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“The Joy Luck Club” is book based on the lives of four women, Suyuan, Lindo, Ying-Ying and An mei. These women came to America to escape the harsh feudal society of China, while America has democracy. When Suyuan dies, the few members of the club invite her daughter June who is a new generation (learning American customs) to take her place. June must choose wether or not she wants to go with her traditional culture or her American one that she has come to embrace. The book review of “The Joy…

Culture is one of the key elements in Amy Tan’s the Joy Luck Club. The mothers talk about the Chinese culture and tell the lives of their daughters. The daughters were born and raised in the United States, which makes the American culture overtake their Chinese heritage. Although both the American and the Chinese cultures are presented in the Joy Luck Club, the amount of Chinese cultural elements is greater than of the American, because Tan wants her readers to gain a deep understanding of the…

In “Two Kinds,” by Amy Tan, the relationship between a Chinese mother and her Americanized daughter, Jing-Mei, is described through the mother’s efforts to make her daughter a prodigy. At first glance, Jing-Mei’s mother appears to be controlling, uncompassionate, and disgruntle towards Jing-Mei. Although this impression is accurate at the beginning of the story, the reader begins to learn more about Jing-Mei’s mother and her past, as well as her intent with forcefully encouraging Jing-Mei…

The Joy Luck Club is a movie that was directed by Wayne Wang and the story written/based off by the book The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. This movie was created and came out on September 8, 1993. This movie is directed towards any audience that is viewing the movie and the reason for that is because the purpose of the movie that the author and writer want to show the audience is how the Chinese culture can change from one generation to another and also how strict and different the culture was…

"Two Kinds" by Amy Tan is about a relationship between a daughter and her mother. Amy Tan uses actions to explain the relationship being abusive. One of the actions to portray this relationship was that Amy Tan's mother slapped her (98). All because Amy Tan started questioning why her mother was not accepting her for who she is. Actions speak louder than words. Other actions in this story are when her mother and Old Chong decided to have her play at a talent show. "She snapped off the TV,…

The Joy Luck Club tells the lives of four Chinese immigrant mothers and their four American born Daughters. In the book, every four chapters are grouped into a section. Every section is headed with an opening vignette. Each vignette portrays a theme that is common throughout the four stories that follow. The third section is called American Translation and is followed by stories of the four daughters. These four stories all share the common theme that the daughters are just americanized versions…

The story of Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah is a story of a little girl that is isolated from her family, her whole life. From Adeline’s birth her family didn’t accept her and didn’t like her; especially Niang. Although Adeline’s biological brother and sisters were treated worse than their step-brother and sister, Adeline was treated worse. She didn’t have anyone to look out for her, besides Aunt Baba. Adeline had one person to look out for her, Aunt Baba, but she also had a pet that she…

The passage, “A Pair of Tickets” is an excerpt from the book, The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan. Tan’s book is a narrative that derives from Tan’s life growing up as a Chinese-American. Jing-Mei “June” Woo is a thirty-six year old woman who has always considered herself to be “American” as she was born and raised in San Francisco, California. June finally travels to her motherland as a result of her recently deceased mother’s desire to reconcile with her long lost daughters. Throughout her journey…

read. Amy Tan is no exception and succeeded in getting her readers to dispute over her works. For instance scholars argue over whether the narrative beginnings in The Joy Luck Club took a feminist view point or if the beginnings were there to analyze cultural identity (Romagnolo). Her works like The Bonesetter’s Daughter and The Joy Luck Club assess controversial deliberations. Tan expresses her argument through her characters based on real life situations. Amy Tan evaluates controversial…

The short story “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan tells about a young Chinese girl named Ni Kan who lives in America and learns to play the piano. I will be comparing and contrasting this story to my personal story, where as a child I moved to China and learned to play the piano. There are some similarities and some surprising differences in the stories obstacles, conflicts, and transformations. In the story "Two Kinds" Ni Kan faced many obstacles trying to learn to play the piano. Her first obstacle was…