Jing-mei’s Success
In the book The Joy Luck Club
the author talks about the lives of four different pairs of mothers and
daughters and explains hoe their lives intertwine with each other. One of those
pairs are Suyuan Woo and her daughter Jing-mei “June” Woo. Suyuan Woo founded
the Joy Luck Club and continued it in San Francisco when she left her home in
China. Suyuan also had to leave behind her twin babies because of a war. Now
that Suyuan is dead it is up to Jing-mei to continue what her mother started
and to finish what her mother could not.
Jing-mei was at a Joy Luck Club
meeting and her aunties received a letter explaining that her mothers’ lost
daughters were still alive. Jing-mei’s aunties encouraged her to go meet them
because her mother would have wanted it. Jing-mei’s mother spent all her life
searching for her lost daughters and now that they are found it is too late for
them to see her. Jing-mei agrees to see her half-sisters and to tell them
everything she can about the mother they lost. If Jing-mei would have said no,
the sisters would have never met and they would not know that their mother is
dead.
At the Joy Luck Club meeting
Jing-mei’s aunties gave her money to go to see her sisters in China. That money
was going to make everything possible for Jing-mei. When Jing-mei enters China
she feels like she has changed. She finally understands what her mother meant
that someday she will see the part of her that is Chinese. If Jing-mei’s
aunties would have never given her that money Jing-mei would have figured out a
way to come up with the money herself. When Jing-mei is headed to China she
feels like she is also bringing har mothers dreams and wishes along on her journey.
Jing-mei is headed to Shanghai and
on the plane she wonders what she is going to say to her half-sisters and how
she will describe her mother to them. When she arrives she notices how much
they look alike. She also notices how much they are the splitting image of
their mother. Jing-mei realizes that she has at last granted her mother’s last wish.
If Jing-mei never went to China she would not have fulfilled her mother’s last
wish the thought that she died with. Jing-mei’s mother lives on in her in spirit
and she will continue to live within her.
Jing-mei has now found what her
mother lost many years ago. Her mother died having this thought in her head and
now she has put an end to what her mother thought of for many years in pain and
sorrow. Suyuan lives on in her daughter Jing-mei. Jing-mei’s trip to China made
her realize what it meant to be Chinese just like her mother.
