Joy Harjo

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…

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…

A day of shopping with her daughter made Brittney Johnson realize just how much her actions impact her child. from the way she talks, acts, treats others, and herself. The pair were walking through the mall when the mother watched as her daughter chatted with a man at Starbucks, told a woman in a restaurant "please," "thank you," and "I just love your hair!" The little girl happily gave a high-five to the carousel worker, and gave her extra tokens away to another girl, but the moment became…

The Joy Luck Club is split into fours. There are four sections and four chapters in each section, and each set of four represents the four seats at a mahjong table. Just like each seat belongs to each player, each chapter belongs to a specific character. In the first section of the book, June is asked by her father to be the fourth seat at her mother's friends’ mahjong table, replacing her mother who has passed away. Surrounded by these women who knew her mother so well, June is reminded of the…

1. Two Kinds is narrated by Jing-mei Woo. Her mother is the one who founds the Joy Luck Club in 1949 before Jing-mei is born. She immigrated to the US to find opportunity, and she believes in the “American Dream” – that “you could be anything you wanted to be in America” (132). Jing-mei and her mother are close in the beginning of the chapter. They are also excited for Jing-mei’s journey to become a prodigy 2. After she loses her mother, father, home, children, and husband in China, she feels…

A mother is someone a child can depend on for anything regardless of the extremity. Likewise, a daughter should be able to depend on her mother to provide her with support in establishing their identity. In the stories told in The Joy Luck Club, Suyuan Woo, An-mei Hsu, Lindo Jong, and Ying-yang St. Clair, four Chinese born mothers with Chinese-American daughters, display the importance of having a strong family, particularly those growing up with entirely different cultures. These stories…

film being viewed. Through the personal experiences of the characters in The Joy Luck Club and Anna Karenina, the audience is deeply alerted to the role of women and the issue of gender inequality that were customary for the time and place that each of these films examined. Different societies have different perceptions, just as different groups within those same societies may also have varying viewpoints. However, both The Joy Luck Club and Anna Karenina echo the underlying sentiment that women…