Rose And Her Mother An-Mei Summary

The stories of Rose and her mother An-Mei fit the theme of this unit by showing how immigration and becoming part of the “melting pot” is not as easy as many people think. Both mother and daughter struggled with family communication because of culture and language barriers between each person’s assimilation to the American culture. For example both tolerate each other in various ways but are able to make their situations and differences in culture work out in the end. Also even though many stereotypes can be related to to in the event of assimilation, An-mei and Rose prove the fact that immigrants and their children are exactly the same when in fact the are very diverse considering the parents born in a high context culture and their children born in America struggle between living in both high and low context cultures. This fact is also proof that culture changes from generation to generation.
For example, when I talk to my mom I have trouble understanding what she means and sometimes it does seem like she is from a foreign country, but in reality it is just simply the fact that America changes so quickly that the culture when she was a teen is very different than it is now. This is the reason I do not understand her concepts of morals and what is right and wrong. However I feel she has done a great job of teaching me her ways as well as teaching me what take away from my culture to help me in the future. Basically, this makes me very similar to the character Rose in the way that I can understand both what she wants me to do and what my generation wants to do. by understanding this I am able to compromise between both my mother’s and my own generation’s goals. Thus, the short stories from the Joy Luck Club have been empathetic to my own life’s