While looking through the selections of books that I had for 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 finally starting the book, it turned out that my assumptions were correct since once I read the first page, it felt so hard to put the book down. I was so eager to learn more about each of the
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You must stand tall and listen to your mother standing next to you. That is the only way to grow strong and straight. But if you bend to listen to other people, you will grow crooked and weak. You will fall to the ground with the first strong wind. And then you will be like a weed, growing wild in any direction, running along the ground until someone pulls you out and throws you away” (Tan 191). This is the most meaningful and important line because it gives an overview of one of the main morals of the novel, which is that mothers know best. This line is meaningful both to my personal life and to the novel itself. In my family, each mother passes down her wisdom to her daughter, that daughter passes the wisdom on to her daughter, and this goes on for generations. My mother always turned to my grandmother for wisdom and support, and as I have been beginning to grow up, I have been turning to my mother for the same things. In the novel, almost every daughter’s story starts off as them thinking that they can handle certain situations on their own, and that their mothers are just being ridiculous whenever they try to incorporate Chinese culture into their lives. However, further into the book, every one of those daughters end up in either a broken or damaged relationship and eventually turn to their mothers asking for assistance. The entire novel builds up the message of how mothers always know what is right, and ends with sisters coming together, all with pieces of their mother to complete them. The most beautiful line in the book is a quote from one of the mothers, Lindo, which states “I had on a beautiful red dress, but what I saw was even more valuable. I was strong. I was pure. I had genuine thoughts inside that no one could see, that no one could ever take away from me. I was like the wind” (Tan 58). This is the most beautiful quote because it adequately shows Lindo’s moment of
You must stand tall and listen to your mother standing next to you. That is the only way to grow strong and straight. But if you bend to listen to other people, you will grow crooked and weak. You will fall to the ground with the first strong wind. And then you will be like a weed, growing wild in any direction, running along the ground until someone pulls you out and throws you away” (Tan 191). This is the most meaningful and important line because it gives an overview of one of the main morals of the novel, which is that mothers know best. This line is meaningful both to my personal life and to the novel itself. In my family, each mother passes down her wisdom to her daughter, that daughter passes the wisdom on to her daughter, and this goes on for generations. My mother always turned to my grandmother for wisdom and support, and as I have been beginning to grow up, I have been turning to my mother for the same things. In the novel, almost every daughter’s story starts off as them thinking that they can handle certain situations on their own, and that their mothers are just being ridiculous whenever they try to incorporate Chinese culture into their lives. However, further into the book, every one of those daughters end up in either a broken or damaged relationship and eventually turn to their mothers asking for assistance. The entire novel builds up the message of how mothers always know what is right, and ends with sisters coming together, all with pieces of their mother to complete them. The most beautiful line in the book is a quote from one of the mothers, Lindo, which states “I had on a beautiful red dress, but what I saw was even more valuable. I was strong. I was pure. I had genuine thoughts inside that no one could see, that no one could ever take away from me. I was like the wind” (Tan 58). This is the most beautiful quote because it adequately shows Lindo’s moment of