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In what way is a daughter the “American Translation” of her mother? Choose a mother/ daughter pair and discuss.**

In the novel __Joy Luck Club__ by Amy Tan, four mothers and daughters portray themselves with common but significant relationship. Sometimes there are conflict between the mothers and daughters, but this is because of their culture difference. Although Jing Mei is the American translation of Suyun, Jing Mei and Suyun are connected with invisible chain. Therefore Jing Mei and Suyun are physically and mentally similar.

Jing Mei is the daughter of Suyun. She is very independent, jealousy, and malleable character. As she grow up Jing Mei starts to become more independent. In the story, “Two Kinds” Jing Mei shows her independent. When Suyun schelduled a piano performance on the stage, Jing Mei gets frustrated and starts to not listen to her mother. “.. I felt as though I had been sent to hell.” (Tan, 146) She admitted that she was not smart like other people. “ I’m not a genius! I can’t play the piano.” (146) Later Jing Mei gives up on playing the piano. She doesn’t practice during her lesson. Then it was time for the performance. Since she didn’t practice at all, she wasn’t able to perform in front of many people. This shows her independent. Although she knew what was going to happen on the stage, she didn’t practice her piano because she was taking a charge of herself. Yet her mother made her to play piano, starting from the practice she knew that she wouldn’t do something that she doesn’t want to do. From this she was fully responsible for herself.

Suyun is also very strong and independent woman. Since Suyun is Jing Mei’s mother, Suyun can be seen as Chinese translation of Jing Mei. She was also struggle to find happiness instead of hardship. She loved her daughter too much, sometimes expressing too extremely. Just being independent like her daughter Jing Mei seems like Jing Mei si true American translation of Suyun in the novel, __Joy Luck Club__. (need one more sentence from the book)

As Suyun and Jing Mei was born and raised in different place, Jing Mei is known as Suyun’s American translation. Power of daughter and mother is connected with something that can’t be broken. In the story “Two Kinds”, the reason why Suyun made her daughter to perform in front of people was because of jealousy. She was jealous of Waverly. Waverly was chess genius and Suyun also wanted her daughter to become like her.

As Suyun and Jing Mei were different in many ways, they were always connected with invisible chain. They were both jealousy, malleable, and independent and strong willed women. In the different part of the story of Jing Mei and Suyun, it seems like the stories were repeating several times, because as we read the story about Jing Mei after the Suyun, Jing Mei was going through same youngster life, teenager life, and adult life.