The Joy Luck Club

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    In The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan are mostly about mothers and their daughters' generation gap of miscommunications and misunderstandings. Some daughters and mothers may get along, but some don’t. In The Joy Luck Club there were four Chinese mothers: Ying-ying St. Clair, Lindo Jong, An-mei Hsu, and Suyuan Woo. Also with four Chinese daughters: Rose Hsu Jordan , Jing-mei Woo, Waverly, and Lena St. Clair each all have miscommunications and misunderstandings. Throughout the novel, Lena’s mother,…

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    The Joy Luck Club By Amy

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    The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan showcases the disconnections between mother and daughters, particularly those of immigrants. In the book Mothers and Daughters: Complicated Connections Across Cultures, Alice H. Deakins, Rebecca Bryant Lockridge, and Helen M. Sterk make the argument that all women share one experience in common, being a daughter (90). While that argument is true, it is a little more complicated, each daughter goes through different experiences than others, as shown in The Joy Luck…

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    The Joy Luck Club Analysis

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    The Joy Luck Club is an interesting talk of mother daughter relationships. Four women began the club, in order to play mahjong and enjoy life. The San Franciscan club was founded by Suyuan Woo. Before the story, however, Suyuan dies of a brain aneurysm. The three other women, An-Mei, Lindo, and Ying-ying, ask Suyuan’s daughter, Jing-Mei to take her mother’s place. Jing-Mei accepts and learns more about her mother’s life in China, and the sacrifices she made to be in America. All of these mothers…

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    “The Joy Luck Club” is book based on the lives of four women, Suyuan, Lindo, Ying-Ying and An mei. These women came to America to escape the harsh feudal society of China, while America has democracy. When Suyuan dies, the few members of the club invite her daughter June who is a new generation (learning American customs) to take her place. June must choose wether or not she wants to go with her traditional culture or her American one that she has come to embrace. The book review of “The Joy…

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    Tan author of The Joy Luck Club and many other books, though born in Oakland California traces her (family line/lineage/ancestors ) back to china. Tan’s parents had hoped her to be a doctor or concert pianist but at the age of ___she published (JLC). While living in oakland her family belonged to a group started by her mother, made up of other Immigrant families similar to theirs, who bonded together sharing stories, food, and playing the stock market. Her Book the Joy luck club is an…

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    Culture is one of the key elements in Amy Tan’s the Joy Luck Club. The mothers talk about the Chinese culture and tell the lives of their daughters. The daughters were born and raised in the United States, which makes the American culture overtake their Chinese heritage. Although both the American and the Chinese cultures are presented in the Joy Luck Club, the amount of Chinese cultural elements is greater than of the American, because Tan wants her readers to gain a deep understanding of the…

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    The Joy Luck Club Essay

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    The attachment between a mother and daughter may seem to be unbreakable, however cultural and societal barriers can strain the bond and bring unwanted emotions to the forefront of the relationship. In the novel, The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, the strained relationships between mothers and daughters test the ideologies of American and Chinese cultures. Based on the perspective of four pairs of Chinese immigrant mothers and their American-born daughters, the author depicts conflicts that are caused…

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    The Joy Luck Club tells the lives of four Chinese immigrant mothers and their four American born Daughters. In the book, every four chapters are grouped into a section. Every section is headed with an opening vignette. Each vignette portrays a theme that is common throughout the four stories that follow. The third section is called American Translation and is followed by stories of the four daughters. These four stories all share the common theme that the daughters are just americanized versions…

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    Annotated Bibliography Souris, Stephen. "`Only Two Kinds Of Daughters': Inter-Monologue Dialogicity In The Joy Luck Club." Melus 19.2 (1994): 99. Academic Search Complete. Web. 19 Oct. 2015. This article argues that The Joy Club invites analysis from critical perspectives that theorize and valorize fragmented, discontinuous texts and the possibilities of connection across segments. The author was saying that in “Two Kind”, mother from china and daughter American born that was causing problem in…

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    Amy Tan’s novel, The Joy Luck Club utilizes numerous amounts of literary conventions to create an extraordinary thought provoking novel. In this passage, the daughter, Jing-mei, discovers her long lost sisters are alive and live in China. She later begins to compare herself to the older generation of the Joy Luck Club seeing the vast differences among the generations. Jing-Mei is revealed to have an internal conflict relating to her heritage. Every difference she finds between the mothers and…

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