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I think the major themes of are having a voice and standing up for yourself and working hard to use your best qualities to the best of your ability to get what you deserve. The last one was sort of hard to put into words, especially to summarize it. What I am trying to say reminds me a lot of a certain Bible story, I’m not sure if it is from the Old Testament or the New Testament, but I think it is from the new one, but it’s the point made or the moral of the story that’s important to this theme. The basic plot line is that a man gives out a bunch of money to his servants and says he wants them to do what they think is best with the money and he will come back in a few years to collect the money. When he comes back years later he goes to the first group of servants and asks what they have done with the money and for whatever they have left or made back. The first group squandered away all of his money for their own uses and don’t have any left. He is disappointed in this group and moves on to the second group. He asks what they have done with their money and for it back. These very loyal servants of his tell him they invested the money for the better and in return have made three times as much as he originally gave them and offer to get the money, but instead he tells them not to and that he very pleased with what the have done. He tells them that his plan was only to see what they did with his money and since he knows they used it so well he tells them to keep all the money and that he is very proud of them. He then goes to the third group and asks them what they did with his money and for it back. They tell him they hid away the money and never used it for anything. They assume he will be pleased they kept his money and never squandered it away, but instead he is outraged. They ask why he so outraged at them, but not at the servants who squandered away the money and he tells him that when he left he told them to use the money to best of their ability and then return it when he returned. Instead though, they didn’t use it for anything, the first group may have not used as they should have, but at least they followed his orders to use it to the best of their ability, and second group used it as they should, to the best of their ability and for the best. Jing-Mei would be in the last group because this story was a metaphor for the talents God gives us when we are born. Waverly is right her work isn’t good enough, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be. This is what Suyan is trying to say by agreeing with Waverly, and this is how An-Mei feels about Rose letting Ted control everything. They both have the talent, but neither use their talents and are like the last group of servants who will always be servants to others. The second group were no longer servants because they used their money and became rich and were now equal to the man they used to work for because they used them correctly. These servants are now lords and are being treated as they deserve. The last group could have also become lords, but instead they just remained lowly servants. Rose and June are like this because they could be treated better and they could be “lords”. So what I think their mothers are trying to say is that it’s not too late to use their talents, to make their lives better because at the moment their lives aren’t good enough for what they deserve. Suyan is just trying to tell June this, but An-Mei is trying to tell Rose this and that she herself was like this once, as was her mother. It was too late for her mother, but she managed to give An-Mei the best she could and now An-Mei wants to give her daughter this too, but she can’t because it isn’t in her hands anymore it’s in Rose’s so the best she can do is tell Rose this and warn her before it’s too late to have the life she deserves.