Double Face and Tree blog

I feel really bad for Ying-Ying, but at the same time, I hate her and view her as a cold-blooded psycho-maniac murderer. I know I am just being stupid, biased, and prejudice, but I can’t help it. I want to feel bad for Ying-Ying, but I can’t because of how I view her. I know that I’m probably wrong about how I view her, but that’s Amy Tan’s stupid fault. I love Amy Tan and I hate her because of how she made me view Ying-Ying. I view her the way I do because she murdered her baby. In the movie, they make her love her baby and accidentally kill it after it is born, but in the book, its totally different because she says she killed the baby on purpose because of how mad she is at her husband. I suppose it could have been a mistake, but from the way it sounds, they make her like some murderer, but I don’t think that’s what Amy Tan wanted it to sound like, I think she wanted us to feel pity not hatred. I’m sure I’m wrong and my brain just interoperated what she said wrong and that Ying-Ying really is a good person, but I’m mad at Amy Tan for not making it clear what she wanted and I’m mad at myself or my brain for automatically coming up with this conclusion when I’m almost positive its wrong. As for Lindo, she has remained my favorite character, but in Gabby’s blog and other people say Lindo ended up loving her hair and how she looked, but I don’t remember reading that she liked it. Maybe I just missed that part somehow, but I definitely don’t remember it, all I remember is them looking in the mirror and the mom getting mad at the daughter because her nose is crooked and the barber said Lindo and Waverly looked alike. Either way I liked this story because Lindo and Waverly really, finally understood each other and connected. I also liked how Lindo saw herself in her mother and Waverly saw herself in Lindo and probably later in her life Waverly’s daughter will see herself in Waverly. It really reminded me of one of the other mother’s (I think it was An-Mei, but I don’t remember) when she said they were like stairs, each one slightly different, but at the same time still the same. The picture I get in my mind when I remember this story is sort of like the scene in the first Harry Potter book when he is looking in the mirror and sees his parents, only what I imagine is Lindo and Waverly at the hairdresser, looking in the mirror and you see three faces, Lindo’s mother, Lindo, and Waverly. Although, Lindo’s mother wasn’t there her sort of faded face in the mirror shows her presence and I imagine them all smiling, proud of each other and proud to be related to each other. Also, as I said before I can’t see her face, and her face isn’t in that scene, but I can imagine later Waverly in Lindo’s place seeing both Lindo and Lindo’s mother and Waverly’s daughter in Waverly’s place.