A Pair Of Tickets - Jing-Mei & SuYuan Woo

1. Repeated Themes

1.1. Self discovery

1.2. Regret

1.3. Understanding/Forgiveness

1.4. New Perspectives

2. Irony

2.1. Now that her mother is gone she finally finds her half-sisters

2.2. June feels like she understands her mother more now, after she is dead, than she did before she died

2.3. She reaches for and accepts her Chinese self - something her mom has wanted her to do for her whole life

3. Imagery/Symbolism

3.1. Polaroid camera

3.2. Three daughters reunite and they look like their mother

3.3. Twin babies - double good luck

4. Tone/Diction

4.1. A positive, yet somber, tone

4.2. Positive - when they meet up with the father's aunt and when they see the twin girls in the airport

4.3. Somber - when she is thinking about all the things she didn't know about her mother, things she wished she knew

5. Quotations

5.1. "No, tell me in Chinese. Really, I can understand" pg. 281 - asking about why her mother gave up the babies

5.2. "I forced myself to grieve more. It seemed as if I wanted to sustain my grief, to assure myself I cared deeply enough" pg. 278 - doesn't believe she cared enough

5.3. "The flash of the Polaroid goes off and my father hands me the snapshot. My sisters and I watch quietly together, eager to see what develops" pg. 288 - a foreshadow to what is yet to come