Analysis Of A Pair Of Tickets By Amy Tan - 1084 Words

In the story A Pair of Tickets by Amy Tan, talks about the story of Jing-Mei, the narrator, going to China to fulfill her mothers dream. This story was based on Tans life experiences when she went to go learn more about her background and see her sister in China. Going to China for the first time made her feel as she was transforming and feeling the Chinese in her that she never knew she has. She later finds out how much she cherishes her family and learns how important her culture is to her. Knowing who she is and where she comes from is an important aspect of her inner self. China was the homeland of Jing-Meis parents. They still have some family members there like her aunt and her half-sisters she recently found out about. On†¦show more content†¦This is China (146). She has started to accept herself for who she is, Chinese. If it was other westerners, they would have been skeptical about the color of the shampoo. Jing-Mei cant deny who she is because its in her DNA. Suyuan, her mother, told her Once you are born Chinese, you cannot help but feel and think Chinese (Tan 139). Her mother said that to her because Jing-Mei is Americanize and knows little about her heritage. Tan is pretty much describing herself that she was born in American and knows little about her background. Jing-Mei tells her mother about her and her friends I was about as Chinese as they were (Tan 139). Jing-Mei means that she knows as much about Chinese as her white friends in America would know. But her mother claims that she knows more because she is a nurse and keeps telling her that no matter what, she is Chinese and its in her. Even though Jing-Mei is taller than the average Chinese and does not look like the others, that does not mean she is any less Chinese. She had no makeup on because it was humid there, So today my face is plain, unadorned except for a thin mist of shiny sweat on my forehead and nose (142). 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