Essay Sample on Waverly’s and Mrs. Jong Competitive Nature

The trip through the market symbolizes the choices a mother must make for her child to succeed.  As to create the game for her child to play and triumph through life.  Waverly’s initial sadness of the prior week is replaced in when, “The next week I bit back my tongue as we entered the store with the forbidden candies. When my mother finished her shopping, she quietly plucked a small bag of plums from the rack and put it on the counter with the rest of the items” (1). Mrs. Jong’s shopping in the open Chinese market is equivalent to a mother search for the unparalleled way of upbringing. As Waverly wishes for the candies, Mrs. Jong realizes the value of the simple and sweet American candies is one that receives immediate satisfaction.  In contrast to the salty plums with a tart exterior with an expectation of an abounding sweet interior. Waverly sees the plums with a tart exterior with a sub-par inside, While the candies represent the quick sweet conclusion of success.  As humans across Asia view fruit as a luxury, Mrs. Jong sees the plums as token of her success and ability to choose the outcome of her daughter’s future through her teachings. When Waverly bites her tongue as to extinguish her attempts for speech, fundamental right of the United States. This toxic behavior makes Waverly wish to escape to grasp of her mother. Ultimate allowing her to believe to the best option would be to sneak around the edges of her mother’s trap, nevertheless she falls into said trap. This truly proves her mother relative all knowingness of the daughter. Mrs, Jong scours the market in an objective search for her daughter way of life, Mrs, Jong decides a bittersweet life full of challenges and rewards would allow her daughter to succeed.  Mrs. Jong decision creates a pathway for Waverly to excel in the world through the pressure of her mother.  

Waverly finds the many battles of chess an effusive way to express her strength in a game, “I loved the secrets I found within the sixty-four black and white squares. I carefully drew a handmade chessboard and pinned it to the wall next to my bed, where I would stare for hours at imaginary battles. Soon I no longer lost any games or Life Savers, but I lost my adversaries” (3).  Her adversaries are challenged by her passion and wisdom. The time she spent granted her with a subjectively unchallengeable foreboding invisible strength. The homemade chessboard is a battle ground where she decides the outcome; this grants her the ability to always win. As she teaches her own mind in her own home. The 64 black and white squares are the stages of her life she has the power to decide. In those squares she found the secrets for in battle. As she plays the game she expresses her invisible strength containing her self taught battles, secrets and confidence.  Her life-savors are payment of knowledge as their sweet and fruity soft shell prove the changeable and rich knowledge they can provide. They provide the proof of her success in their relatively ostentatious manner. Waverly’s challenging nature in her fight for stature in the realm of chess is equivalent to her battle of strength against her mother in achieving success.  She takes her wealth of gifts of others and produces from it a grandeur of success. Waverly’s formulates her chess game to win as her opponents increase in caliber. Waverly succeeds without her mother pressure but with her own. Her mother had warned that the chess was too American and broken for it to be of any use. Waverly did not heed to said advice and on her own, she played. This granted her with her own autonomy as she played in the alley not just with friends but amongst elders. The knowledge gained allowed her to 

Waverly independence is washed by the Mrs. Jong unnerving fury as she advances in her own time with her own game. As Waverly leaves the game with nothing. Waverly’s perspective of the terror of is proven when in her day-terror her mother states "Strongest wind cannot be seen," she said. Her black men advanced across the plane, slowly marching to each successive level as a single unit. My white pieces screamed as they scurried and fell off the board one by one,” (6).  The strength of Mrs., Jong in her advancement across the plane is where no boundaries or rules only pure strength and force shall rule.   Waverly plays on a board an unequal contrast to Mrs. Jong plane. A board has set rule and set size in comparison to a plane that stretches forever with no guidelines. Mrs. Jong black pieces depicts her force as a malelvonant and overwhelming force.  In contrast to Waverly’s white piece full of a youthful innocence where dreams can come true with hard work and perseverance.  Mrs. Jong’s invisible strength presents to Waverly as force with no bounds. This creates a detrimental effect upon Waverly as she perseveres through the chess games, she is feels she is held back in day dreams of her mother overpowering toxic nature.  Waverly tries to present to her mother new idea for her individuality not go unnoticed, however her mother does not accept the term as in Waverly’s mind her own pieces, “screamed as they scurried and fell off the board one by one,” (6).  This emotion a toxic feeling of banishment and death.