Amy Lee

The Joy Luck Club is a book that presents a conflict between Chinese immigrant mothers and their American-born daughters who have different language and culture. Mothers want to share their past with her daughters and daughters try to understand their mothers’ pasts with understanding the difference. I chose to write a letter because it is an appropriate text type that can express one’s opinion to give the advice of problem that daughters have and effectively convey one’s thought with the…

Amy Tan is a bestselling author born in 1952. She has written several novels focused on mother-daughter relationships. In Mother Tongue, Tan analyzes the different “Englishes” she uses in everyday life and why some are considered better than others. Tan’s mother, a Chinese immigrant, speaks in what some call a “broken” form of English (543). She claims her mother is treated unfairly because of her fractured language. Because Tan grew up speaking the English of her mother, she could understand…

Amy Tan was born in Oakland, California on February 19, 1952. In the article “Amy Tan” it reads, “Her parents chose the Chinese name En-Mai, meaning Blessing of America… [Though] the blessing seemed inadequate” (“Amy Tan”). Her father, John Tan, immigrated to the United States in 1947 and took work as an engineer and Baptist Minister. Her mother, Daisy Tan, immigrated to the United States in 1949, leaving behind three daughters from a previous marriage. Tan had an older brother named Peter, and…

establishing strong, healthy family relationships is crucial because it is important that family members express love and other emotions to each other. However, conflicts will occur, which can prevent family bonding. The novel, “The Joy Luck Club”, written by Amy Tan, it exhibits various mother-daughter conflicts. The Woo family is an example of a mother-daughter conflict in which, Suyuan Woo, the mother, enforces her daughter, June, to become a prodigy and refuses to see her capabilities, which…

In the novel, The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan, all the storytelling done makes the plot structure very unique. The novel takes place in four different time frames: the mother’s childhoods in China; the young adult years of the mothers when they immigrate to America; the childhood years of the daughters in the United States; and the young adult years of the daughters as they interact with mothers. The mother’s childhood experiences take place in China while the rest of the context takes place in…

If I were to make the Joy Luck Club into a film, I wouldn’t. There already is a film. Directed by Wayne Wang and released in 1993, the film adaptation of Amy Tan’s novel is just as powerful as the novel itself. Kieu Chinh was casted as Suyuan, Tsai Chin as Lindo, France Nuyen as Ying-Ying, Lisa Lu as An-mei, Ming-Na Wen as June, Tamlyn Tomita as Waverly, Lauren Tom as Lena, and lastly, Rosalind Chao as Rose. Each part was wonderfully played by each of the actresses. The film adaptation perfectly…

2nd Quarter Project In the book, “The Joy Luck Club,” there are many conflicts that impact the story, which includes cultural collision between Chinese and Chinese-American cultures. Jing-mei’s mother, Suyuan, travailed from a path full of adversities. Suyuan represents the Chinese culture while Jing-mei represents the Chinese-American. Throughout the book, Jing-mei comes to realize how a war devastated and greatly impacted her life from a story told by Suyuan. The struggles that both Suyuan and…

5The story “Two Kinds” is written by Amy Tan. The story is about June's mother starting test to see if her daughter is a prodigy. One day, the mom sees a young Chinese girl playing piano on the Ed Sullivan Show, and then uses that idea to have her daughter June starting playing the piano. June starts piano lessons with Chong, who her mother exchanges lessons for cleaning services. After a while, June prepares to play the piano at a recital, which her mom and her friends come to watch her.…

Within each one of the four sections of the Joy Luck Club, author Amy Tan includes a foreshadowing and symbolic prologue. The themes of these prologues are a quick introduction to the main themes of the section, and they often include “Chinese-worries” that are faced in America by the mothers and daughters. In the first section, “Feathers from a Thousand Li Away,” the main theme is the relationship between the mother and daughters of the Joy Luck Club. In the first chapter, Suyuan had to leave…

In Two Kinds by Amy Tan, Jing-mei Woo is more of an ethnic minority than portraying an American child (woman). Because of her mother’s actions, and cultural traditions from China, Jing-mei Woo, is not able to embrace the American culture. Eventually, Jing-mei compares her life in America to life in China, resulting in a rebellion. Likewise, since she was a child, Jing-mei Woo was forced to be everything she wasn’t, even when she tried to stay true to herself, the temptation of being a worthy…