Two Tickets blog

I really liked this story. I think it was a great, perfect way to end the book and it was very inspirational. It was a great way to finally connect everything. All the daughters and mothers had finally connected and understood each other; except for Jing-Mei who couldn’t really because her mother was dead, but in this last story they managed to still have that understanding and connection even though she was dead. I found the last part of Suyan’s story was very cool and interesting. I also loved that we got to hear a little bit about the dad because we didn’t get to know a lot about the men in any of these women’s lives and the ones we did hear a lot about were because they had bad impacts on one of these women. Of course there were some exceptions to this like Rich and most of the mothers’ current husbands, but it was nice to sort of hear how one of them views things. Overall this was the best story because it is mostly happy unlike my other two favorites, the red candle one and the one about An-Mei’s mother as a concubine. I don’t really have a reaction to the name of this section, but it does sort of how people say that when someone you love dies that they’re always watching over you. I sort of get a picture of all the grandmothers and June’s mother watching over their daughters from the sky and west because that’s where the sun sets and people also say that when someone dies you can see them in the stars. As for the Queen Mother only one person comes to mind and seeing as I am a Catholic that person is Mary the Mother of God. The teachings are that she is the mother of all and watches over each and every one of us as if we were her only child.