Winnie In The Kitchen God's Wife Sparknotes

Parents migrate to America as a means of providing a better future full of opportunity for their children and themselves. The mothers have a deep determination to give all the things they were unable to attain to their daughters. They work very hard to save money for their daughters best interests because some of them have faced hardships. Nonetheless, their daughters regard them as cheap and uneducated. Storytelling is an effective way of clearing the daughter’s misunderstandings about their mothers. It allows getting a point across because it not only involves the use of words, but actions, gestures, facial expressions, and emotions as well. It engages the listener quite well by providing vivid imagery in the process. The mothers bring

Winnie’s father sees her mother’s betrayal in Winnie, due to their resembling appearance, thus, he can’t tolerate Winnie any longer. Winnie isn’t treated as well as she could have been if she were with her own family. The problems in her life continue on when her marriage is arranged with Wen Fu because he’s a very dominating and mentally and physically abusive husband. During the period of World War II, Winnie meets Jimmy Louie, an American Chinese soldier. He provides her with the care and respect that she never got from Jimmy. He pushes her to attain divorce, so both of them can happily settle together in America. Wen Fu gets revenge by raping Winnie before she leaves to the foreign country. Winnie doesn’t alert Jimmy of her rape, so when Pearl is born in America, he believes that she’s his child. Later, Pearl finds out that she is the daughter of Wen Fu, not Jimmy’s. After carefully listening, Pearl

If it wasn’t for he mother’s escape, she would’ve been living a similar unpleasurable life that had took plight in Lindo’s past. It’s time that she starts establishing a little room for a Chinese character within her personality.
In The Bonesetter’s Daughter, instead of the mother, GaoLing tells Ruth Xin that LuLing often wondered why she was always ignored by her mother, in favor of her GaoLing, herself. She then discloses that LuLing is the daughter of Precious Auntie, a mistress of her father, who committed suicide. After her mother’s death, Luling’s sent to an orphanage and no longer accepted in the family because they believe Precious Auntie’s spirit will haunt them if her daughter is in the same house as them. Hence, Luling completes her education to become a teacher at the orphanage. Throughout, World War Two, she tries her best to protect the students from the Japanese soldiers and other dangers they put forth such as rape. Close to that time period, she meets up with GaoLing, who escapes from her brutal husband. The two sisters then find a means of immigrating to America by marrying two brothers, Edmund and Edwin. However, LuLing stays behind in Hong Kong, when she had the opportunity to first because she felt her sister needed more freedom. Ruth also finds out part of this story by deciphering her mother’s text in her journal