The title of Amy Tan’s story, “A Pair of Tickets”, hints to a lot of things. First of all, I assumed from the title that the story will most likely contain a journey-a start and a destination. After reading it, I realized this was true both figuratively and literally. Tickets, whether they are train tickets, airplane tickets or movie tickets, are used for allowance of entry into a particular place. The title also declares that this experience was being shared, because there was a pair of tickets. Travel also means change and I believe Jing-Mei was feeling that change as soon as she arrived in China. The first line of the story says, “The minute our train leaves the Hong Kong borders and enters Shenzhen, China, I feel different.” The
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She also used first person plural when referring to her family and their journey together. I found that the voice of the narrator was full of descriptive words and there were times when the narrator allowed her thoughts to run. Jing-Mei character was sensitive to the feelings of others and also a very wise lady, especially when she insisted that they reveal the truth about her mother’s death. It almost felt like a fairytale, except for the fact of the mother dying. The story was easy reading and I felt like I could identify with the feelings of belonging. It made me feel happy and relieved when Jing-Mei and her sisters …show more content…
When she first saw them as she walked off the plane, she thinks they look exactly like her mother. Later, she realizes they don’t look at all like their mother, but they still seemed familiar. She decides that the reason they seem familiar lies deep in the blood and the part of them that she recognizes is the Chinese. On page 276 in the 140th paragraph she thought, “And now I see what part of me is Chinese. It is so obvious. It is my family. It is in our blood. After all these years, it can finally be let go.” She understood what her mother had been trying to tell her. Our journey takes time and energy, but eventually it will go together like a
She also used first person plural when referring to her family and their journey together. I found that the voice of the narrator was full of descriptive words and there were times when the narrator allowed her thoughts to run. Jing-Mei character was sensitive to the feelings of others and also a very wise lady, especially when she insisted that they reveal the truth about her mother’s death. It almost felt like a fairytale, except for the fact of the mother dying. The story was easy reading and I felt like I could identify with the feelings of belonging. It made me feel happy and relieved when Jing-Mei and her sisters …show more content…
When she first saw them as she walked off the plane, she thinks they look exactly like her mother. Later, she realizes they don’t look at all like their mother, but they still seemed familiar. She decides that the reason they seem familiar lies deep in the blood and the part of them that she recognizes is the Chinese. On page 276 in the 140th paragraph she thought, “And now I see what part of me is Chinese. It is so obvious. It is my family. It is in our blood. After all these years, it can finally be let go.” She understood what her mother had been trying to tell her. Our journey takes time and energy, but eventually it will go together like a