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first is Ruth, who is a Chinese born in America. The second is her mother LuLing, who was born in China, but later emigrated to America after the World War II. The third is Precious Auntie who is the daughter of a bonesetter.The main theme throughout The Bonesetter 's Daughter is the importance of communication in relationships, and how without communication, relationships suffer. The conflicts such as oppression and identity crisis play a key role in developing the female characters in the novel. Tan discusses this theme in several different ways, through: Mothers, daughters and spouses…

Sophi Peppin Mrs. Kulm College Literature April 20, 2024 The Mother-Daughter Relationship Between LuLing Liu Young and Ruth Luyi Young According to migrationpolicy.org, Chinese immigrants still represent the third largest origin group among U.S. immigrants (after those from Mexico and India), accounting for 5 percent of the 45.3 million immigrants in the United States as of 2021”. In the book The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tan, Ruth is the daughter of a Chinese immigrant, and her name is…

In The Bonesetter’s Daughter, which takes place partly in modern-day San Francisco and party in China during World War II, Amy Tan intertwines the two stories of a mother, LuLing Young, and her daughter, Ruth Young, to describe how they struggle with understanding each other while confronting issues from their own pasts. Ruth finds her mother’s old Chinese superstitions annoying and had difficulties connecting to her heritage; as she attempts to integrate into her boyfriend Art’s family, she…

Bonesetter’s Daughter, the idea of “home” has considerably influenced the minds of the main characters, Ruth and LuLing Young. Despite not growing up with her and her mother’s culture, Ruth still to attempts be apart of it and make sure to understand what her mother grew up with. As an American-Chinese citizen, Ruth tries to helplessly to relearn and reconnect with her Chinese past through her mother’s agonizing battles, written in a series of journal entries that LuLing had documented, in…

a disgrace in the family. The first daughter-in-law claims the baby as hers and comes to be known as “Mother” to LuLing. Although LuLing has Mother, it is Precious Auntie who raises her. It is these…

the mouth that took her ability to speak. She would use hand gestures and hisses to communicate. Precious Auntie would always protect LuLing since it was believed that the curse would follow her, and at one point of her life, LuLing believes it finally had when Ruth fell on the playground and lost her voice herself with the impact and, “...precipitated an earlier bout with speechlessness. When her mother LuLing devised a sand tray for Ruth to write her requests upon, LuLing suddenly interpreted…

relationships through identity and word. Ruth Young, the protagonist, struggles with comprehending the actions of her mother, LuLing, from her youth and present, of which an Alzheimer’s diagnosis exacerbates those behaviors. At the same time, her relationship with Art, her lover, strains while attempting to establish herself to him and his children. The narrative then switches to LuLing herself, sending the reader back to her childhood and her conflicts with her own mother, Precious Auntie, and…

discontent—an emotion that our family never intended to catalyze. With their limited language, both my brother and LuLing endeavor to make sense of a world that struggles to make sense of them. Though Ruth and I are fortunate enough to find freedom, ease, and passion in our words, we both choose to use our power to help our dear ones find their voices, even at the expense of our own. Passage: “Did people disappear? Become invisible? Why did dead people become stronger, meaner, sadder? That’s…

As we read this part Ruth and Luling lack of communication began when Ruth was just a teenager. Both of them never seemed to want to talk to each other about their problems and Ruth refused to go to her mother for help when she needed it since her mother constantly put her down even though she didn't mean to. Therefore, this affects Ruth as she grows older for example Ruth refuses to talk to her husband about how she believes she's pregnant, "Lance didn’t love her. If she told him, he would hate…

‘What does that say?’ I ask my mother quietly. ‘Hope that your next life is long and prosperous (42).”’ Pearl has never gone to China. She has only seen a few images of it from various resources, despite that it is the country of her ancestors. She doesn’t even know how to identify a signal character in the Chinese alphabet, let alone being able to read fragments of it. In The Bonesetter’s daughter, it’s difficult for LuLing to get her daughter to even visit her because Ruth believes that she…