The Joy Luck Club

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    When young Chinese-American girl Jing-mei’s mother first arrived to the United States in Amy Tan’s novel The Joy Luck Club, she still retained some of her Chinese beliefs. Jing-mei wrote, “My mother believed you could be anything you wanted to be in America,” (Tan 18), citing her mother as one of the few who still believed in America as a land of opportunity for all…

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    The Joy Luck Club Identity

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    This issue is highly prevalent in the lives of those who are immigrants or children of immigrants. As newcomers to American society, they are placed in situations where self-identification can be an extremely complicated issue. In The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan explores the complex nature of cross-cultural identities amongst four Chinese immigrant mothers and their American-born daughters. The daughters in the novel face an especially unique struggle in trying to find their place in American…

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    The Joy Luck Club By Amy Tan: The Unforgettable Respect "This is how a daughter honors her mother. It is shou so deep it is in your bones. The pain of the flesh is nothing. The pain you must forget. Because sometimes that is the only way to remember what is in your bones. You must peel off your skin, and that of your mother, and her mother before her. Until there is nothing. No scar, no skin, no flesh." Page 48. The Joy Luck Club is a novel based on Chinese Culture and focuses…

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    I read“The Joy Luck club” is a story that focuses on Chinese Immigrant families who start a club known as The Joy Luck club. There would old Chinses games From the 18th and 19th century played such as a card game called Mahjong while feasting on a variety of traditional Chinese food like Chow Mein and Sweet and Sour pork. There would also be old stories shared from different families about their ancestors life living in the villages they came from. The whole idea of the Joy Luck club was to…

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    one another indicates the complexity and intricacy of human nature. One’s view of the world depends on one’s circumstances and experiences. One’s circumstances shape one’s identity and thus, shape one’s worldview as well. Amy Tan’s novel The Joy Luck Club tells the story of four Chinese women and their Chinese-American daughters. It explores the role of one’s circumstances in developing one’s perspective; the American-born daughters having grown up in circumstances much different than their…

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    expectations. We may feel angry, glad and melancholy. It is no doubt that the closest relationship is between family. The mother-daughter relationship is one of the examples and it is the main element of the Joy Luck Club, which is directed by Wayne Wang, based on the novel written by Amy Tan. The Joy Luck Club is a movie showing that no matter what difficulties or misunderstandings between mother and daughter, their love will eternal last forever and help them to overcome all the conflicts.…

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    attitudes, values and beliefs commonly found in a certain cultural group. It is the point of view in which individuals understand things from, affecting their decisions and ability to communicate. These insights are evident in Amy Tan’s novel ‘Joy Luck Club’ which explores the differences between Chinese and American culture, revolving around four immigrant families focussing on communication barriers and ideological clashes between the mothers and the daughters. Firstly, the mothers’…

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    she met Giles during that time, Giles suggestions Amy to write multiple stories, then that story became to the Joy luck club. Then she started writing, and now her work has been translated into 25 languages. After the Joy luck club has been publishing and get lots of good feedback Amy served as co-producer and co-screenwriter with Ron Bass for the film adaptation of The Joy Luck Club and directed by Wayne Wang. Then she got lots of speeches in the different university. She wrote the opera The…

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    believed you could be anything you wanted in America…open a restaurant… work for the government and get good retirement….buy a house with almost no money down…become rich…become instantly famous “June (The Joy Luck Club). There are some quotes from certain characters from Amy Tan’s novel The Joy Luck Club that are relatable to the intentions of the Chinese that immigrated to the U.S. during the late 19th century. June was Suyunn’s daughter in the novel, and Suyunn immigrated to the U.S. hoping…

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    summer reading, I wanted to ensure that the novel I chose was one that I could easily connect to. After learning that The Joy Luck Club was one of my grandmother’s favorite books, I immediately knew that I had to read it. Before even reading the first page of the novel, I could already tell that I would be able to pull an abundance of relations and connections from The Joy Luck Club because it is solemnly centered on Chinese-American lifestyle, which is a lifestyle that I was raised in. After…

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