powerful bonds between mother and daughter in a Chinese American society and is written by Amy Tan. The book illustrates the hardships both the mother and daughters go through in order to please the other. Also, it shows the troubles the daughters face when growing up in two cultures. This book reveals that most of the time mothers really do know best.

Throughout all of the Jing-Mei Woo stories, June has to recall all of the

memories of what her mother had told her. She remembers how her mother left

her babies during the war. June's mother felt that since she had failed as a mother to her first babies she had failed as a person. When she made June take piano lessons June thought that she was trying to make her become a child prodigy like Wav

her mother in more than just filling her place at the Maj Jong table. The mother

"And I think, My mother is right. I am becoming Chinese"(Tan 306). This

June and her mother have become two of the same thing. The only difference

The story of June and An-mei is a prime example of heredity. Although many girls' worst fears would be turning out like their mother, it can't, in many ways, be helped. June felt slightly hesitant in becoming more like her mother but, it, in the words of June's mother An-mei, "Cannot be helped" (Tan 306). June's hesitance can be seen in a quote referring to her mothers statement of certain heredity: "And when she said this, I saw myself transforming like a werewolf, a mutant tag of DNA suddenly triggered, repplicating itself into a syndrome, a cluster of telltale Chinese behaviors, all of those things my mother did to embarrass me....." (Tan 307). Whe

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Approximate Word count = 605
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)