In her article "Feng Shui, astrology, and the five elements : Traditional Chinese belief in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club" Patricia L. Hamilton comments on the usage of language, Chinese culture, Chinese beliefs, and the important moments within Amy Tan's "The Joy Luck Club". The article helps connect smaller details into bigger ideas that could have possibly been missed. In the writing Hamilton connects the involvement with metal in Lindo's story The Red Candle with the birth of her daughter Waverly. Using a quote from the Tan's story where the watchmaker explains that Lindo will not be able to have any sons because she is weighed down by metal and is too balanced, referring to the usage of the four elements in the mentioned Chinese culture(p).
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Hamilton uses a quote from a work by Stephen Skinner to explain what Feng shui is "the art of living in harmony with the land, and deriving the greatest benefit, peace and prosperity from being in the right place at the right time" (4). Information like this helped connect Hamilton's main idea.As she wrote "The references in The Joy Luck Club to traditional beliefs and practices such as astrology, wu-hsing, and feng shui emphasize the distance between the Chinese mothers and their American daughters," ( Hamilton). "Feng Shui, astrology, and the five elements : Traditional Chinese belief in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club,"(Hamilton) proves to be a very interesting and moderately easy to read. It gives clarity on the Chinese culture and events mentioned in Tan's book. The only setback to the article was the way that it was organized.Though ideas seemed to flow in a way it also seemed to jump around, maybe because it focused on a lot of different things connecting to Tan's book Another problem that came with the article is that it never explain exactly why experts were being quoted and how they are relevant enough to
Hamilton uses a quote from a work by Stephen Skinner to explain what Feng shui is "the art of living in harmony with the land, and deriving the greatest benefit, peace and prosperity from being in the right place at the right time" (4). Information like this helped connect Hamilton's main idea.As she wrote "The references in The Joy Luck Club to traditional beliefs and practices such as astrology, wu-hsing, and feng shui emphasize the distance between the Chinese mothers and their American daughters," ( Hamilton). "Feng Shui, astrology, and the five elements : Traditional Chinese belief in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club,"(Hamilton) proves to be a very interesting and moderately easy to read. It gives clarity on the Chinese culture and events mentioned in Tan's book. The only setback to the article was the way that it was organized.Though ideas seemed to flow in a way it also seemed to jump around, maybe because it focused on a lot of different things connecting to Tan's book Another problem that came with the article is that it never explain exactly why experts were being quoted and how they are relevant enough to