Feathers From a Thousand Li Away
This object represents the mothers hope for her daughter
What is swan feather
This object contains all the bad things that can happen to you
What is The Twenty-Six Malignant Gates book
True or False Queen Mother Of The Western Sky is the last Section of the joy luck club
This mother visits her daughter's expensive, minimalist home and almost immediately senses that something in her daughter's life is deeply wrong.
Who is Ying-ying St. Clair
Suyuan Woo is defined by this quality. she never stops pursuing her dream of finding her twin daughters, even across decades and continents.
What is persistance
The mother believes this country offers freedom and opportunity
What is the USA
The mother warns her daughter not to ride this around the corner.
What is a bicycle
What animals appear in the childhood story told by An - Mei's mother
What are Turtles and Magpies
Lena's husband insists they split all household expenses this way, down to every last grocery item
What is 50 / 50
An-mei Hsu learned this lesson from watching her mother suffer in silence. that a woman must speak loudly or the world will not hear her at all.
What is the importance of a voice
The officials took this away from the woman when she entered the USA
What is the swan
The daughter accuses her mother of lacking this
What is knowledge
Who is Ying - Ting St.Clair's daughter?
What is Lena St.Clair
An-mei pushes Rose to do this one thing rather than remaining silent as her marriage falls apart
What is stay quiet
Jing-mei Woo spends most of the novel weighed down by this feeling toward her mother. believing she was always seen as a disappointment.
What is guilt
What literary device is represented by the swan
What is a motif
What happens to the daughter after she ignores her mother *Hint - Irony*
What is the daughter falls off the bike
What is the key animal sybolism in this section
What is the Tiger
An-mei's mother cut flesh from her own arm to make this, in a desperate attempt to save her dying mother
What is a healing soup
Ying-ying's defining tragedy is that she gave up this quality. which she tries desperately to pass on to her daughter Lena before it is too late.
What is her spirit
what theme is shown in this quote
“And she waited, year after year, for the day she could tell her daughter”
What is communication between generations
This literary device is shown when danger is exaggerated in predictions
What is a hyperbole
what did Ying - Ying Feel like she passed down to her daughter
What is silence, and a lost sense of self
An-mei's mother was a concubine to this man, and she timed her suicide to the new year so that tradition would give An-mei power over him
Who is Wu Tsing?
An-mei's mother appears weak to the outside world as a concubine, but her suicide reveals this — she chose the only form of power available to her to protect her daughter.
what is sacrifice