From Dreams and Wishes to Reality In the book “The Joy Luck Club” written by Amy Tan, there is a selected passage for this assignment it is called “Pair of Tickets”. This passage tells about a girl who has gone through hear-ache, pain, loss and suffering. Her name was Jing-mei. Jing-mei was a Chinese girl who grew up in America with traditional Chinese Parents, as a girl she did not want to be Chinese but as she got older we read that she yearned to find the part of her that is Chinese, she wanted to embrace her culture. In the passage her mother has passed away several months before, Jing-mei felt very lost after that. After the death of her mother Jing-mei receives a letter from two twin-sisters in China who were Jing-mei’s sisters that her mother had left in China to be in a better home during the war. Letter broke Jing-mei’s heart because they were hoping to get in contact with their mother, they did not know she had already died. Jing-mei sent a letter back saying that she was sorry and told her that their mother had died. Later Jing-mei and her father had setup a trip to meet her sisters in China. On way to meeting her sisters they …show more content…
As the picture was developing it turned from pitch black then bright and warm colors and finally to the official picture. The first stage of the development of the Polaroid picture which was the darkness represented Jing-mei’s life prior to the trip. The second stage which was the bright colors represented her finally understanding why her mother did what she had to do to save the babies. Finally, the third is the actual picture. Overall this passage is brings a very inspiring message as along with the rest of “Joy Luck Club”. They both give out a message that saying that the road to finding who you are in life and setting goals with the motivation to reach them may not be easy but will be worth it in the long