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JCL Studyguide 15-16
JCL Studyguide Chapters 15-16
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who describes how her daughter, Waverly, was upset when she told her that she did not look Chinese? | Lindo Jong. |
| Why did Waverly want to look Chinese? | Because it was now fashionable to be Chinese in American and she wanted to claim her heritage, but only her skin and hair are Chinese. |
| What did Waverly think about herself? | Waverly felt that only her skin and hair were Chinese, but inside, she was All American-made. |
| What did Waverly think about herself? | Waverly felt that only her skin and hair were Chinese, but inside, she was All American-made. |
| Who does Lindo Jong blame for Waverly feeling American inside with only Chinese skin and hair? | Because Lindo wanted Waverly to have American circumstances,to believe anything is possible, while retaining Chinese widom, but Lindo failed to impart that wisdom to Waverly. |
| Who owns a beauty salon? | Waverly |
| Who was displeased when Mr. Rory said she looked like her mother? | Waverly |
| Who was ashamed because her daughter was ashamed for her? | Lindo |
| Why did Lindo Jong want to look more like her own mother when she was a child in China? | Because her mother pointed out all the signs of good luck in their similar features. |
| What did Lindo do to fit in when she first came to American after leaving China following the flood and her first marriage? | She paid another Chinese girl to help her fit in, or lose her Chinese face. |
| What did Lindo learn that she should gain the respect of Americans ? | Become religious |
| Where did Lindo get a job when she arrived in America? | Lindo got a monotonous, low-paying job at a fortune cookie factory. |
| Where did Lindo first meet An-mei Hsu? | In the fortune cookie factory. |
| Was Ani-mei already married when she met Lindo? | Yes |
| Where did she take Lindo to be introduced to Ting Jong? | The Frist Chinese Baptist Church |
| Why did Ting and Lindo have to communicate by writing things down? | Because Ting was Cantonese and Lindo spoke only Mandarin, and both were learning only a little English. |
| how did An-mei and Lindo tell Tin that Lindo wanted to marry him? | They found a fortune that said:"A house is not home when a spouse is not at home." |
| Did Lindo and Ting Jong get married? | Yes |
| What namesdid Lindo give to her sons she had for Ting Jong? | Lindo gave her sons names that sounded lucky: "Wins ton" and "Wins cent". |
| Why did Lindo give her daugther the name, Waverly? | Lindo named her daughter after the street, so Waverly should feel like she belonge in America as much as the street and so she would take a piece of the place and her mother with her when she left. |
| What similiarity did Lindo notice that Waverly and her face? | A crooked nose |
| What does Waverly say about their facial similiarity, crooked noses? | Waverly says their similiarity means they are both two-faced, so they are good at getting what they want. |
| What does Lindo think about faces and being two-faced? | Lindo thinks being two-faced is having an American face and a Chinese face means sacrificing some of one for the other. |
| What did Lindo recall when she returned to China for the first time in forty years? | People in China could tell she was no longer completely Chinese and saw her as a foreigner. |
| What did Jing-mei Woo realize as she took the train from Hong Kong to visit her aunt in Guangzhou? | Jing-mei realized she was becoming Chinese. |
| Did Jing-mei' mother, Suyuan Woo, warn her that she would be realize that she was becoming Chinese once she returned to China? | Yes |
| Who was Canning Woo? | Jing-mei's father |
| Who received the letter from An-mei's twin daughters and gave it to the Joy Luck Club ladies? | Canning Woo. |
| Instead of writing a letter breaking the news of Suyuan Woo's death, what did the JLC ladies write to the twin sisters? | The JLC ladies wrote a letter to the twin sisters saying their mother, Suyuan Woo was coming to see them. |
| Why di Jing-Mei begg Lingo to write another letter explaining that the twins mother had died? | Jing-mei was afraid her sisters would think their mother died because she did not appreciate her enough. |
| Why did Lindo write the letter to the twins explaining Suyauan's death for Jing-mei? | Lindo was satisfied at Jing-mei;s recognition ofher own shortcomings. |
| Why ere Jing-mei and her sisters the only links to their mother's past? | A bomb struck their house and all of Suyuan's family died. |
| What does Jing-mei's father tell her sisters' their names are? | Chwun Yu, "Spring Rain", and Chwun Hwa, "Spring Flower" |
| What does Suyuan's name mean? | Suyuan's name means "Long-Cherished Wish" written one way, and "Long-Held Grudge" written another. |
| What does Jing-mei mean? | Jing means "pure essence" and mei means "younger sister", Jing-mei is her mother's long-cherished wishe...the essence of her sisters. |
| Who tells Jing-mei the story of why her mother abandoned her sisters in China. | Canning Woo, her father. |
| Why did Suyuan have to abandon everything on her way to fin her husband when she fled Kweilin during the war? | Suyuan was horribly weak with dysentery. |
| What did she stuff into the twin girl babies shirts before she walked away to die? | Before walking away to die, Suyuan stuffed valuables and information into each of their shirts, along with a note asking that someone take care of them and return them to her address in Shanghai. |
| Why did she abandon the twins? | She had dysentery and did not was her babies to die with her. |
| When did Suyuan find out that her first husband had died? | When Suyuan woke in the care of missionaries and when she reached Chingking, she found that her first husband was dead. |
| Who found An-mei's twin girl babies? | A peasant woman named Mei-Ching who lived in a cave during the war with her husband and they cared for Chwun Yu and Chwun Ha. |
| Did anyone the peasant woman try to return the twins. | Yes, after her husband died, but the address was now a factory and Suyuan and Canning had already left for America. |
| Who did Suyuan ask to help look for her twins? | Over the years, Suyuan wrote to many old friends in China asking them to look for the twins. |
| What did Canning think caused An-mei's aneurysm? | Canning thinks the possibility of the twins death,which he must have accidentally planted in her mind, grew until it killed her as an aneurysm. |
| How were the twins found? | After Suyuan's death, her schoolmate happened upon the long-lost sisters by accident and gave them Suyuan's addressin San Francisco. |
| What did the twins do when they recognized her and Canning when they got to the Shanghai airport? | They embrace. |
| What did they see in the polaroid Canning took of the three sisters together? | As it develops, they see their mother's features come to life in their faces. |
| Did An-mei's "long-cherished wish" come true? | Yes as the mother's features were seen in the polaroid of the three sisters. |
| What is it that makes Waverly and Jing-mei realize they are truly their mothers' daughters? | Their physical appearances |
| What is the advantage of a double face with respect to a tiger? | Just as a tiger's tow-colored stripes lets it stalk its prey unseen, a person can use her Chinese face in some situations and her American fact in others. |
| What does Lindo and Waverly see when they look in the mirror together? | Not only their own faces, but all the past home of therir mothers and the future hopes of their daughters. |
| What are the meanings of "a Pair of tickets"? | Chwun Yu and Chwun Hwas are themselves "a pair of tickets" in fulfiling Suyuan's wish, and in Jing-mei's heritage & relaitonship with Suyuan, and might need their own "pair of tickets" to get back to America, |
| What do the daughters' inherit? | A sense of being Chinese that is special to them, each daughter's Chinese identity is as individual as the name her mother chose for her. |
| When does the climax come in the story? | At the very end when Jing-mei meets the sisters amd understamds the point about shared spirit. |
| What is the climax? | When Jing-mei understands her Mother, Suyuan's, deep wish to be able to pass on her legacy. |
| What is the continual theme? | The continual theme: mothers and daughters in all generations are different "translations" of the same capable, compassionate andunbreakable spirit. |
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