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Amy Tan, a Chinese-American freelance writer, is known for her novel The Joy Luck Club, which is mainly based on her and her mother’s life experiences. She was born in 1952 in Oakland, California. However, after her brother and father dead in 1966, her family moved to Switzerland to start a new life. Then she returned to America for college, and finally obtained her doctor degree in linguistics at UC Berkeley. In 1987, when her mother was diagnosed with a severe illness, they came back to China…

Every experience that a person has may change the outcome of his or her entire life, and its burden on his or her thoughts may range from inconsequential to monumental. The numerous trials that someone has gone through in order to become simply another person walking in a crowd reach deeply into the feelings of the present. Even for those people who appear to be going through their lives normally, there are memories that they feel may have been better off forgotten. Negative emotions, especially…

Lena St. Clair- The “Rice Husband” gives us an understanding of what is going on in Lena St. Clair one-sided marriage. Lena is a compliant wife who doesn’t speak up for herself. The couple goes “dutch” on everything. For instance, Lena has to pay for exterminators to get rid of the fleas since the cat belongs to her. We see how inconsiderate Harold is when he tells her “they’re your fleas”. This is bizarre since he bought the cat as a gift for her. In addition, she has to pay for her own…

Cisneros and Tan both exemplifies the lives of women with traditional gender roles. The importance of gender that was placed on Cleofilas, Lindo, and Ying-Ying caused them all to be trapped within the confines of their marriages, no matter how miserable they are because of it. Because of how hopeless they felt in their relationships, they defined their gender norms. Cleofilas was faced with…

shared by the Tones family and the Jong family in The Joy Luck Club are their education levels. In the short story: Double Face, Lindo Jong describes events that took place during her arrival in the United States. She declares that, “So my mother was right about my hardships. This job in the cookie factory was one of the worst” (261). This statement informs the reader that Lindo began working very quickly after she immigrated to the United States. Which was also the situation for one of the…

finally decide to stop playing chess. The author has described how Waverly mom (Lindo) teaches her daughter to play chess and how she gives the pressure to her daughter in the book. Amy Tan…

“‘I have a dream that one day the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood’” Martin Luther King Jr. 12.5 million African’s were captured and sent to America, only 10.7 million survived the trip. Half of those who were captured fought for their freedom and weren’t successful. At the age of eleven she was captured, sold into slavery, abused, raped and forced to grow up too fast. Through the eyes…

have a “better life” in America. In the novel, one of the major characters Lindo Jong was forced to marry someone, not for love, but for family and honor. She was supposed to serve for her new husband and his entire family. And, while “Lindo had not disrupted anything, she was punished by her mother-in-law for not bearing their family a child, even though the husband had claimed to have “planted the seed” multiple times in Lindo” (Tan, 58). The author shows how women in Chinese society are…

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, tackles many themes throughout the book. These themes seem to be illustrated through the conflicts between the main characters specifically the conflicts involving the mothers and daughters. The book also provides an insight at the role that age and culture play in regards to conflict resolution. Suyuan and Jing-mei Suyuan is the founder of the Joy Luck Club and mother of Jing-mei. Suyuan can be considered a competitor throughout the novel. Throughout her life we…

bigger ideas that could have possibly been missed. In the writing Hamilton connects the involvement with metal in Lindo's story The Red Candle with the birth of her daughter Waverly. Using a quote from the Tan's story where the watchmaker explains that Lindo will not be able to have any sons because she is weighed down by metal and is too balanced, referring to the usage of the four elements in the mentioned Chinese culture(p).…