Amy Lee

A. Why did Jing-Mei’s mother form the Joy Luck Club in Kweilin? Her mother formed the club to give herself and her friends a break from the horror of the war that was going on in China. What kind of information did Jing-Mei learn from her mother’s story about leaving Kweilin? Jing-Mei learned that her mother carried a wheelbarrow of items that included her twin daughters, food, and fancy clothes. When she left Kweilin all that she had left was three of her fancy dresses. Why was Jing-Mei given…

In The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong has ambivalent sentiments about being a Chinese female. In the Chinese culture daughters are treated as a liability and that made her wish she was a boy when she was younger. The way her parents and other Chinese people speak about girls is one of the reasons that she seems to at sometimes resent the Chinese culture. However, she really seems to identify with the figure of the women warrior. As a kid she was told the story of Fa Mulan and to wants to be like her…

‘Perfectly Contented’ was longer, but faster. And after I played them both a few times, I realized they were two halves of the same song” (Tan 144). In this quoted text, this analogy provides an important insight of the personalities of the daughters in Amy Tan’s novel The Joy Luck Club. Jing-mei realizes that the songs “Pleading Child” and “Perfectly Contented” are halves of the same song, which symbolizes Jing-mei herself. Jing-mei has two moods that influence her actions; although she is…

The short stories Desiree’s baby by Kate Chopin, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Kurt Vonnegut, Two Kinds by Amy Tan and Eveline by James Joyce all share a similar concept of an unfortunate and serious tone. This is shown in the text through the theme of family conflict caused by greed and pressure. The short stories are connected through a similar unfortunate and serious tone and theme of greed causing conflict in the family. In Desiree’s Baby by Kate Chopin, Armand chooses to protect…

Your culture can dictate what you value because of your surroundings. Your surroundings determine what you do, how you act, and how you think. Your surroundings make a huge impact on your life. Such as in Billy and Mike’s situation, where they want to play football because in their culture football is what boys their age do. Billy and Mike had a choice to play football rather than Jing Mei Woo and Waverly Jong. Jing Mei Woo never had that choice. Jing Mei Woo’s mother forced her to become a…

The lyrics of the Beatles’ ‘’Long and Winding Road’’ is the perfect metaphor for the chapter that ends the Joy Luck Club. This can be seen on two levels. The Joy Luck Club book begins with Suyuan Woo and, in a way, it ends with Suyuan Woo albeit in the person of the daughter Jing-Mei. The road followed by the members of the Joy Luck Club has taken them from China to America and now in the person of Jing-Mei the road has led them back again. On another level, the ‘’Long and Winding Road’’…

and which ones to produce always brought out the worst in everyone.” (page 139) “There was a rule that you never pushed for your own piece, ever” (page 139) or you would get in trouble and frowned upon. Tina Fey mentions working with her best friend Amy Poehler and was less alone at work now. (page 144) She also mentions “Publicity and press junkets are just part of the job.” (page 147) Tina Fey describes being at a famous photo shoot “introducing you to the stylist and shown rack and racks…

In the book, The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, a Chinese-American writer, there are various themes of significance. Such themes include Chinese vs. American traditions, Mother-daughter relationships, bad childhoods, bad marriages, child marriages, hope and women's rights. I am aware that each of these themes has their own importance, however, I believe that the theme of child marriage is most important. I intend to use the Ted-Ed talk of A warrior’s cry against child marriage by Memory Banda and Why…

In the novel “The Joy Luck Club” by Amy Tan, Tan depicts several different conflicts between four different Chinese mothers and their daughters. Each mother and daughter pair has their own separate stories and through these conflicts in each story, there are different life lessons that can be learned from. The first lesson comes from the mother An-mei Hsu, and her daughter Rose Hsu Jordan which teaches one to become confident and strong. The second lesson is from Jing-Mei Woo, also known as June…

Have you ever thought how about much work it takes to overcome obstacles throughout your life? In "Mother Tongue" Amy Tan knew how hard her mother tried to defend herself from other people, but in instances people said they did not understand what Amy's mother was saying. "And I had plenty of empirical evidence to support me: the fact that people in department stores, at banks, and at restaurants did not take her seriously, did not give her good service, pretended not to understand her, or even…