be a pianist, and realized her mother just wanted June to go somewhere in life. June saw who she was at that time, and she was no one. June uses the element of earth and her mothers nurturing to see what her mother was trying to tell her by becoming a pianist. Her mother was trying get her to lead a successful meaningful life, unlike her mother's life.
             Earth can symbolize America and seeds, those of a flower, can symbolize the daughters. "To the mothers, the daughters are themselves reborn, a chance for the mothers to give them a better life than they had in China (Vlibrary 1)." According to this quote, the Chinese mothers raise their children in America so that they do not face the horrors of life in China. Symbolically, the mothers wanted to plant a Chinese daughter, with Chinese culture into American soil, so that the daughters would not have a tragic life as the mothers had in China.
             "June begins to see her mother's generation in a different light. Rather than viewing the aunties as expressionless aliens from an opaque and distant land who hound and embarrass their children, bit by bit she begins to understand the real dimensions of the unspeakable tragedies they had left behind in China (CLC 83)."
             In this quote, June realizes that Suyuan, her mother, only brought her to America so that she would not experience the tragedies her mother had went through in China. She also begins to understand the messages and philosophies of her aunites and her late mother.
             These seeds that had been planted in the American soil cannot grow without water, which helps to purify and help life progress. This water, which is showered on the children by the mothers, is the Chinese morals that the mothers teach to their young.
             "Their deepest wish (mothers), is to pass their knowledge, their tales, on to their children, especially to their daughters, but those young women are undergoing a slow death of their own; drowning in Ameri...