Character's Turning Point In The Joy Luck Club
there are mnay ideas that support teh turning points that the characters have in their changes from adolescence to adulthood. in the joy luck club, an-mei hsu's mother, the one most commonly referred to as the shunned "ghost mother". Although her turning point was not necessarily from adolescence to adulthood, it was a turning point for herself and her daughter. The turning point in an-mei hsu's mother began when she was invited for dinner by the rich couple whom she met with on a boat. after being raped that evening by the husband of the couple, she was ashamed and despised herself. Out of this shame, she was forced into a marriage which caused her to become the fourth comcubine of the man. since she was just recently widowed adn still in mourning at the time of her rape and new marriage, from her chinease sustoms, heritage, adn traditions, she was hence shunned by her family and preceived as a "ghost". an-mei hsu, her daughter, never really learned why her mother was perceived to be a "ghost" until she choose to come live with her mother. from this she learned from her nurse who her mother really was. this became a turning point fro an-mei, for now she could acknowledge and know of the tragedy her mother had suffered through, and how the family they lived with really treated her and her mother.
her mother, however, realized what an-mei wasliving through at her new home she had taken an-mei to, and out of her own shame, despair, and sorrow, she killed herself to give an-mei what spirit she had left in her. her hopes were that an-mei might grow up strong and live a goood life. the turning point for the mother was when she realized the only way out she had left was to kill herself and give an-mei her remaining spirit. for an-mei, it was the simple fact of her realizing what her mother had gone through and then done fro her, and that she had a voice of her own which she soon learned to use, instead of being dictated to like her mother was....
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