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Comparing My Sister's Keeper And Rules Of The Game

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In the stories “My Sister’s Keeper” and “Rules of the Game” there are many similarities and differences between them.

One similarity between Anna from My Sister’s Keeper and Mei from Rules of the Game is that they both have awful childhoods. The awful childhoods are caused by their mother’s wishing for a better life. On pg 354 in My Sister’s Keeper ____ says “well, sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.” I think that this is representative of how both the mother’s feel about making their daughters’ do things they don’t want to to get to a better life.

However the character’s also are different. The situation that Anna is in is that her mother wants her to give up her life for her sister. Mei’s mother is pushing her to be the best even if it means that she isn’t happy. In The Rules Of the Game (pg. 10) Mei says “but there was one duty I couldn’t avoid… Saturday Market days my mother would proudly walk with me”. This shows that Mei’s mother just wants to have a smart kid to be proud of. When Anna is angry with her situation she goes out and gets a lawyer so she can get medical emancipation, but Mei runs …show more content…

The symbol in The Rules of the Game is the chess board. It represents how Waverly feels as though she’s a chess piece in her mother’s game because she doesn’t get to make any decisions about what she wants to do. When Waverly is tired of playing chess it appears in her nightmare as her against her mother and her mother’s pieces chased her off the board. Mei dreams after she runs away “My white pieces screamed as they scurried and fell off the board one by one. As her men drew closer to my edge” The symbol in My Sister’s Keeper is the necklace that Anna got as a gift. The necklace symbolises her complacency with the donations and treatments she gets to help her sister. As soon as Anna wants to subpoena her parents for medical emancipation she sells it off for money to pay for a

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An-mei’s mother was forced to be taken advantaged of and had no rights in society. An-mei saw her mom struggle with trusting other people and was never able to form a strong relationship with other people. She taught An-mei that she had to face all hardships of life without reacting in anyway to not make the hardship even worse.

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Although An-mei later learns to speak up and assert herself, she fears that she has handed down a certain timidness to her daughter Rose. An-Mei never knew her mother very well, and she didn’t want to be the same mother to her daughter. Growing up An-mei lived with her grandmother Popo. An-mei says at the start of her story, “When I was a young girl in China, my grandmother told me my mother was a ghost.

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Wu Tsing was An Meis mother, An Mei lived with her aunt and uncle in Ningpo and she never really had a relationship with her mother because she was outcasted from the family for pursuing the title of a concubine. An Mei and her mother had an interesting relationship, even though she didn’t really know her that well An Mei still felt like she could connect with her in a way that she couldn’t with anyone else, An Mei in Magpies said “My mother was strange to me when she first arrived at my uncle's house in Ningpo. I was nine years old and had not seen her for many years. But I knew she was my mother, because I could feel her pain” (Tan 216). because of this connection they had, An Mei decides to leave with her mother and go away from her aunt and Uncles House.

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In both the stories, in which both families include a mother who is the first generation immigrant and the daughter who is an American citizen, their relation is very complex because of their distinct thinking. Jing-Mei’s mother has always had a very high expectation for Jing-Mei. Her mother

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An-mei Hsu was a young girl in China when her mother left her to go work as a concubine for a rich man. This caused An-mei to grow up with her grandmother as her main parenting figure, which resulted in her following Popo’s beliefs and customs. Popo told An-mei cynical sides of stories about her mother, and was the leading factor of her developing dislike for her mom. But when she enters back into An-mei’s life, a traumatic accident happens and causes her to be associated with even more negative memories. “This was the kind of pain so terrible that a little child should never remember it.

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Opposing from An Mei, her daughter, Rose, had a completely different view upon the world and how she wanted to live her life. An Mei was born in china, whereas her daughter was born in the United States where she has been used to the American culture. She also has no interest in the Chinese culture or traditions as her mother. I believe that An Mei is upset that her daughter doesn’t follow in the footsteps as her mother, but Rose is so “gung-ho” about what she wants that she doesn’t even consider her families past. “This is not hope, not reason.

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The problem between mama and Jing-Mei is, mama is pushing her to do stuff and Jing-Mei is not liking it. In the beginning, JIng-Mei has happy to do what mama wants but every time they did that Jing-Mei would disappoint mama. “But my mother’s expression was what devastated me: a quiet, blank look that said she had lost everything .” By Jing-Mei saying that she feel sad that she keeps disappointing mama. “Maybe she's not the best, but she's trying hard.

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Regardless, her mother still is persistent on Jing Mei becoming a prodigy, despite her passionless performance and her family’s negative reaction. In return, Jing Mei becomes angry at her mother, and will do anything to change her mind. Screaming, “I wish I were dead! Like them.”, her mother freezes, disappointed in her daughter, and quits Jing Mei’s piano classes. On Page 28-29, Jing Mei’s perspective on the world becomes more apparent: “For unlike my mother, I didn’t believe I could be anything I wanted to be, I could only be me.”

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Throughout the story, Jing-mei’s feeling toward her mother change in critical ways. As a young child, Jing-mei wants constant attention from her mother, going so far as agreeing to become a child prodigy. In the story, Jing-mei commented, “In fact, in the beginning, I was just as excited as my mother, maybe even more so” (Tan 221). This was before her mother becomes highly adamant about wanting her child to become a prodigy. As time went on, she wanted Jing-mei to become the epitome of a child star.

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She then uses these “new thoughts” and ideas to state that she “won’t let her [mother] change” her into the person she seeks her daughter to be. When Jing-Mei experiences a realization that she is her own person and not simply another part of her mother, she can embrace the comfort of knowing that she will not change for anyone, and is simply extraordinary for having her own thoughts and feelings. This reflects how Amy Tan can understand her thoughts and feelings about the hardships in her relationship with her mother as a way to connect more closely to her characters and make them more realistic in her writing (“How Amy Tan’s family stories made her a

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However, this determination sometimes appears to be obsessive to the point of running her daughter’s life for her. Regardless, she is only trying to help, as she encourages Jing Mei by asserting “‘You can be best anything.’” (1). Because of this, it suggests that although she is very harsh on her daughter at times, it is only to make sure that Jing Mei can use her full potential and not end up losing everything like her

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