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Four Directions

A Pair of Tickets

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glC9_8Ijt9k

Reunited by Peaches and Herb is a great song that relates to the final chapter of the novel. The song is a very smoothing and relaxing song, much like the final chapter "A Pair of Tickets." The final chapter put a final stamp on the search for Jing Mei's lost sisters, and more importantly, an end to her search for her Chinese identity. It was a great closure for the book. This song gave me the same type of feeling as when i read the final chapter. It was kind of a stress relieving song much like the end of final chapter, as the reader see's Jing Mei's life go so up and down on her quest for Chinese identity. She reunited with her identity and it felt good for her, and also me, as the reader. We finally get to see her smiling and happy. This song makes me smile.

A Pair of Tickets & Double Face

Double Face

http://factsanddetails.com/china.php?itemid=109&catid=4&subcatid=20

This link discusses the different customs and traditions of Chinese weddings and honeymoons. In "Double Face", wedding are part of the setting and in my opinion, they reflect Lindo Jong's pride and authenticity to her Chinese heritage.

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"Best Quality"

Double Face poem

My Daughter

I look in the mirror

And me is all i see

I'm proud of my daughter

Yet she's ashamed of me

The nose, it crooked

My daughter will follow my path

I'll name her Waverly

From the Chinese identity, She can Dash

My darling baby

Cosmic surgery is what you need

(Sigh) no mama,

It makes me look Chinese.

Four directions poem-Brian Harrison

The Sins of my mother When my mother says I will succeed I do, But my mother doesn't listen I talk, she talks, i listen, she talks I quit, she ignores me, The women doesn't understand, She told me I would fail and I did, For I always fallow my mother. She knows a thing before it happens. This poem shows how waver ly lives up to her moms expectations, and how daughters need a mothers support to succeed.

Magpies Poem - Brian Harrison

Me and My Daughter
My daughter and I are the same,
different journeys, same ending.
We were one person,
but she sprang from me and became another,
she is my opposite, and my mirror,
she was born to me, born a girl
I was born to my mother, born a girl
All of us like stairs,
one step after another,
going up and down,
but all going the same way.

This poem shows how the mother and daughter feel that they are different, but turn out to be really similar people.  The last words of this poem came from the bottom of page 215-Tan.

Double face poem

Double Face: She wants to be an American, Have nothing to do with me, For today Chinese is foreign. She wants to be Chinese, Exotic, cultured, fashionable To late. She not real Chinese. She sacrificed that long ago. The quote on page 266 reading "I think about our two faces. I think about my intentions. Which one is American? Which one is Chinese? Which one is better? If you show one, you must sacrifice the other." really helps understand what is going on in this chapter.

four directions links

http://chineseculture.about.com/od/businesseconomy/a/Chinese-Etiquette-Chinese-Dining-Etiquette.htm

This chapter had a scene that focused on Chinese dinning etiquette. Waverlys fiancée makes many blunders on the night of the dinner. Chinese culture is rich with tradition and ritual. This article details many of these tradition adding in what is appropriate at Chinese restaurant. Even something as straightforward as drinking tea has a specific way it needs to be done.

Waiting between the Trees- Brian Harrison

Waiting between the Trees
"There is a part of her mind that is part of mine.  But when she was born, she sprung from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away ever since.  All her life, I have watched her as though from another shore.  And now I must tell her everything about my past.  It is the only way to penetrate her skin and pull her to where she can be saved." (242)

This passage shows the mother's need to be close to her daughter.  She is describing how she will tell her daughter everything about her past in an attempt to gain some closeness.  This passage shows the mothers cultural struggle and how her daughter appears to be in a different land.

"All around this house I see the signs.  My daughter looks but does not see.  This is a house that will break into pieces.  How do I know? I have always known a thing before it happens." (243)

This passage shows the mothers frustration and her inability to properly communicate truths to her daughter.  Although the mother wishes to show the daughter that her marriage may be ending, she cannot find a way to share this truth with her daughter because of their disconnection.

"I was like her.  That's why she named me Ying-ying, Clear Reflection." (243)

This passage yet again outlines the relationship between mother and daughter.  The daughter is mentioning how she is so much like her mother, or at least that her mother thinks so.  This brings the reader back to that common theme throughout the book, that is that daughters become their mothers, no matter how different they may feel.

"I will tell her of the baby I killed because I came to hate this man so much...My daughter thinks I do not know what it means to not want a baby. (248)

This passage shows how mothers and daughters become like one another and how mothers know what daughters are going threw even when the daughters do not think it is so.

Double face

I though all the things Lindo thought Chinese people had to do in america was really interesting, sad, and  overly stereo typical.  I took all the things she said and made it into a sarcastic guide book for chinese people in america and american people in China.  I think when looking at the guide you can realize the issues with all of this fuss between the cultures.   I believe understanding the culture shock and differences is an important part of this book.

Guide for Americans in China:

Step 1: Don’t even try to act Chinese everyone knows your american

Guide for Chinese in America:
 Step 1: Hide true self

Step 2: Hire girl to teach you to be American

Step 3: Say you admire their schools.

Step 4: Say you admire their ways of thinking.

Step 5: Say you want to be a scholar.

Step 6: Say you want to go back to China and teach people what you have learned.

Step 7: Say you want to study religion.

Step 8 : Say “I’m going for Gods sake.

End here unless you insert more money.

Step 9: Know how to write you name, birthdate, birthplace, and occupation (by the way say student of theology).

End Here unless you insert more money

Step 10: Obtain list of addresses for connections in San Fransisco

Bonus Step free of charge!: Find a Chinese American citizen and marry him. (If not a citizen quickly have a child)

Ying Ying St. Clair and Lena St. Clair

Lindo Jong and Waverly Jong

An-Mei Hsu and Rose Hsu Jordan

Suyuan Woo and Jing-Mei Woo

A pair of tickets

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Four Directions Poem

My mother knows how to get under my skin
Like dirt trapped under my nails
Dirt is a pest but family is kin
On exhibit equivalent to a knight
Though manuevered like a pawn
My wrong decision
My wrong Move
Can we gambit out this stalemate and run away into the bliss?

Four Directions Links Luke

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_(Wu_Xing)

On page 167 it talked about the year of the horse. After googling it, I found out that she is specifically born undre the year of the earth horse, which is interesting. I didn't know there was that dimension to it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_(zodiac)

I was curious about Waveryl's zodiac too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/146_(number)

When I read that Marvin had "one hundred forty-six straight black hairs on his chest" (p. 174) I wondered if there was any significance to this number. So I googled it.

http://books.google.com/books?id=Q15AtCVSiiYC&pg=PA207&lpg=PA207&dq=%22Jong+clan%22+cantonese&source=bl&ots=f7QXihvFZO&sig=Qaiudqloy5elFsxZTMmLpR3Crzw&hl=en&sa=X&ei=CTVdT-jQBo-ctwfR05yGDA&sqi=2&ved=0CD8Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=%22Jong%20clan%22%20cantonese&f=falseI wanted to find out more about the Jong Clan (p. 182), which is the clan Waverly's father belonged to. I didn't find anything, and wasn't really expecting to. However, I did find an excerpt from a book that is talking about the Joy Luck Club and the passages that I am referencing right now. So I thought that was interesting and worth reposting.

Waiting between Trees, Magpies and Two Tickets

This is from Two Tickets, it's a polaroid picture of the three sisters meeting for the first time. At the bottom of the picture there's the quote about the polaroid specifically and about them recognizing each other for the first time and seeing their mother in their faces.

This image is from Magpies. It's a drawing of the girl crying tears which are eaten by a turtle. The turtle coughs up tiny pearls which grow into eggs. Magpies emerge from the eggs and feed off of the young girl's tears, creating a cycle. It represents how other's feed off of someone's tears, and why crying does nothing but benefit the people around you.

by clicking on the picture, it'll enlarge and you'll be able to read the paragraph from the book as well as a description of the Tiger Zodiac.

Joy Luck Club Map

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=208064397362109409806.0004ba843c96301ed9d78&msa=0

Places in San Fransisco and China where the different families are from, or have visited.

Magpies Quotations

"Maybe it is because she was born to me and she was born a girl. And I was born to my mother and I was born a girl. All of us are like stairs, one step after another, going up and down, but all going the same way" (215). This quotation is located at the beginning of the chapter.  I believe that it is a really interesting passage that relates to the theme of this section.  It reminded me of the passage in "Let the Great World Spin," where Tilly rants about the cycle her, Jazz, and all the other females in her family were trapped in. In the story An-Mei talks about how she was trapped by being a listener.  She is finally able to find her true voice when she expresses her anger and yells at the second wife about the pearl necklace. "But after my mother finished her story, I looked at her and saw she was crying. And I also began to cry again, that this was our fate, to live like two turtles seeing the watery world together from the bottom of the little pond" (217). This quotation ties nicely into the first.  This happens after her mother visits and tells her a story about her tears. The turtle in the story eats the girls tears and then throws up eggs which hatch into Magpies.  The Magpies then feed off of her tears, but when she tries to grab one to pet it. They fly away laughing and cawing at her.  “And on that day, I showed second wife the fake pearl necklace she had given me and crushed it under my foot.  And on that second day, Second Wife’s hair began to turn white. And on that day, I learned to shout” (240). This quotation is at the end of the section after her mother dies. It is significant because it is the first time that An-Mei is able to speak up and find her own voice. “My Mother, she suffered. She lost her face and tried to hide it.  She found only greater misery, and finally could not hide that.  There is nothing more to understand. That was China.  That was what people did back then.  They had no choice. They could not speak up. They could not run away. That was their fate” (241). Similarly to the last quotation, this one has interesting repetition and an interesting voice.  To me, this quotation is the last soliloquy of the section.  She is sort of justifying her mother’s life by saying that in was Chinas customs.

A Pair of Tickets - 3/8/12 - Map

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Pair of Tickets Quizlet

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Double Face Poem

Maura Gunter

Double Face Poem

Together

Ripped apart from our village.

Sent to a new one.

We are one.

Language, customs, and tradition. All different.

Location.

The only thing connecting us.

They took the worst parts of china-the crowded streets, the smell- and placed them

inside China Town.

No ponds, no gardens, no meditation.

This is where we became one. We are the same.

He made this land a home by adding a spouse.

You will never forget where you are from, for it is simply your name.

Waverly St. is the street we lived on. Waverly is who you are. Waverly is where you

belong.

Even when you leave you will take a piece of me with you.

The same

My nose- crooked.

I subtracted prayers to god.

Your nose. Defied genetics. Somehow, from somewhere.

It too, is crooked.

Maura- Two Kinds

This picture didn't turn out quite like I wanted it to, so I had another go- that is why there are two. The top left corner pictures a piano and Jing Mei- there are two sets of music notes. The first set are what she wants to play, the inner prodigy that she wants to come out, and the second set is side ways, it represents the music she is actually playing. The right hand corner is Jing Mei's mother. It shows her thinking of steps, they represent her desire for her daughter to go beyond where she was, and her circumstances. The bottom is two curved arrows with music notes meeting in the center. They represent the two songs that she plays at the end, and in my opinion the connection of past and present.

Best Quality

Jade Pendent Links-

Different Grades of Jade

Type A jadeite has not been treated in any way except surface waxing.

Type B the impregnation of died polymers into the jade colors it.

Type C jade has been artificially stained or dyed. The effects are somewhat uncontrollable and may result in a dull brown. In any case, translucency is usually lost.

B+C jade is a combination of B and C- has been both artificially dyed as well as impregnated.

Type D- this is a jade top with a plastic backing.

This is a link that details this history of chinese jade-

http://www.antiquejades.com/cnhistry.htm

The "Six Ritual Jades"- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_jade

bi- a flat disk with a hole in its center. Represents the heavens. Reserved for barons.

Hu- flat and circular. Represents west

Cong- a ring cuff shape. Represents earth.

huang- a flat, half-ring pendant. Represents the north. Reserved for dukes

gui- flat and blade like. Represents the east. Reserved for earls.

zhang- Flat and blade like. Represents south. Reserved for the king.

Jade Jewelry- http://www.jadefinejewelry.com/

Jade Care-

1. Jade is delicate- avoid bumping it. Although sometimes a crack cannot be seen by the naked eye, the interior structure may have been damaged. As time goes on, it will appear and reduce the value of the piece.

2. Jade is porous so its important not to let it become greasy.

3. When not in use store in a box away from sunlight.

4. Avoid perfume, perspiration or chemicals. The brightness of jade risks corrosion, especially emerald and other high quality jade.

5. Avoid long periods of sunlight for a long time, or it may expand and the quality will change slightly.

6. Jade has certain water content so keep it in an area of humidity to protect it from over-drying.

Folk lore and Jade Legends-

http://www.bernardine.com/gemstones/jade.htm

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Magpies - 3/6/12 - Song Link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vwNcNOTVzY

This song, "Gold Digger" By Kanye West, is a comical way of looking at this section. Wu Tsing is a self-made success, and he has many wives; kind of like a pimp. However, he picked a bad apple in Second Wife. I think it's safe to say that none of his women are with him for love, but Second Wife is so blatantly out with her greed; this song felt appropriate for the occasion. She fakes becoming sick from too much opium to get more money out of Wu Tsing, and he feeds her gold digging appetite. Kanye West describes many different scenarios involving numerous men who make a very decent salary, and women who tag along just for the opportunity to get a whiff of his bank account. This song describes Wu Tsing's situation perfectly, because if he didn't have the money and assets that he posesses, he wouldn't have any of these women; especially not Second Wife.

Best Quality

this is a comic from page 206. The paragraph in the middle of the page is written in a choppy, inconsistent manner which is uncharacteristic of the rest of the novel. The style of writing represents the disconnection among all the members of the joy luck club and the situation they are in.

Best Quality - 3/5/12 - Poem: Limerick

My mother gave me a jade pendant,

Right before her life was ended;

It was too large and too green,

An old miserable thing,

Unfortunately, it was my jade pendant.

A bartender wore the same one as me,

And yes, it was too large and too green;

I then asked him why,

He looked at the sky,

He shrugged, didn't know, the same boat as me.

Before my mom died, we went to the market,

Crabs, so bright, were an easy target;

I picked it up by the head,

It was missing a leg!

But we still took it from the market.

At dinner, I saw Waverly Jong,

That whore, we never got along;

I made a mean joke,

Only to provoke,

That mean old Waverly Jong.

The plate was filled with crabs, so meaty.

Waverly took the biggest one, how greedy!

The plate got to me,

And what did I see?

A leg missing, a crab not too meaty.

After dinner, mom and I discussed,

How could I fight with Waverly? Such a terrible fuss;

I was smarter, she hinted,

And said I thought different,

And that Waverly couldn't come between us.

My father hasn't done well since mom died,

He doesn't eat, though I think he's tried;

I made the bean-curd dish,

and with an obsurd hiss,

The tomcat stood there; alive!

Zodiac Signs

Characters symbols-

Ying Ying St. Clair- Tiger

Lena St. Clair- Tiger

Waverly- Rabit

Lindo- Horse

Rat- Pro: Smart, Wealthy, Flexibility, Adaptable, Materialistic, Tidy Con: Timid, Lack Stability, Year: 2013

Oz- Pro: Honest, Industrious Con: Poor at communication, Prudish, Distant Upcoming Year: 2010

Tiger- Pro: Tolerant, Trustworthy, Con: Short tempered, Conflict with authority. Upcoming Year: 2011

Rabbit- Pro: Hope, Gentle, Sensitive, Modest Con: Stubborn, escape reality. Upcoming Year: 2012

Dragon- Pro: Hate Gossip, Leaders, Like things Perfect Con: Arrogant, Impatient, Over confident. Upcoming Year: 2013

Snake- Pro: Good temper, Communicating skills, good at keeping goals. Con: Jealous, Suspicious Upcoming Year: 2014

Horse- Pro: Clever, Kind, Perceptive, Leaders, Cheerful Con: Talk too much, bad at finances, Independent Upcoming Year: 2015

Sheep- Pro: Tender, Polite, Wise, Economical Con: Shy, Moody, Indecisive, Over Sensitive, Closed off about love. Upcoming Year: 2016

Monkey- Pro: Lively, Flexible, Versatile. Con: Jealous, suspicious, cunning, selfish. Upcoming Year: 2017

Rooster- Pro: Thinkers, Honest, Bright, Warmhearted. Con: Easily lose interest, critical, selfish. Upcoming Year: 2018

Dog- Pro: Loving, Faithful, Confident, Good Leaders Con: Stubborn, lack stability Upcoming Year: 2019

Pig- Pro: Honest, Frank, Friendly, Sweet Con: Naïve, Hot tempered, impulsive, prank people. Upcoming Year: 2020

Magpies

Best Quality

When I first read this chapter, I noticed the emphasis characters were putting on the "crabs" they ate for dinner. While researching, the chapter begun to make more since. The symbolism of the crab is very big in chinese. The crab represents success, prosperity, and high status. Many of the Chinese wear crabs as charms to express a desire for peace. In the chapter Waverly made sure the crabs of "Best Quality" went her daughter first, then herself, and then Rich. The Chinese symbolism of the crab played a big role in the choosing of the crab with "Best Quality", which is also the name of the chapter. Early in the chapter, Suyuan explained that the feistiest crabs are of the best quality; even beggars would reject a crab that has died before being cooked. This again shows the importance of a crab in Chinese culture. Not even a man with no food wants a bad crab. Every person wants success, prosperity, and high status.

Magpies-Drawing

This is an illustration of the scene that starts on page 218 and ends on 219. The aunt is standing in the doorway with An-mei's crying brother while An-mei goes to her mother. I think the blurred and vague lines help show the reader that this scene is a memory. As An-mei is leaving her uncle says, "she is already changed"(219). The people in this picture show the change physically. The aunt, uncle and brother all appear to be connected to the house. Their defining lines run into that of the house. In contrast, An-mei and her mother are drawn with darker, bolder and detached lines.  

Multiple Marriages In Chinese Society (Magpies)

While multiple marriages and polygamy are definitely a thing in China, monogamy is considered by and large to be the norm.
The importance of marriage in China has a lot to do with Confucius. According to the Confuscian, the married couple serve as the primary unit in society, the most basic unit. This is a common notion in both western and eastern political philosophies.
A concubine is essentially a mistress, and has a much lower status than a wife. A man is allowed to take a concubine in Chinese society, however how many he is allowed to take was often regulated by his rank. An emperor would almost always have several royal concubines.
Sometimes a man would even take multiple wives, especially if he was someone who traveled a lot. It seems as though there have been some instances of women having multiple husbands, but this was viewed as disgusting (this is one common double standard).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_marriage#Marriage_in_a_Confucian_context

Opium

A plant that secretes a latex that can be manufactured into various legal drugs but also the infamous drug heroin. It has been used as recreational drug in China dating back as far as 1483 and even as far back as ancient Egypt. Chinere opium dens have become a stereotype among popular culture. In China in corresponded with tobacco consumption. It became a luxury drug that the elite would smoke. They would claim that it was for medical purposes, namely male potency. Popularity reached its peak in the 18th century despite the fact that it had been ousted as a medicine, and had been banned on repeated occasions. Arguments over trade of opium lead to the opium wars between England and China. When immigration began to the united states the Chinese along with many other easterners brought with them the tradition of opium smoking. Cities like San Fransisco developed their own opium dens with the same elegant feel as their sisters in the east. During the reign of Mao Zedong the production of opimun shifted south to countries like Vietnam.

David Foster Wallace Lobsters--Best Quality

http://www.gourmet.com/magazine/2000s/2004/08/consider_the_lobster

I read David Foster Wallace’s article about the Maine Lobster Festival.  It is a very interesting article that explains and debates all aspects about lobsters.  David Foster Wallace uses footnotes, parenthetical writing, and his unique voice to make the article very interesting.  The beginning of the article talks about, anatomically, what a lobster is.  David then describes the hectic setting of the lobster festival. David then goes on to describe the “preparation” of lobster (as he keenly points out in the article preparation is a kinder word for killing).  Inevitably he then raises the ethical question about eating lobster: “ Is it all right to boil a sentient creature alive just for our gustatory pleasure? A related set of concerns: Is the previous question irksomely PC or sentimental? What does ‘all right’ even mean in this context? Is it all just a matter of individual choice?”  Similarly to in the “The Joy Luck Club” David explains the scene and feelings that rise when you drop a lobster in the pot.  Jing Mei experience guilt when her mother threw the crabs in the boiling water:

I remember that crab screaming as he thrust one bright red claw out over the side of the bubbling pot. It must have been my own voice, because now I know, of course, that crabs have no vocal cords. And I also try to convince myself that they don’t have enough brains to know the difference between a hot bath and a slow death (201).

In the article David Foster Wallace looks at all angles of the ethicalness of boiling lobster.