In class, we’ve discussed several themes from The Bonesetter’s Daughter, themes that illuminate ongoing issues in the world today. For your third essay, you have two choices. A.) You may write a literary analysis focusing on deconstructing the novel and arguing for your interpretation of it. Or B.) You may pick and analyze a theme/issue from the novel that highlights a particular problem, situation or idea, and then argue for your own position on the issue and for its significance and importance in our world today. For choice B, you will be writing a text-based argument that focuses on the issue but uses the novel as springboard and evidentiary source. Your primary objective for this paper will be to make a well-informed, carefully considered contribution to an ongoing conversation or debate about an important topic. Your audience for this essay is comprised of scholars who are interested in your topic and who may be aware of the important texts, thinkers and arguments frequently cited within your chosen conversation. However, while your readers may be familiar with some of the more influential voices that you will cite, they will expect you to remind them of key words or statements. These academic readers like texts, and they respect well-read participants of the conversation, so you should use textual support as a way of establishing your own credibility. Manuscript Notes: Your essay should be thesis-driven and be supported by logical and well-developed reasons, evidence and explanations. Your evidence should derive from texts read in this class and from outside research, supporting not only your claims but also referencing possible counterarguments and opposing views. Your essay should include at least 2 outside researched sources. This essay should be at least 1250 words in length (4-5 full pages) and be formatted according to MLA guidelines using Times New Roman 12 pt. font and 1” margins. You must include a Works Cited page at the end of your essay (this page is not part of the 1250-word length requirement). When you quote key phrases or clauses, you must provide proper MLA parenthetical documentation. Also, your essay must have a relevant title that hints at the topic you are writing about and your thesis. The title will be part of your grade. Remember that your polished draft MUST be submitted as a MS Word file to turnitin.com via Moodle on the day the essay is due. I will not grade essays that have not been submitted to turnitin.com. If you submit your essay late to turnitin.com, then it will be considered as a late submission and will suffer the necessary grade deduction outlined in the course syllabus. Mother And Daughter Relationship effect on the child Amy Tan wrote the autobiographical version in The Bonesetter’s Daughter of the gaps amid three generations of women and how a mother and daughter can resolve their differences and link over discovering truth. Domestic research for this work is added and pondered in mothe.

1. In class, we’ve discussed several themes from The Bonesetter’s
Daughter, themes that illuminate ongoing issues in the world
today. For your third essay, you have two choices. A.) You may
write a literary analysis
focusing on deconstructing the novel and arguing for your
interpretation of it. Or B.) You may pick and analyze a
theme/issue from the novel that highlights a particular problem,
situation or idea, and then argue for your own position on the
issue and for its significance and importance in our world today.
For choice B, you will be writing a text-based argument that
focuses on the issue but uses the novel as springboard and
evidentiary source.
Your primary objective for this paper will be to make a well-
informed, carefully considered contribution to an ongoing
conversation or debate about an important topic. Your audience
for this essay is comprised of scholars who are interested in
your topic and who may be aware of the important texts,
thinkers and arguments frequently cited within your chosen
conversation. However, while your readers may be familiar with
some of the more influential voices that you will cite, they will
expect you to remind them of key words or statements. These
academic readers like texts, and they respect well-read
participants of the conversation, so you should use textual
support as a way of establishing your own credibility.
Manuscript Notes: Your essay should be thesis-driven and be
supported by logical and well-developed reasons, evidence and
explanations. Your evidence should derive from texts read in
this class and from outside research, supporting not only your
claims but also referencing possible counterarguments and
opposing views. Your essay should include at least 2 outside
researched sources. This essay should be at least 1250 words in
length (4-5 full pages) and be formatted according to MLA
guidelines using Times New Roman 12 pt. font and 1” margins.

2. You must include a Works Cited page at the end of your essay
(this page is not part of the 1250-word length requirement).
When you quote key phrases or clauses, you must provide
proper MLA parenthetical documentation. Also, your essay
must have a relevant title that hints at the topic you are writing
about and your thesis. The title will be part of your grade.
Remember that your polished draft MUST be submitted as a MS
Word file to turnitin.com via Moodle on the day the essay is
due. I will not grade essays that have not been submitted to
turnitin.com. If you submit your essay late to turnitin.com, then
it will be considered as a late submission and will suffer the
necessary grade deduction outlined in the course syllabus.
Mother And Daughter Relationship effect on the child
Amy Tan wrote the autobiographical version in The
Bonesetter’s Daughter of the gaps amid three generations of
women and how a mother and daughter can resolve their
differences and link over discovering truth. Domestic research
for this work is added and pondered in mother-daughter
relationships, cultural clash, individuality construction and
description techniques.
Ruth Young is a first-generation Chinese American. She exists
in a frenzied life in 21st century San Francisco. Ruth is the
editor of self-help books – books which Ruth be supposed to in
all probability pick up and interpret for herself. On top of
juggling a career and sprained affiliations with a long-term
boyfriend and his two uncaring daughters, Ruth has to take care
and soothe her demanding mother.
For every part of her life, Ruth has always been concerned with
her mother as an essential part of her life; if ever Ruth pauses in

3. her responsibilities or speaks out of line to her mother. LuLing
constructs threats that haul Ruth back to deference: “She had on
one occasion run off in the center of an argument, declare she
was going to go under herself in the ocean. (Tan, A. (2001).
Ruth had waded in to her thighs prior to her daughter’s shrieks
and pleas had brought her back. And now Ruth doubted: If she
had not pleaded her mother to come back, would LuLing have
allowed the ocean makes a decision of her fate?” (Tan, A.
(2001).
As Ruth great efforts to make logic of the relationship she
and her mother have, LuLing commences to undergo symptoms
of Alzheimer’s; on the other hand, her bouts of insanity divulge
clues to the precedent that Ruth tries to decipher. Ruth chooses
to have her mother’s inscription diary, which is printed in
Chinese characters, translated. At this point in the novel,
commences depicting the stories of LuLing, and her nurse
Precious Auntie, from LuLing’s viewpoint.
The account is filled of mystery and conspiracy, and
subsequent to finding out the truth in relation to her family,
Ruth is in conclusion capable to come up to terms with her
mother’s bizarre ways and false notions. Ruth has an own
transformation after she discovers out the uniqueness of her
grandmother individuality that the reader find outs by the fifth
page: “Precious Auntie, what is our name? I am LuLing, your
daughter.” It is eccentric that Tan gives away the peak of the
story at the beginning of the auto-biography for example where
LuLing says that, "Almost all that mattered in my life has
disappeared, and the worst is losing precious Auntie's name,"
(Tan 6) at the commencement of the novel; even though the
reader can comprehend the enthusiasm the characters experience
in the lead finding out this information, the book departs no
thrills or plot coils for the reader himself. The readers have got
to live vicariously in the course of the characters of the book.
The reader should put him self of all the characters shoes to
manage to understand the whole picture.
However, what makes the story interesting is the budging point

4. of view from which The Bonesetter’s Daughter is written. Over
partly of the novel is told from LuLing’s standpoint. Tan may
have done this for the reason that, knowing her audience would
be principally American, she desired the novel to be focused
additional on the life of a woman who had lived in China and
was still devoured by that country’s culture, to a certain extent
than be centered on the life of the woman’s daughter, who had
productively incorporated into American culture. Tan desired to
bring to light a diverse kind of character in her novel. The
writer even embraces Chinese vocabulary that assists to piece
together the ambiguity of the women’s family name. Amy Tan
try to add her mark all over the novel by embraces same
Chinese vocabulary and it does add same mystery to the novel
by writing what most of her reader will not understand cause
they are American.
In this book all the characters are constantly looking forward to
where they want to go and the accomplishment they heed to
make in life. Precious Auntie and LuLing are superstitions and
curses believers. They believe in fate too. LuLing says, “Before
I fell asleep, I decided this was fate. Now whatever happened,
that was my New Destiny” (Tan 320). This shows that she
believes in fate. However though it is evident that her believe in
fate has been a driving factor towards here achieving her
dreams.
It appears that Tan predestined for this novel to be
interpret by women, for any woman can recount to one of the
three women presented in the book. A man analysis the novel
may discover it hard to recognize with the themes of mother-
daughter relationships and female family history. [Day &
Fisher, 2010] In addition, the just prominent male personality in
the novel, Ruth’s boyfriend Art, is appealing insignificant.
However insignificant though it appears that he never loved
Ruth for real because after Ruth realizes that she was pregnant
she does not tell him because she fears that he will hate her
more. That show us that Ruth is not sure if Art really loves her
or not. For example, if I found the right girl for me I will be

5. extremely happy if I know that she is pregnant.
Each page reveals secrets of a bigger mystery. The setting is so
unique that unless the reader uses critical thinking he/she will
fail to understand it. When LuLing is young she is placed in the
hands of princess Auntie for care. Princess Auntie is not in
peace that LuLing is to be married in the Changs family by Fu
Nan because the family knew that Princess Untie had the
knowledge of where the dragon bones can be found. Later after
the death of Princess Auntie is when the reader can discover the
connection between the two and why Princess Auntie loved
LuLing. She was LuLing’s true mother!
The daughters in The Bonesetter’s Daughter are given the
chance to reveal an additional side of themselves with the aid of
their mothers. This disclosure gives them a lease of life and
instills them with the valor needed to countenance challenges.
However Ruth does not feel so much happy because of the life
she was forced to live when she was young. This is all because
her mother criticized her harshly and forced her to obey strict
rules. Ruth’s mother felt that Ruth had the ability to
communicate with the spirit world and so she expected Ruth to
be telling her some messages from the ghosts. Ruth and her
mother could never talk about their problems. They have not
been able to work through them and move on because Ruth
refuses to go and get guidance from her mother.
LuLing’s autobiography makes us understand how her past life
has been. She lived in a small village in china called Immortal
Heart where she is raised by a nursemaid Precious Auntie.
Although LuLing’s mother hated her and instead favored here
elder sister, precious Auntie is far much devoted to taking care
of LuLing. It is rather interesting that we come to realize later
that precious Auntie is LuLing’s real mother and the person that
LuLing mistook to be her mother was only her father’s sister. I
recite her words her “Your mother, your mother, your mother, I
am your mother," (Tan 243). This explains more the dominant
theme in the book, the mother daughter relationship.
Death has been mentioned severally in the book. To be precise

6. both Ruth and LuLing have thought about omitting suicide.
Since being a child Ruth always thought about death every day.
She could even think about it many times a day (Tan 121).
Through this we learn how Ruth had been since being her child
and how it affected her. Kids of her age do not normally think
about death and so it must have been affecting her more that she
realized that it was. When she discovers she is pregnant she
says, "I want to die, she moaned to herself. Die, die, die," (Tan
135). This is after she has tried to commit suicide. While
LuLing was young there was a cliff behind their house that kept
on creeping closer. When referring to it they said, “for what lay
beyond and below was too unlucky to say out loud: unwanted
babies, suicide maidens, and beggar ghosts,” (Tan 180). This
clearly shows that the cliff was a symbol of death.
Work sited
Tan, A. (2001). The bonesetter’s daughter. New York, NY: The
Random House Publishing Group.
Day, M. M., & Fisher, C. (2010). Communication over the life
span: The mother-adult
daughter relationship.