How is the external setting of “A Pair of Tickets” essential to what happens internally to the narrator in the course of this story?
What will be an ideal response?
- “A Pair of Tickets” is a story that grows naturally out of its setting. June’s journey to China is one of both external and internal discovery. Finding China, she also finds part of herself. Tan announces the theme at the end of the first paragraph: “I am becoming Chinese.” China becomes a spiritual mirror for the narrator, just as her glimpse of her half-sisters’ faces provides a living mirror of her own and her late mother’s face. One might say that “A Pair of Tickets” is the story of Americanized June May Woo (born, as her passport says, in California in 1951) becoming Jing-mei Woo by discovering her ethnic and cultural roots in her ancestral homeland.
Language Arts & World Languages
You might also like to view...
A proposal to the city council for a contract to design and develop a new downtown community entertainment complex would be classified as
(a) a solicited, internal research proposal. (b) an unsolicited, external planning proposal. (c) a solicited, internal planning proposal. (d) a solicited sales proposal. (e) None of these answers are correct.
Language Arts & World Languages
How many ages in life does Shakespeare describe?
_____ a. five _____ b. ten _____ c. seven _____ d. three
Language Arts & World Languages
Which of the following is used by the Library of Congress Classification system
to signify the general topic of political science? a) G b) J c) PQ
Language Arts & World Languages
Generally, the thesis statement is the first sentence in the introduction
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Language Arts & World Languages