Connector

3-131 (Kate) This story is about a typical family. I think anyone can relate to this family most families on tv are based off this. The current parents don't like their parents, or any of the family and try to avoid them as much as possible. Except when one of thier moms calls and says someone is getting married although they try and escape going they get another call saying someone died, so now they must go. When the family gets there they haven't really explained to their two small girls what is going on. So just like any other small child they see a dead person and make a major scene.

132-201 (Thuy) WeiWei (Winnie) is in the point of her story when she talks about her marriage-to-come and her family. Her marriage is almost as if it were pre-arranged, she said nothing as to whether she approved or disapproved, although her father asked for her opinion. " 'Daughter, what do you think?' " (Tan 174). This could happen. Often people can not really speak their opinions if it were against what some one believes. Although there is a freedom of speech, saying the wrong things at the wrong time, can get you in trouble. For example, if you strongly believed that the president is a bad person and you threaten to kill him, you could get in trouble big time. There is another part of her story, when she is united with her estranged father. "So I did not know whether he would be mad or happy to see me. I did not know whether I should be fearful or happy to see him" (Tan 170). There has been many cases in which an adopted child, for example, finds their biological mother and father and they are not sure how they should act or what it would be like. It must be very similar to what WeiWei was feeling as she went to meet her father.

Kate 297-398 This book kind of reminds me of secret life of the american teenager. Not one of the familys really like everyone and someone is always fighting with someone, although the daughter doesn't get pregnant the mother does randomly.

Johnny 5-4-10 This story has some similarites with a story from the Joy Luck Club called "Two Kinds". In both stories, the main characters are a mother and daughter who do not get along. For example, in this story, Winnie always talks, "like being in the middle of an argument." (Tan 5) In Two Kinds, the story is climaxed with an intense argument. In both stories, the mother is Chinese, and the daughter is Chinese American as well