Character Analysis: A Pair Of Tickets
Someone once said “Family like branches on a tree, we all grow in different directions, but our roots keep us all together”. This mean that we all become diverse individuals yet what keeps all of us united as one is our genealogy. In the story A Pair of Tickets by Amy Tan we come across a character named June May who is on her mid thirties and embarks on a mission to China to meet her lost twin sisters to notified them of their mother’s death and also to make her not existing mother “Long-Cherished Wish” come alive. Her wish was to connect her three daughter together since they were all, that was left of her entire family. A Pair of Ticket is a fairy tale story. June made her mom’s wish her own. However throughout her life June has encountered
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June was born and raised in San Francisco California, United States. June’s language,country setting, friends, way of living and thinking were all fragments of her American life. She rather to be called June May instead of Jing Mei. She only spoke a little bit of Chinese. Even though June looked Chinese she did not feel like one. “ All my Caucasian friend agreed: I was about as Chinese as they were” (Tan 145). She felts like a normal American woman and thought she had no Chinese in her. Her mother told her “Once you are born Chinese, you cannot help but feel and think Chinese” (Tan 145). However it wasn't until she went to China that she discovered that her mother’s words were true. “I saw myself transformation like a werewolf, a mutant tag of DNA suddenly triggered, replicating itself insidiously into a syndrome, a cluster of telltale Chinese behaviors…”(Tan 145). June experienced a self transformation during her trip to China that changed her perspective and rapidly made her understand what was Chinese about her.” I look at their faces again and I see no trace of my mother in therm. Yet they still look familiar. And now I also see what part of me is Chinese. It is obvious. It is my family. It is in our blood. After all this years it can finally be let go” (Tan 157). This quote emphasize that June finally has overcome her internal conflict and now she recognized the Chinese behaviors as her
June was born and raised in San Francisco California, United States. June’s language,country setting, friends, way of living and thinking were all fragments of her American life. She rather to be called June May instead of Jing Mei. She only spoke a little bit of Chinese. Even though June looked Chinese she did not feel like one. “ All my Caucasian friend agreed: I was about as Chinese as they were” (Tan 145). She felts like a normal American woman and thought she had no Chinese in her. Her mother told her “Once you are born Chinese, you cannot help but feel and think Chinese” (Tan 145). However it wasn't until she went to China that she discovered that her mother’s words were true. “I saw myself transformation like a werewolf, a mutant tag of DNA suddenly triggered, replicating itself insidiously into a syndrome, a cluster of telltale Chinese behaviors…”(Tan 145). June experienced a self transformation during her trip to China that changed her perspective and rapidly made her understand what was Chinese about her.” I look at their faces again and I see no trace of my mother in therm. Yet they still look familiar. And now I also see what part of me is Chinese. It is obvious. It is my family. It is in our blood. After all this years it can finally be let go” (Tan 157). This quote emphasize that June finally has overcome her internal conflict and now she recognized the Chinese behaviors as her