Ghost

To me, a ghost is an invisible or sometimes visible object that makes me feel afraid. I think my definition of a ghost is a kind of same meaning which is used in The Scar. In this story, Lena's my mother was treated as a ghost. It meant that Lena would not be able to see her. Also it meant that whenever Lena sees her because her grandmother hate Lena's mother like crazy, she blamed Lena and also Lena's mother and it made Lena feel afraid because something always happened when she sees her mother. I think the word 'ghost' helped this character being a more complex image. If it did not mention about ghost, the readers would just feel pity on her because she can not see her daughter. But because 'ghost' came up in the story, the readers could feel that she is having a miserable life and understand how Lena feels about it. Also because of it, I think the readers could see Lena's mother is forgotten by force of Lena's grandmother just like we can not see the ghost.

virtues and weakness of Lindo Jong

I think Lindo Jong made good attempt. The attempt to teach her daughter that she learned was nice as a parent. she also tried to give her daughter that two advantages at the same time by giving her daughter American circumstances and Chinese character which she thought that it is good way. I think she really cared about her daughter because if she wasn't, she would not try to teach her daughter chess or force her to do something. Also if she did not really want Waverly to be in better life, she would not name her after the streets. So as a mom, trying what she think was good is a virtue.

Even though she tried to give Waverly good things, she overacted too much. She forced Waverly till she feels ashamed of her mom. I think when parents want their children to do something what they want them to do, they should not force them but explains them why they want them to do like that. She used her to satisfy her self-pride by forcing to come to where she is and presenting her to every shops. Also she told Waverly that she has no concerns for her family because she almost reject what her mom wants her to do. It is also wrong that she tells that kind of words because no one in the world does not care about his or her family, and I think it probably hurts Waverly.

The Joy Luck Club

I think this four stories, I read till now, are related by the narrators. What I could find similarities in those four stories were that they are all women, they have painful memories of childhood, they are narrators, and they are lonely. Those are the similarities but I think the most important similarity in these stories is they all went through the hard situations which we need to learn. In these four stories, they have similarities but they have all different stories. The first and second stories were about relationship between them and their mother. The third and forth stories were about the China's different cultures or maybe it is about how people in China treat the women. Even though they are from China, one does not know her mother well, one is forced to get away from her own mother, one is engaged by her parents at the age of two, and lastly, one lives with wrong notion. I thought this book is very interesting because while it is one book, it shows very different situations with the different narrators and their feelings. those feelings are all about the sadness here but those stories make anyone feels same way like the each narrators could feel. As I read I thought that these stories mainly showed that no one has perfect happy life and everyone has wounds, and what I need to learn from these stories is I need to go through the hard situations that might come to me one day. 

Everything goes down

Everything went down.

Look like there is no one left.

Look like there cannot be one.

But tiny fairies follow the light through the old windows.

Glow like never again, dance like never again.

But once the light moves on to other fairies,

They lost their beauty and stays wherever they reached.

Everything once glowed go down.