Joy Luck Club
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Identity Crisis Every person comes to a point in their life when they begin to search for themselves and their identity. Usually it is a long process and takes a long time with many wrong turns along the way. Family, teachers, and friends all help to develop a person into an individual and adult. P ....
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.... life trying to pull away from her Chinese heritage, and therefore also ends up pulling away from her mother. Jing Mei does not understand the culture and does not feel it is necessary to her life. When she grows up it is not "fashionable" to be called by your Chinese name (26). She doesn’t use, understand, or remember the Chinese expressions her mother did, claiming she "can never remember things [she] didn’t understand in the first place" (6). Jing Mei "begs" her mother "to buy [her] ....
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Page count: 4 (approximately 250 words per page)
