Feathers from A Thousand Li Away

This would be the first section of the Joy Luck Club. I had a feeling that the mother’s would start out with their stories first, just because it seemed like the right thing to do. One thing I noticed is that the mother’s dealt with a lot growing up in China and pretty much made one heck of a sacrifice for their daughters to have a better life in a better country and what they’re trying to say is that their daughter’s don’t understand that. Because her mother died a few year’s earlier, Jing-Mei has a big responsibility to take her mother’s place in Mah-Jong. The problem is, is that she doesn’t know anything about her mother or her life but only the fact that she has two older twin sister’s that her mother left behind as infants in China. So Jing-Mei tells us her mother’s story in second person. Suyuan keeps alot of things from Jing-Mei but I just don't understand why. I'm not sure if it's that she feels Jong-Mei is too young or because she is american and won't understand the chinese values. All of the mothers pretty much have done something the daughters wouldn't even think about doing because there is a difference between them and I think that is what the paragrapgh in the beggining is talking about. Because of the fact that they are from China they grew up much different than their daughters and they have completely different views on life and life values.