maytodecember
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Hello. I'm doing a project in school (summer homework for a preAP class) over the book The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan.
I'm having a problem with an interpretation question. Here's the question:
"What does the bible under the table leg in An-mei's home represent in this story?"
This is what the book says about it:
Pg. 122 1st and 2nd paragraphs,
As proof of her faith, my mother used to carry a small leatherette bible with her when she went to the First Chinese Baptist Church every Sunday. But later, after my mother lost her faith in God, that leatherette bible wound up wedged under a too-short table leg, a way for her to correct the imbalences of life. It's been there for over twenty years.
My mother pretends that bible isn't there. Whenever anyone asks her what its doing there, she says, a little too loudly, "Oh this? I forgot." But I know she see's it. My mother is not the best houskeeper in the world, and after all these years, that bible is still clean and white.
I was thinking that maybe it represents the ballace in here life? Or it is saying that when something was once important to you you can never really foget it or take it out of you'r life, it its still supporting you?
If anyone has imput I would apreciate it very much! Thanks!
I'm having a problem with an interpretation question. Here's the question:
"What does the bible under the table leg in An-mei's home represent in this story?"
This is what the book says about it:
Pg. 122 1st and 2nd paragraphs,
As proof of her faith, my mother used to carry a small leatherette bible with her when she went to the First Chinese Baptist Church every Sunday. But later, after my mother lost her faith in God, that leatherette bible wound up wedged under a too-short table leg, a way for her to correct the imbalences of life. It's been there for over twenty years.
My mother pretends that bible isn't there. Whenever anyone asks her what its doing there, she says, a little too loudly, "Oh this? I forgot." But I know she see's it. My mother is not the best houskeeper in the world, and after all these years, that bible is still clean and white.
I was thinking that maybe it represents the ballace in here life? Or it is saying that when something was once important to you you can never really foget it or take it out of you'r life, it its still supporting you?
If anyone has imput I would apreciate it very much! Thanks!
