![]() "I lay awake thinking about my mother's story, realizing how much I have never known about her" (201). Her mother never told June about what happened to her in China and why she had to abandon the twins. She likes taking pictures with her polaroid. She is empathetic towards her half-sisters in Shanghai. When her mother tells her that she is Chinese and it can't be avoided, she sees herself "transforming like a werewolf." In the story, she goes to China for the first time, so she has never been very immersed in the culture. Jing-Mei, the narrator of Amy Tans short story, 'A Pair of Tickets,' from her collection entitled, The Joy Luck Club, travels to China where she feels at home and, at the same time, alien to her. a cluster of telltale Chinese behaviors, all those things my mother did to embarrass me-haggling with store owners, pecking her mouth with a toothpick in public" (187). She is embarrassed and almost ashamed of her parent's Chinese background and culture. All my Caucasion friends agreed: I was about as Chinese as they were" (186). "I was fifteen and had vigorously denied that I had any Chinese whatsoever. Now 36 years old, she is on a train going back to China. Jing-Mei can be similar to a banana, yellow on the outside but white on the inside. She went to an all Caucasion high school and doesn't identify as Chinese. The short story, 'A Pair of Tickets', by Amy Tan is about a Chinese-American girl named Jing-Mei, raised in San Francisco, which struggles with identity early in her life. June May is an American born Chinese growing up in San Francisco and was in highschool during the summer of love. ![]()
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