- told her story different ways to her daughter

- as she grew older the real version was told to her daughter

- defines people by 5 elements

- expected high expectations for her daughter

"... Believed you could be anything you wanted to be in America... You can be prodigy"(141)

Disorientation:

- bombings and fear of invasion of the Japanese

- tried to make the best out of it

- had to leave behind two daughters

" ' Your father is not my first husband. You are not those babies' "(14).

New orientation:

- kept 3 silk dresses she wore, keeping some part of her old self

- died with the secret of the two daughter's location

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Symbol meaning:

Suyuan judges people by their balance of the five elements.

Her mother left and she forgot about her mother. She had to grow with the pain of her leaving.

"The wound begins to close in on itself, to protect what is hurting so much..." (40).

Disorientation:

Her mom came back and entered her life again.

"I watched my mother, seeing her for the first time..." (37).

New Orientation:

She finally understood her mother.

"Here is how I came to love my mother. How I saw her in my own true nature" (40).

Symbol Meaning:

This symbol is "scar" in Chinese

She was forced into a marriage where she was treated as a servant. She became numb with feeling as she served the family

"What was happier than seeing everybody gobble down the shiny mushrooms and bamboo shoots I had helped to prepare that day..." (51).

Disorientation:

She becomes restless as she sees the sacred candle as a symbol of their marriage blow out.

"My throat filled with so much hope that it finally burst and blew my husband's end of the candle" (56).

New Orientation:

She forms a plan to escape the marriage, and she successfully pulls through.

"I got my clothes, a rail ticket to Peking, and enough money to go to America" (62).

Symbol Meaning:

The red candle symbolizes her freedom from her forced marriage.

Orientation:

- does not really identify with her culture

- did not understand her mother

- trying to get degrees in different subjects

- would be forced by her mother to be like a genius

Disorientation:

- feels obliged to join the Joy Luck Club after her mother had died

- realizes that she has two sisters who are missing/dead; if the former, has to tell them that mom died

- is told to also tell the sisters about her mom's life, like her personality and some of the stories she would tell her

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- had started to believe that she could not be anything that she wanted to be

New Orientation:

- refused to be pushed around by her mother's expectations

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She wished to play chess, but her mother didn't want her to. She learned from her brothers and continued to lean through an elder she met.

"By the end of the summer, Lau Po had taught me all he knew, and I had become a better chess player" (97).

Disorientation:

Her mother soon took pride in her daughter's wins, but she did not understand the game.

"...she said, "Next time win more, lose less" (98).

New Orientation:

Her mother became almost too prideful and began to embarrass her daughter by showing her off.

"'...its just so obvious. It's just so embarrassing'" (101).

Symbol Meaning:

The single white chess piece and many black chess pieces symbolize the last portion of the chapter where her mother is the black chess pieces and Waverly is the white

- believed in burning of the Five evils

- did not fully understand the meaning of the Moon Lady

DisOrientation:

- fell into the water and into a journey with the moon lady

New orientation:

- realized who the moon lady really was and her wish to be found mentally and physically

Symbol:

This symbolizes the truth Ling- Ling realizes at the end of the chapter and how she knows everything believed is not always true.

- Wants a divorce from her husband

- had focused and lived her life through Ted, her husband, who made every decision

disorientation

- she has trouble with recoveries

- remembers her brother and how everyone blamed themselves

- mother tried to save him from God and the Coiling Dragon in the sea

New Orientation

- she realizes her fate in half in attention and the other in expectation

- realizes that she must try and save her marriage

Textual Evidence:

" ... when you lose something you love, faith takes over... Pay attention to what you lost... undo the expectation" (140)

- wonders what her mother meant when she meant when her great-grandfather had sentenced a beggar with 'the death of a thousand cuts'

- wanted to know the worst thing that would happen from doing something wrong and how to avoid it

- would lie to her mom to try to prevent any bad complications

Disorientation:

- her mother felt 'unbalanced' when she got pregnant

- the baby was born with a birth defect and died

- heard screams coming from the Sorcis' apartment; thought that the mom was literally trying to kill her daughter

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New Orientation:

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