A Pair of Tickets
This story is about a young Lady that lives in California with her mother and Father. She
is however Chinese, and refuses to believe she is.
This story is both a mystery and a suspense with in a way a tragically happy ending. By
the end of this paper I will show how I come to this conclusion. First I will tell the story in my
own words in a shorter version.
The lady telling this story is in her thirties. Both her parents are from China, her mother
left China in 1944. Her mother was married to another man at the time and had two twin
daughters. She was trying to get to her husband who was stationed in another town in the
military. She had been walking for three days trying to get a ride but had no luck. First she left behind her two suitcases and then the food she was carrying. After that she tried very hard to
either get a ride or to have someone take her girls for her. She was forced however to leave the
girls on the side of the road. She had to do this because she was becoming sick and she feared not
only for own life but also the lives of her daughters. She hoped that someone would come by
them alone and take them in. This was all her mother had told her about her two older sisters.
For years her mother had been trying to find her lost daughters, but had no luck. Even offering a
reward was no help. Her fondest dream was to find the girls, return to China and join both
families and make them into one happy loving one.
Unfortainitly, due to a suden brain aneurism her mother passed away before she could
forfill her dream. Three months after her mom died, her father got a letter in the mail. It was
addressed to her mother and it was from China. The girls had finally found their mother and
wanted to meet her. This letter made her father cry because here these two girls are, writing to his
wife and calling her mama.
The letter was given to her aunt and he asked her to write back to the girls and as nicely
as it could be done, tell them that their mother had passed away but that she never gave up
In this essay, the author
- Narrates the story of a young lady who lives in california with her mother and father.
- Opines that the story is both a mystery and suspense with tragically happy ending. by the end of the paper, they will show how they come to this conclusion.
- Narrates how the woman's mother left china in 1944 and had two twin daughters. she was forced to leave the girls on the side of the road because she was becoming sick and feared for her own life.
- Narrates how three months after her mom died, her father received a letter addressed to her mother from china. the girls had finally found their mother and wanted to meet her.
- Narrates how the sister took it upon herself to write back to the girls and tell them that their mother had passed away but that she never gave up looking for them.
- Narrates how the mother, with her father beside her, set out on a long journey to china, stopping to see an aunt that he has not seen since age ten. she left the two babies on the side of the road alone, hoping someone would take them.
- Narrates how the lady who found the twins decided it was time to find their real mama and family after her husband died.
- Narrates how an old school mate of her mothers finally found the girls, by chance, while out shopping. she remembered that her friend had asked her for her help in finding them, but she had told her that it was impossible.
- Describes a woman and her elderly father going to china to meet the long-lost twins of her dearly departed mother. she hears "she's arrived" and sees two women that at first look so much like her mother, that they embrace for the first time.
- Narrates how the girl's mother had told her she would believe that she was chinese, but now she is. her father takes the first picture of the three girls together and realizes that neither one fully looks like their mother.
- Analyzes how the mother's dream of finding the girls and going to china to be together has finally come true. the story has a lot of heart and love in it.
- Describes the confusion of trying to understand why her mother left two small babies on the side of the road and not knowing if they are alive or dead, and the joy of finding her two long lost sisters.
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