"Ouch! That's hot!" is what a little boy would say when he takes a cookie off a hot oven pan. His hands will blister and hurt, but he will never grab the cookie off the pan again. Life is all about learning form experiences. The Joy luck club by Amy tan, is about 4 mother's and their daughters and each ones cycling from purity to soiling back to cleansing again. As the mother's travel from Asia to America, they encounter" unspeakable" tragedies in which they learn life lesson's from. Each mother hoping to teach their daughters lessons that she has learn so that her daughter does not have to experience tragedy first hand Lindo is one of the mother that experience an unhappy arranged marriage. Lindo's life is a cycle of the lost of her innocence and how she gained strength through a tragedy.
When a baby is born he is pure and innocent, not knowing what is right and wrong. Lindo's innocence and purity prevented her from seeing the harsh truth about her life. When Lindo was four years old she was arranged to be married to the wealthy neighbor's son. Arrange marriages were traditional in little towns, and it was an honor to marry into a higher class. If the arrange marriage vowels were broken than the br
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Honor is very important to Chinese people. Lindo wanted Weaverly to have the same characteristics that she had. Lindo hater her life and her marriage in which there was no love for her spouse. Under the entire obedient daughter act Lindo "was strong. Lindo promised herself that she would remember who she was and her ancestry. Her first marriage opened her eyes to the truth that her innocents blocked her from seeing about her life. Lindo "sacrificed (her) life to keep (her) parent's promise" of the arrange marriage. Lindo experience opened her eyes and taught her lessons about life. Separation Lindo from her family was already though enough for a girl her age, but to force her into marriage and to adopt a new mother must have been traumatizing for her. " Lindo did not realized how bad she was being treated. " Lindo was tired of being pushed around like one of the servants. Seeing how unhappy her marriage !
was she plotted to get out of it. " Lindo learned to " see what is underneath and feel the lightness come back into (her) body. (She) had genuine thoughts inside that no one could see, that no one could ever take away from me. Because of Lindo's innocent mind she felt that everything her mother in law told her to do was appropriate and never argued.
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