The short story, "A Pair of Tickets", by Amy Tan is about a Chinese-American girl named Jing-Mei, raised in San Francisco, which struggles with identity early in her life. Jing-Mei can be similar to a banana, yellow on the outside but white on the inside. Now 36 years old, she is on a train going back to China to meet her twin sisters that she never knew until her mother pasted away. She suffered from a blood vessel that busted in her brain. This secret has been kept from her until the family received a letter from China. Her father Canning Woo explained the whole situation to her and why her mother left the twins back in China. Throughout the story, she remembers and has flashbacks of her mother Suyuan, expressing the important history of their heritage that she doesn't understand. Now that she has the opportunity to go back and appreciate the importance of her Chinese heritage, it brings back a lot of memories of her mother and the struggles of understanding who she truly......
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