LaTia Turner
December 14,
2014
3rd
Period
The Joy Luck Club Essay
Jing-Mei Woo does succeed to fulfill her mother’s legacy. She
succeeded because her wanted her to meet her twin sisters and tell them about
her before she died, and that’s exactly what she did.
One way Jing-Mei Woo succeeded her mother’s legacy was by
agreeing to write back to her sisters. For example, Jing-Mei Woo said, “‘they’ll
think she’s coming then,’ I murmured And I had imagined my sisters now being
ten or eleven, jumping up and down, holding hands, their pigtails bouncing,
excited that their mother-their mother-
was coming, whereas my mother was dead”(Tan 270). This is important because it
show how much she cares about what her sisters think, she wants them to know
the truth, she cares about them and believes that they should know what
happened to their mother.
Another way Jing-Mei Woo succeeded
her mother’s legacy is by making the decision not to tell her sisters about her
mother’s death. For example, Woo’s mother’s best friend, Auntie Lindo, disagreed
with Jing-Mei Woo by saying,” ‘She is their mother. She is your mother. You
must be the one to tell them. All these years, they have been dreaming of her.’
And I thought she was right”(Tan 270).This is important because she agreed
with Auntie Lindo that she should be the one to tell them because they’re her
sisters and they’re supposed to be close.
The final way that she succeeded her
mother’s legacy is by going back to China to meet her sisters. For example,
when Woo finally arrived and saw them, they embraced, and she stated in
thought,” Together we look like our mother. Her same eyes, her same mouth, open
in surprise to see, at last, her long-cherished wish” (Tan 288). This is important
because she finally realized what her mother wanted, she wanted all her
daughters to come together again, and this is moment when Jing-Mei Woo finally
realizes what her mother’s cherished wish was.
Jing-Mei Woo succeeded to fulfill her
mother’s legacy. Her mother wanted her to meet her twin sisters, that was her
cherished wish. She agreed to write back to her sisters, meet them in China,
and tell them about their mother. All throughout meeting her sisters she always
thought about how they would feel, which showed that she cared for them even
though she didn’t even know them yet, and that’s what her mother truly wanted.
