Nowadays, books aren’t as popular as they use to be, which is unfortunate for countless of reasons. For, a great amount of books & stories, if not all, teach us beneficial and important aspects of life. As a matter of fact, The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan, is a wonderful example. In this novel Tan shows how these four mothers come to America with an interesting past who have their daughters grow up in America. Tan shows how these moms are focused and influenced by their daughter’s decisions, and in the process the mothers learn their daughters can 't be everything they want them to be, to respect their choices, and the mom’s each learn to accept them for who they are because they can’t change them. As stated recently, the moms realize
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Suyuan is forcing Jing-Mei to be a prodigy, but a prodigy is someone with natural talent, so you can 't force someone to be a prodigy of some sort if it isn 't something that comes natural to them. Suyuan doesn 't quite understand this, and it’s frustrating to Jing-Mei. Suyuan has Jing-Mei go to a piano teacher, so she can learn piano. Jing- Mei isn 't talented with any piano skills, yet her mom had her play the piano in a talent show in which was embarrassing because Jing-Mei had no idea what she was doing. Her mom was disappointed, but Jing-Mei thought that finally her mom would quit trying for her to be something she 's not. …show more content…
Going back to Lindo and Waverly, Waverly had thought the whole time her mom hated Richard. She had assumed this because whenever she would bring up the subject, her mom would quickly change it or seem like she didn’t want to talk about it. However, that was just one way of looking at the situation. After Waverly had told her mother about the marriage and began to question her “You never want to talk about him. The other day, when I started to tell and Shoshana at the Exploratorium, you...you changed the subject...you started talking about Dad’s exploratory surgery and then…” Lindo responded “What is more important, explore fun or explore sickness?” and later in the conversation Lindo also says “Ai-ya, why do you always think these bad things about me?....so you think your mother is this bad. You think I have a secret meaning. But it is you who has this meaning, Ai-y! She thinks I am this bad!” (181). Waverly was assuming the worst out of her mother, she thought the whole time her mom was always avoiding the subject because she didn’t want to talk about it, or because she hated Richard when she had no problem with Richard at all. From when Waverly was young and a chess prodigy, Lindo had learned to accept her daughter for what she was. She knows she can’t change her or have her be what she wants her to
Suyuan is forcing Jing-Mei to be a prodigy, but a prodigy is someone with natural talent, so you can 't force someone to be a prodigy of some sort if it isn 't something that comes natural to them. Suyuan doesn 't quite understand this, and it’s frustrating to Jing-Mei. Suyuan has Jing-Mei go to a piano teacher, so she can learn piano. Jing- Mei isn 't talented with any piano skills, yet her mom had her play the piano in a talent show in which was embarrassing because Jing-Mei had no idea what she was doing. Her mom was disappointed, but Jing-Mei thought that finally her mom would quit trying for her to be something she 's not. …show more content…
Going back to Lindo and Waverly, Waverly had thought the whole time her mom hated Richard. She had assumed this because whenever she would bring up the subject, her mom would quickly change it or seem like she didn’t want to talk about it. However, that was just one way of looking at the situation. After Waverly had told her mother about the marriage and began to question her “You never want to talk about him. The other day, when I started to tell and Shoshana at the Exploratorium, you...you changed the subject...you started talking about Dad’s exploratory surgery and then…” Lindo responded “What is more important, explore fun or explore sickness?” and later in the conversation Lindo also says “Ai-ya, why do you always think these bad things about me?....so you think your mother is this bad. You think I have a secret meaning. But it is you who has this meaning, Ai-y! She thinks I am this bad!” (181). Waverly was assuming the worst out of her mother, she thought the whole time her mom was always avoiding the subject because she didn’t want to talk about it, or because she hated Richard when she had no problem with Richard at all. From when Waverly was young and a chess prodigy, Lindo had learned to accept her daughter for what she was. She knows she can’t change her or have her be what she wants her to