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    The Motifs of Amy Tan in “The Joy Luck Club” Often, Tan writes about struggling mother-daughter relationships and the Chinese- American experience. In Amy Tan’s novel “The Joy Luck Club,” she cultivates her life throughout the novel by illustrating connections between the characters in the novel and her own life. Equally important, Tan is the daughter of two Chinese immigrants, this is where her inspiration for writing about these differences comes into play. Tan and her own mother had…

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    The Joy Luck Club is not only the title of an amazing novel and now a movie; it is also the name of the weekly gathering that four Chinese women have participated in for many, many years. The movie The Joy Luck Club opens after the death of Suyuan Woo, the founding member of the Joy Luck Club. Suyuan passed away without fulfilling “an important thing on her mind” (Tan, 1989 p. 38): to be reunited with her twin daughters who she had left while escaping from the war in China. The other three…

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    of ethics and obviously they have: that doesn’t mean that you can’t think of overarching ethical principles you would want people to follow in all kinds of places” (Singer 1). Mixing culture is two or more that combine into one big culture. In The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, it is about four moms and four daughters telling their story about their life in San Francisco. It is possible for two distinct cultures to find compatibility with one another because one can experience two different culture,…

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    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…

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    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…

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    In Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club and in Bissinger's “Dreaming of Heroes” they both had a similar common theme, the children felt pressured to comply to their parents wishes or dreams for them. In these two stories Jing-Mei and Mike sometimes tried and sometimes they didn’t, their parents wanted them to live a better life than they did, and sometimes they didn’t understand. In Tan’s Joy Luck Club Jing-Mei’s expectations and her mother’s were very different. In a way Jing-Mei expected things…

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    is most famous for discovering the repetitive cycle heros undergo -- referred to as the hero’s journey. The hero’s journey is separated into three overall sections, Departure, Fulfillment, and Return. Suyuan Woo, one of the main characters in the Joy Luck Club, undergoes a series of life events that Campbell has defined as the aspects of the hero’s journey. The departure stage of Suyuan’s life closely resembles Campbell’s depiction of the hero’s journey because the character undergoes a major…

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    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…

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    The Joy Luck Club (Two Kinds) Essay The Joy Luck Club centers on the theme of hope. This is articulated through interactions between mother and daughter, a mother’s hope for a better life for her daughter, and a daughter’s hopes to meet her mother’s expectations. Having dealt with hardships and struggles in the mother’s own life, she becomes so focused on giving her daughter a better life at all cost, but does not see the consequences of her actions. She is blinded 
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    Book Talk: The Joy Luck Club “Now the woman was old. And she had a daughter who grew up speaking only English and swallowing more Coca-Cola than sorrow. For a long time now the woman had wanted to give her daughter the single swan feather and tell her, ‘This feather may look worthless, but it comes from afar and carries with it all my good intentions.’ And she waited, year after year, for the day she could tell her daughter this in perfect American English” (Tan 17). A Chinese woman migrates to…

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