Rachel Huerta Period 4 3/9/10 The Bonesetter's Daughter The book the “The Bonesetter's Daughter” is by author Amy Tan. The book genre is fiction. The setting of the book takes place in two different eras. One is modern and the other decades before. The book takes place during the Civil War era, which took place during the 1840s in China. The main characters are Ruth, her mother Luling, Art, Ruth’s her husband, Kaijing, Luiling’s husband, and Precious Auntie. The story is about how a mother and daughter never had the best communication of their relationship, they always had trouble getting along. Later as she got older her mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. As she's going through these obstacles she found her mother's …show more content…
Luiling always was treated terribly as a child. She had a nursemaid who's name is Precious Auntie. Precious Auntie was very protective and strict when it came down to Luiling. She also always did her work, like gather her things, bathe her, wash her clothes, do her hair etc. Precious Auntie was the daughter of a bonesetter. Her father was killed. The fortunes ended up going to the family she lived with and thru took over bonesetting business. Precious Auntie always fought with Luiling, and one day it got very bad to the point Precious Auntie killed herself and was believed to put a curse on the cruel family she lived with. She killed herself because Luiling was going to marry the forbidden family that killed her father. Before Precious Auntie died she left Luiling a set of papers to read. As LUiling read them she found out her nursemaid was actually her mother. She loves her very much even though they always got into arguments. With this being said she loved her very much which made her very depressed.Since they believe Precious Auntie had a curse on them, they lost the business and grew poor. They sent Luiling and her sister Naoling to buy stuff with the remaining money. They found a blind girl who said a ghost had to tell Luling something. In the text it says “A dog howled, the moon rises, in darkness, the stars pierced forever, a rooster crows, the Sun rises, in daylight it's as if the stars never existed.” This quote is very important because the dog phrase is Luiling's nickname for her mother. her nickname was doggy. The second line is baby uncles poem which was her mother's husband who was killed. The rooster phrase is the year of her mother's birth, she was a rooster. This was said because it meant she was a dog that betrayed her since she was going to marry into the forbidden family. This is why she had such an impact on Luiling. The family she stayed with later sent her
In Fae Myenne Ng’s Bone, we are told the story of Chinese-American family that immigrated to the United States. The story deals with the loss of family, grief and the American Dream while also addressing the narrator’s ethnic background. But the one detail that really sticks out in the book is that it goes backwards in time, starting from when Leila is numb to the death of her sister to the moments after and before it happens. While this choice did stray from the normal conventions of stories, it was necessary in order to captivate the reader’s attention.
The book is narrated by a little girl named Jook-Liang (or just Liang). You are introduced to her and her family who live in Vancouver B.C. during the Great Depression. She lives in a rundown house with her father; her real mom (who she's made to call Stepmother); the "old one", the children's grandmother-- Poh-Poh; and 3 brothers. The oldest Kiam; second oldest-- an orphan the family adopted Jung-Sum; and then would be Liang; and then the youngest child Sek-Lung (or Sekky).
She is experience at first anger after finding out that Choyos husband couldn't take her Martas baby anymore. The anger then lead her to a decision she'll regret. Now she is experiencing a whole new feeling which is regret. She is having regret feelings because she has put a curse on Choyo baby. Then the regret feeling grows even more after finding out that curse she put on the baby never left even after Marta told Remedius to take off the curse from the baby. Choyo child had to go through a tough time to get rid of a disease that he had because of the curse. Then Choyo child sooner finds out that the cause of the disease was from the curse that Marta put on him. Choyos child shunned Marta after finding out which then lead to a new feeling. Which is the last feeling, sadness. Marta is sad because now she has lost the trust from her sister's child even though she is very sorry but still Choyos child is being stubborn and still take her apologies for what she
Living in Maryland, the narrator and her little brother Joey lived a very simple life. There mother had job that required many hours, and her father was unemployed and still in the process of trying to find a job. They lived in a very run down house in a very small poor community. One summer day, the narrator , Joey, and a group of kids from the community were bored and wanted to do something different. So,the narrator and the kids went down to one of the elders home, Miss Lottie. Miss Lottie was the old woman that everyone made stories about and for the kids they knew her as the witch. In the summer time Miss Lottie would always be in her front yard planting marigolds, which were an easy target to destroy. The kids all took part in throwing rock at Miss Lottie's marigolds, and the narrator was the coordinator. After they sprinted back to the oak tree, the narrator started to feel guilt for what she
The girl's mother is associated with comfort and nurturing, embodied in a "honeyed edge of light." As she puts her daughter to bed, she doesn't shut the door, she "close[s] the door to." There are no harsh sounds, compared to the "buzz-saw whine" of the father, as the mother is portrayed in a gentle, positive figure in whom the girl finds solace. However, this "honeyed edge of li...
For this paper I read the novel The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards, this novel is told in the span of 25 years, it is told by two characters David and Caroline, who have different lives but are connect through one past decision. The story starts in 1964, when a blizzard happens causing the main character, Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins. During the delivery the son named Paul is fine but the daughter named Phoebe has something wrong with her. The doctor realizes that the daughter has Down syndrome, he is shocked and age remembers his own childhood when his sister was always sick, her dyeing at an early and how that effected his mother. He didn’t want that to happen to his wife, so David told the nurse to bring Phoebe to an institution, so that his wife wouldn’t suffer. The nurse, Caroline didn’t think this was right, but brings Phoebe to the institution anyways. Once Caroline sees the institution in an awful state she leaves with the baby and
...cts of the mother and the descriptions, which are presented to us from her, are very conclusive and need to be further examined to draw out any further conclusions on how she ?really? felt. The mother-daughter relationship between the narrator and her daughter bring up many questions as to their exact connection. At times it seems strong, as when the narrator is relating her childhood and recounting the good times. Other times it is very strained. All in all the connection between the two seems to be a very real and lifelike account of an actual mother-daughter relationship.
Starting with the first stanza, Blake creates a dark and depressing tone. He uses words such as died, weep, soot, and cry to support this tone. In the first two lines the child shares his family with us, stating his mother’s death and the fact that his father sold him sharing that the child must come from a poor background “When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue”(Lines 1-2). The image of a poor child getting tossed into another unhappy place sets the tone for the beginning of this poem. Blake uses the word “weep”, instead of “sweep” in the first stanza to show the innocence of the child “Could scarcely cry weep weep weep weep”(3). The fact that the child cried “weep” instead of sweep shows that the child could not be any older than four. Blake describes that they sleep in soot also meaning they are sleeping in their death bed. The average life span of children who work in chimneys is ten years due to the harsh work environment. The child portrays sorrow in the last line of the first stanza “So your chimneys I sweep & in soot I sleep.”(4)
(Evaluate) Tan begins LuLing’s story by elaborating on LuLing’s relationship with Precious Auntie. Tan uses such affectionate diction to describe the feelings LuLing has for her; LuLing is the only person whom appreciates Precious Auntie, even though she does not think she is a blood relative of Precious Auntie. Tan uses an unkind simile directed towards Precious Auntie’s looks, to
Schell, Orville. "Your Mother is in Your Bones." Rev. of The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan. The New York Times Book Review. Mar. 19 1989: 3, 28.
Parents play a crucial role in the development of children, varying from culture to culture. Although imperative, the mother and daughter relationship can be trivial. Many women writers have exercised their knowledge and shared their feelings in their works to depict the importance and influence of mothers upon daughters. Jamaica Kincaid, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Kiana Davenport are only three of the many women writers who have included mother and daughter themes in their texts. These writers explore the journeys of women in search of spiritual, mental and individual knowledge. As explained by these authors, their mothers' words and actions often influence women both negatively and positively. These writers also show the effects of a mother's lesson on a daughter, while following women's paths to discovery of their own voice or identity. In Kincaid's poem, Girl; Hong Kingston's novel, Woman Warrior; and Davenport's short story, The Lipstick Tree, various themes are presented in contrasting views and contexts, including the influence of mothers upon daughters.
The poem of A Story by Li-Young Lee analyzes the coming of age of a son through the eyes and emotions of a father. On the surface, it seems like a simple situation of a father telling the son a story to entertain him. But it is upon closer inspection and deep analysis that reveals the true meaning of the poem that the poet is trying to convey to the reader.
The topic of this book is about a young girl growing up into slavery. In the book, the author does not disclose her name and makes up fictional names for the other characters. In her words, he does this to be “kind”. The main problem that the young girl addresses throughout the book and explains is there can be no good slave masters. The slave masters view the slaves, and a little more than an animal or object. This young girl/women throughout the book focus on slaves mental and spiritual focuses dealing with what they had to go through.
The main event is the death of the child, which has happened previously to the beginning of the poem. This event foreshadows the death of the marriage which will happen after the poem. The husband and wife go through the grief process in many different ways. The wife believes that her husband does not understand her or the grief in which she feels. Online 10, she shouts at him, “You couldn't care!...
This beautiful but depressing story moves you and shows us how thankful we are to have a loving family and not get abused and neglected like with Adeline. Niang verbally abuses her by calling her names like "ugly" and Father abuses her physically and this makes Adeline feel unwanted, sad, and lowers her self esteem. This story makes you think twice about how you treat your family and friends and to be thankful for what you have because some