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applied this resistance towards her mother, and led to dislike her mother, and not practice on the piano. On the Jong’s side, Waverly had started playing chess after her brother Winston kept the chess set. From there, Waverly quickly improved, and Lindo noticed, so she had signed her up for chess tournaments. Waverly eventually got her picture on the front of a TIME magazine. When Waverly finally noticed that her mother was using her to show off, Waverly resisted and stopped playing chess. The…

know the mothers wanted their children become prefect. The mothers hope their kids be good person in the future. We can know it from "Of course you can be prodigy, too, my mother told me when I was nine. You can be best anything. What does Auntie Lindo know? Her…

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…

Cultural and Generational Differences in the The Joy Luck Club Culture can affect family because one may not understand the meaning of traditions within the culture, thus breaking apart the bond within the family. In the novel The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan uses Waverly Jong's character development and interaction in the novel to reveal the theme that cultural and generational differences can lead to misunderstandings. To begin with, Amy Tan uses the character Waverly Jong's character development…

Crooklyn is a film written and directed in 1994 by Spike Lee. The film is thought of as a semi-autobiographical film centered on a family in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood during the summer of 1973. The original story took place during the “golden “age of Brooklyn before things like guns, crack, and gangs took over the inner city streets. The Bedford sty residents come from all backgrounds. There is no dominant race or ethnicity. During the movie white, black, Hispanic, Puerto Rican , and…

Jing-Mei Woo’s mother, Suyuan Woo, founded the Joy Luck Club. The Joy Luck Club consists of Suyuan Woo and her friends, An-Mei Hsu, Lindo Jong, and Ying- Ying St. Clair. In the book, the narrators switch in every chapter to reveal each mother’s journey to get to America. The story begins with Jing-Mei Woo telling how her mother escaped Kweilin during War World II. Her mother had to…

mother’s corner of the MahJong table in the Joy Luck Club. The Joy Luck Club was revived by Jing-mei’s mother, Syuan, in San Francisco, two years before Jing-mei was born. Jing-mei’s mother picked three other women to join the Joy Luck Club, An-mei, Lindo, and Ying-ying. She picked these three women because they had endured horrible things in China like she had. Jing-mei’s mother organized the Joy Luck Club to lift the spirits of others and herself and wish for future luck. She had the idea to…

Music plays a big role in the life of a Mexican. They could never live a life without art. Music in Mexico allows people to talk and express how they feel about something or someone which is usually in their past. This helps people celebrate life and love. History and legends are an overcoming of cruel treatments. The history has experienced an enormous change from the sound of the drums of a Mayan or Aztec ceremony to some modern Mexican rap. Over the years the music has changed. Mexican music…

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…

Many teens in this day and age, specifically ones of Asian descent, will have their parents put unnecessary amounts of stress on them. Most Asian youth are stressed by their parents about their performance in school, where they will go for post secondary education, etc. Putting these burdens on children will result in a large psychological barrier in their minds, as well as lower self esteem (should they not meet their expectations), which makes them think things such as “I can’t do this”, or “I…