3. During the war in 1944, Suyuan Woo was subjected to great tragedy. With her twin infants she fled on foot from their home in Kweilin as soon as she learned the Japanese were coming to invade and capture. For many torturous days Suyuan carried her babies with the hope of reaching ChungKing where her husband was stationed. Injured, ill, and exhausted Suyuan knew her body would soon give up and die. She did not want to see her babies suffer and slowly die so she forced herself to abandon the girls, not even a year old, on a road with hope of some caring person finding them to give them the life that she felt she could not. She continued walking with death beside her until she fainted. When she woke she was in a truck driven by rescuers headed toward ChungKing. She went to her husband’s station only to learn that he had been killed two weeks earlier. She become delirious and mad. Hospitalized, she met her future husband Canning Woo. They would later movie to the United States and bore one daughter, Jing-Mei. Over 40-years had passed since 19

12. When you’re time has come you must believe that you’re not gone. You’re only away.

« Wang Fuchi was Suyuan’s first husband as well as the father of the twins. He was a Chinese soldier stationed in ChungKing during the war in 1944. He was killed two weeks before Suyuan had arrived in ChungKing.

7. Seventy-Two year old Canning Woo and his 36-year old daughter Jing-Mei leave by train from Hong Kong to Shenzhen, China. Jing-Mei automatically feels like a different person. Her mother, Suyuan, vigorously denied that Jing-Mei had any Chinese whatsoever below her skin when she was just 15-years old. In China, Jing-Mei states that she is turning Chinese.

Canning and Jing-Mei get off the train in Guangzhou where Canning will reunite with his aunt Aiyi who he hasn’t seen since he was 10-years old. Sitting across from her father, Jing-Mei sees for the first time her father cry. He has tears in his eyes as he looks out the train window and sees his homeland China.

6. The narrator is Jing-Mei “June May” Woo. She is the 36-year old American born daughter of Suyuan and Canning Woo. She tells the story from a first-person point of view.

Some topics in this essay:
Chwun Hwa, Chwan Hwa, Suyuan Woo, Pair Tickets”, Canning Woo, Jing-Mei Canning’s, United Suyuan, Amy Tan’s, Jing-Mei Canning, Mei Ching, chwun hwa, chwun yu chwun, chwun yu, yu chwun hwa, yu chwun, canning woo, “a pair, “a pair tickets”, pair tickets”, auntie lindo, jing-mei chwun yu, jing-mei canning, joy luck, 1944 suyuan, chungking husband stationed,