Four directions quizlet

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.

Magpies Quizlet

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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.