one could ever take that away from me. I was like the wind.” (Tan, 53) When Lindo saw herself in the dress, she saw herself as a competent person in life who can overcome a lot of objects that block her path to turn her life into a fulfilling one. She also shows that nothing can bring her down from her own happiness. After Waverly got into a fight with her mom, she noticed that her mother didn’t polish her trophies everyday, cut small newspaper items with Waverly’s name, and never hovered over Waverly when she was practicing chess. Waverly felt that her mother had built and invisible wall while Waverly made that wall taller and wider. The next chess tournament Waverly had, she had lost the game and she didn’t see her mom with any emotion as if she was satisfied. “And I could no longer see the secret weapons of each piece, the magic within the intersection of each square. I could only see my mistakes, my weaknesses. It was as though I had lost my magic armor. And everybody could see this, where it was easy to attack me.” (Tan, 190) After Waverly has lost her chess game, she couldn’t see how each chess piece contained power that she used to see. She could only see her flaws and miscalculations within this game she had lost. Waverly saw herself as if she was more vulnerable towards other players and they could hit her easily. The American-born daughter Waverly did not inherit any strengths from her mother
On the day of Lindo and Tyan-yu’s marriage it was raining and Huang Taitai has tried to gather more people to attend their wedding but the Japanese had invaded China so there wasn’t much a possibility that people would attend. “I had on a beautiful red dress, but what I saw was even more valuable. I was strong. I was pure. I had genuine thoughts inside that no one could see, no one could ever take that away from me. I was like the wind.” (Tan, 53) When Lindo saw herself in the dress, she saw herself as a competent person in life who can overcome a lot of objects that block her path to turn her life into a fulfilling one. She also shows that nothing can bring her down from her own happiness. After Waverly got into a fight with her mom, she noticed that her mother didn’t polish her trophies everyday, cut small newspaper items with Waverly’s name, and never hovered over Waverly when she was practicing chess. Waverly felt that her mother had built and invisible wall while Waverly made that wall taller and wider. The next chess tournament Waverly had, she had lost the game and she didn’t see her mom with any emotion as if she was satisfied. “And I could no longer see the secret weapons of each piece, the magic within the intersection of each square. I could only see my mistakes, my weaknesses. It was as though I had lost my magic armor. And everybody could see this, where it was easy to attack me.” (Tan, 190) After Waverly has lost her chess game, she couldn’t see how each chess piece contained power that she used to see. She could only see her flaws and miscalculations within this game she had lost. Waverly saw herself as if she was more vulnerable towards other players and they could hit her easily. The American-born daughter Waverly did not inherit any strengths from her mother