About the Author
This is where the author's parents emigrated from. (be specific)
What is Beijing, China?
She learns to play the piano
Who is Jing-mei?
This is where the author attended college.
What is the University of California at Berkley?
These are the two kinds of daughters that exist according to the main character's mother.
What are obedient daughters and disobedient daughters?
He is the main character's deaf piano teacher.
Who is Mr. Chong?
This theme represents when Jing-mei tells her mother "you want me to be someone that I'm not." "I'll never be the kind of daughter you want me to be."
What is be who you are, not who others want you to be?
This is where the author was born.
What is Oakland, California?
These are the two sides of personality that main character sees in herself when looking in the mirror.
What are the ordinary side and the prodigy side?
She is the main character's mother's friend, her Aunt by reference, not by blood.
Who is Aunt Lindo Jong?
This theme represents Jing-mei believes "I am not a genius" after she played the piano for people.
What is abandoning hope?
This is where the author completed her high school education.
What is Montreux, Switzerland?
These are the two songs that the main character plays.
What are "Pleading Child" and "Perfectly Contented?"
She is "Chinatown's Littlest Chinese Chess Champion."
Who is Waverly Jong?
This theme represents when Jing-mei begins to play the piano again.
What is never giving up?
These are the names of the author's two best-selling and critically acclaimed novels.
What is "The Joy Luck Club" and "The Kitchen God's Wife"
This is the specific focus of the author's books.
What is the emotional relationship between a Chinese-born mother with a strong personality and her American-born daughter?
This is the actor that the main character's mother thought she could be the Chinese version of.
Who is Shirley Temple?
This theme represents when Jing-mei supports the little girl on TV by saying "she's not the best, but she's trying hard."
What is having hope?