One of Suyuan’s twin daughters from her first marriage. She is rescued between the cities Kweilin and Chungking in 1944, after Suyuan places her and her twin on a busy road. Suyuan, fearing that she’s dying, believes her daughters will be saved if they seem orphaned. Chwun Hwa grows up in China and reunites with her half-sister June at the end of the novel.
Wang Chwun Hwa Quotes in The Joy Luck Club
The The Joy Luck Club quotes below are all either spoken by Wang Chwun Hwa or refer to Wang Chwun Hwa. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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A Pair of Tickets
Quotes
I look at their faces again and see no trace of my mother in them. Yet they still look familiar. And now I also see what part of me is Chinese. It is so obvious. It is my family. It is in our blood. After all these years, I can finally be let go.
Related Characters:Jing-mei “June” Woo (speaker), Suyuan Woo, Wang Chwun Yu, Wang Chwun Hwa
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Page Number and Citation:
288
Explanation and Analysis:
At the end of the novel, June finally reunites with her long-lost siblings. As she does so, she feels that she's also accomplished a task she's been attempting for many years. June has been interested in tracking down her siblings, and yet she's always felt a sense of incompleteness, both because of her strained relationship with her mother and because of her ignorance of and disconnection from her own culture. By traveling to China and finding her half-sisters, June honors her mother's memory, both respecting her mother's heritage and completing the task that Suyuan herself was never able to do.The Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis consectetur et. Dicta impedit ut. Ducimus
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Wang Chwun Hwa Character Timeline in The Joy Luck Club
The timeline below shows where the character Wang Chwun Hwa appears in The Joy Luck Club. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Part 4, Chapter 4: A Pair of Tickets
...enters the conversation to ask their names; Canning says their names are Chwun Yu and Chwun Hwa . June then inquires about the meaning of her Chinese name, Jing-mei. Canning defines “jing”...
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...same face again on someone else, and realizes they are her sisters, Chwun Yu and Chwun Hwa . “Hesitations and expectations forgotten,” they run together and embrace, whispering Suyuan’s name in unison....
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