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Monday, July 25, 2011
The Joy Luck Club: Jing-Mei Woo
"And that's why you can understand why a mother like this can never forget her other daughters. She knew they were alive, and before she died she wanted to find her daughters in China"(39, Ying-ying St.Clair).
This quote displays foreshadowing, because after Jing-Mei finds this out her life is altered forever, and the reader will most likely see this happen in the book. After her mother dies, Jing-Mei is asked to fill her spot at The Joy Luck Club. While she is there she remembers her mother, her childhood, and the things about her culture that she has forgot. She realizes that she doesn't know her mother as well as she thought she did. I can relate this to Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows when Harry himself wonders how much he didn't know about Dumbledore. He feels that he could have been mislead about him for their whole relationship, and is greatly disillusioned. Harry is experiencing a flood of emotions while he decides if he was being lied to or protected. In the same way, Jing-Mei starts to see different aspects of her mother and wonders how she could have misjudged her in such huge way.
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I really enjoy how you related this chapter to Harry Potter. It's perfect! Harry's emotion is parallel to what Jing-Mei is feeling. Both also feel as if they mis-judged people that knew their whole lives like you elaborated on. I love it, Sam!!
ReplyDeleteI also liked how you related it to HP. It helped me understand the context of the first chapter more completely.
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