![]() ![]() ![]() They want to eat hamburgers in the hotel room. ![]() The relatives are thrilled by how fancy it all is. They all go to a hotel, which June assumes must be very expensive but turns out to be cheap. June meets the rest of the family, having trouble remembering any words in Cantonese. She recognizes him from a photograph he sent. Suddenly June's father's aunt comes out of the crowd. Everyone died when a bomb fell during the war. She is tall-her mother always told her that she might have gotten this from her mother's father, but they would never know, because everyone in the family was dead. In the crowded streets of China, June feels like a foreigner. Then June convinced Lindo that this was cruel, so Lindo wrote another letter telling them Suyuan was dead. At first, Lindo and the others wrote a letter telling the other sisters that Suyuan was coming. When a letter from them had finally come, Suyuan was already dead-a blood vessel had burst in her brain. Then, in Shanghai, June will meet her mother's other daughters. June is going with her father to visit his aunt, who he hasn't seen since he was ten. On a train in China, June feels that her mother was right: she is becoming Chinese, even though she never thought there was anything Chinese about her. The Joy Luck Club Chapter 16, Jing-mei Woo, A Pair of Tickets ![]()
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