Tiff and Rahni, Y YO STORY SO GOOD?!!

    The family stories that I have in common with are Tiffany Cao and Rahni Johnson because they show how their family struggle and how they are here today. First in Tiffany story she talks about her parents leaving the country to be safe because there was a war going on in the country and the only way to be safe is to leave. Since, they were not able to leave with permission they would have to sneak out the country the best way they knew how.

“...moving for country to country. It was easy to blend in, but somehow we got caught, and my parents went to jail.”

This is similar and minds me of my story because it shows all the effort her parents did to come to America and how to give up what they had at home. Also they would have to risk everything they had like my parents to leave the country. Her parents did have a harder time leaving and went to jail but both our parents have the same reasons for living and that’s to keep their family safe.
    In Rahni analysis, she talks about how she appreciated her family for what they have done to provide for their family and how she reflects on how if her family did not do what they did then she wouldn’t be here today.

“This story also tells me how strong my family is, we have been through a lot, and if they gave up back then to take the easy way out, then I would not be here today.”

In addition, this is similar to my analysis because we both see that our parents that without them we would not be here today. Also they have put their family first in all their life and what they have for the future. If they did not do what they hve done for us then none of us would be here today and saying this in out analysis is kind of a way to say thanks to our parents and to show them that we do understand and get that without them, our life would not be the same. Also everything they have done if or u

Cyclical, Y U NO STOP?!

     In the book the Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan shows a pattern of a mother and daughter relationship it is like a cyclical because in the beginning of the story with Waverly and her mom share a very close connection. Lindo Jong, who is the mother wanted her daughter to come here and try to make her strong also to want her to become Americanize. Lindo came her to get her daughter to have the American life and she is able to get everything in life and hopefully take over her place in time.
      In addition, in the beginning of the story shows how Waverly is able to take the role of her mother and becomes the care taker of her sister when her mom past away. Waverly is taking over the place but also given the power like her mom had to tell the truth to her sister. Also, the story shows how even though Lindo Jong wanted to Americanize her daughter but she ends up making her closer to her culture because she returns back to China in the end. Showing the pattern that when a mother raised her daughter so much and want them to end up with a life the mom always wanted that the daughter would end up like the mom. There is a mom and daughter bond, and the cultural cycle that is shown.
     The point of the cyclical element of the book is to show the audience the pattern that goes in the book and the background behind. Also that everything the mothers do will have an effect in the daughters like but they will turn into them at some point. In addition, the beginning and ending shows how the effects of everything that has happen.  Also how the mothers has raised their daughters to live outside their culture but they end up running back to where they have came from. Furthermore the daughters act like their mothers because they want to put their family first and hold onto the tradition. This is the reason in my opinion for the cyclical that is shown by Amy Tan in the novel.

Mom and Dad you are the best.

My parents were raised during the Vietnam war as they were getting older they knew that to get a better life for their family they would have to move to the United States. When my parents got married and had my sister. My dad and his brothers were forced to work in mining for the communist. They did not want to work because they were scared of getting sick or losing their family so they decided to take their family and run. So, my parents, my uncles and their family decided to leave Vietnam, my sister had to stay behind because she was only 6 months old and they did not want her getting hurt or having to suffer during their journey.
In April 1899, my parents and the others sneaked their way onto the boats. Unfortunately, my uncles and their family did not make it onto the boat because the police have captured but my parents were able to get away. On the small boat, that only fitted forty people, it would take them 7 days to get from Vietnam to the Philippines. My dad on the boat worked on the machines and help with what he could on the boat. Since, he had no money to pay the owner of the boat, my dad had to work for him during the time. They would have to live 7 days without any food or water, at one point my parents did not know how they were going to survive.
When they arrived to Palawan Philippines, they entered a refugee camp where they would be living for the next couple of years, they were able to leave the camp to get some food or anything they please. Both my parents did not have any money and they were starving when they saw a store and the people were eating food and drinking they could not stand but had to get something. My mom decided to exchanged her wedding ring for  Coca-Cola and that started their life in the Philippines.

They will be living in the refugee camp for the next 7 years and it was going to be one of the most difficult time of their life. But they good thing was they would not have to deal with communism and be happy with each other in the end. Both my brother and I were born in the Philippines. When my brother was born my parents were just starting their life together and they had what they needed to start a stable family. It was the point of starting something new and getting a good life until my brother started to get sick. He was in and out the hospital and my parents had no idea what to do. He kept getting sick, my parents couldn't take care of him cause they had to work but they tried the best they could. My mom worked at a market and my dad sold and fixed machines for a living but they did not make much money to get my brother a good doctor. So my brother had to go in and out the hospital for awhile.

As the years went on my parents started to struggle more and 2 years after my brother was born, they gave birth to me. When I was born, my parents started to realized that they are unable to raise two kids on their own and thought it was time to go back to their family in Vietnam. So, they planned to go back to Vietnam and hoped that it was safe to come back and have a family there. They plan that if they would want to raise their children it would be around family and it was time to return home. Well, this is the first half of my parents story, to set out a life they want for their family. There is more to the story and the ending is a great one because when they came to the United States it was the beginning of a story for our family and our family story is still going on.
When my mom tells me this significant story about her journey of her life, I am speechless of the things she is wiling to give up and to do for her family. My dad does not talk much about the past, he most talks about the war and how he did not want his family to have the life he had because it was hard. Growing up I knew that my parents have given up their whole life to raise their family in a safe place. So, all my family I knew that my role in the family is to be successful. I have to show my parents that they have given up their life and rick everything that have to make moving to the United States worth it. Also knowing this story just inspires me and shows me how much my parents have done and even though they can be strict or hard on me I know why and the reasoning behind it. They are the people that are giving me the chance to have this wonderful life that most people would wish they can have and I thank them a lot of that.
The reason my parents tell me this story about this journey is to give us a value to life. Also to show that if you really want something never give up because they really wanted a family and to give their children all the opportunity that they did not get, so they are teaching my siblings and I perseverance. My parents wants us to give us knowledge of where we have came from and never forget our past because that is who we are. My parents did not come from a lot but they are making it work and they want us to know that if they are able to survive for 7 days without food or water, then we are able to survive in school, work, and anything we put our mines to.
This story have connected to my life and me because without this story I would not be the person I am and where or what I am doing with my life and education. For example, knowing the story gave me a reason to pay back my parents for everything they have done for me and helped me realized that my life is worth being a success because I have two wonderful people believing in me every since I was born because they have never gave up. In addition, they have inspired me to do what I want with my life. I look up to my parents because what they been through not a lot people can say that they are able to do that and come here and get their children the life they always wanted.
My parents story is one of the most important stories of my life and I will never forget what they have told me and what they have been through to get here. I am thankful everyday for what they have done. It makes me really proud to be able to share this story to people and say ‘yeah my parents actually did that’.

What is wrong with you AMYS?!

In the book, the Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan talks about four Chinese women who moved to the United States with their family to get a better life for their children. In the second section of the book called, “The Twenty- Six Malignant Game” talks about the women’s daughter and how the moms forced their children into doing things causing their daughters to hate them in the end of the story. Also, this section of the book is very similar to an article named “Tiger Mom” by Amy Chua, because they share the same culture.

In the reading both stories share many similarities, in part of the section in “The Twenty- Six Malignant Game” the first part of section called, “Rules of the Game” Lindo Jong has forced her daughter into playing chess, Waverly Jong the daughter, had loved for the game and could play for hours but after awhile and how her mother had treated the game as a way of life Waverly did not want to play anymore. Lindo had forced her daughter too much and causing her to revolt. Just like Amy Chua did with her daughters by forcing them to play the piano everyday and making them practice until they were able to get it right. In the end, Amy’s youngest daughter got tired of her mother telling what to do and forcing her to play the piano so she decided to rebel against her mother. Like both moms they made the mistakes of forcing and pushing their daughters too much into they were no longer able to take their mothers and in the end rebel against them and started to hate them.

The differences in this story is that, at the end of the story of “Rule of the game” the mother daughter relationship had changed. Linda Jong does not talk to her daughter and looks at her in disgraced. She is not happy what her daughter has done and is not proud of what she has done. On the other hand, Amy Chua fought back against her daughter and she took a stand. Amy put more forced on what has happen, when Amy let the law down on her daughter and when her daughter decided that the fight was over and to take her mothers advice and played the piano again, the daughter was proud of herself. They’re relationship was stronger than ever before because the daughter has trust in her mother. The ending and how the mother reacted to the rebellion with their daughters is what makes them different.

Mom, Y U LET ME DO MY OWN THANG?!

In the book, Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, the second part of the book gives an introduction of what is going to foreshadow what  is going to happen in the next section of the book. The introduction shows a short story is a prediction of what is going to happen to the women's daughters in the future and how the they will end up rebelling against them. The moms in the story are controlling and except the best from their daughter.

In the first story, “Rules of the Game” Waverly Jong was a chess champion and is one of the best players but her mother except more from her. Instead of being allowed to do anything she wants, she is forced to play chess. Her mother is now forcing her into playing a game that she loves but soon, not to love anymore. When Waverly is pressure so much and gets into an argument with her mother, she runs away and that starts the rebellion against her mother. She eventually came back but her mother did not see her the same way, instead her mother is now disappointed and pays her no attention. This story of the book shows how the introduction and this section have in common. It is saying that if you forced someone into doing something so much and putting pressure, they will start to rebel.

The introduction gives out a theme on the section of the chapter. It sends an message to the audience that the moms in the story would like to stay in control of their child to keep them from getting hurt or rebelling but that ends up working against them because their daughter starts to hate them and rebel anyways. In the end the moms in the story will lose either way, what they are doing for their family is doing it in a good way but their daughter does not see it now.