In The Joy Luck Club, Jing-mei “June” Woo, daughter of Suyuan Woo, undertakes and completes the Hero’s Journey because of her clear acceptance to the call to adventure, death and resurrection and return to the normal …show more content…
Upon reuniting with her lost sisters, Jing-mei sees the part of her which is Chinese, her family: “And now I also see what part of me is Chinese...It is my family. It is in our blood” (Tan 288). This is the elixir June has been searching for her entire life. Up until this point she never considered herself to be “Chinese” and thought she was more American than the latter all of her life. Now after finding this elixir June completes both a physical and spiritual deed: she has fulfilled her mother’s “long cherished wish” by venturing to China to meet her half-sisters and now is more mature about her own family and heritage from finishing the