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    In Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club, the author chooses to primarily focus her novel on the miscommunications between traditional Chinese mothers and their American-born daughters via the use vignettes from almost every character. Throughout the novel, Tan writes about several characters that have made a hero’s journey according to Joseph Campbell. Campbell states that a hero’s journey includes: a departure, how a hero sets off onto their journey, a fulfillment, their goal that is being accomplished,…

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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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    look worthless, but it comes from afar and carries with it all my respectable intentions” This is one of the stories that one of the daughters hears from her mother and later on in the story she finds out what is the true meaning behind it. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan is a book and a movie. This Story is about three mothers and three daughters that have their conflicts, but ultimately, they always will love each other. In this book and movie you will read and get into the memory of each and one…

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    The key conflict in The Joy Luck Club is that between mother and daughter. The mothers were all born in China so they grew up with traditional Chinese beliefs. The daughters, however, were all born in America or moved to America a young age, so their lives outside of the home were American. The source of conflicts in the book is mostly that the mothers are more traditionally Chinese and the daughters are more Americanized. The root of these problems can be traced back to the concept of happiness…

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    In the novel Joy Luck Club, the author Amy Tan tells the story of four chinese mothers and their american daughters. One of these mothers, An-mei Hsu greatly compares to a poem Mother’s Day by Daisy Zamora. This poem includes four different stanzas, which each correlate with a different part of An-mei’s character. The first and second stanzas of Zamora’s poem are about how the daughter wishes to have a mother like one of the: pretty mothers in the ads() but because she is: born of my womb() she…

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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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    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 loss…

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    In the first chapter of the Joy Luck Club, Jing-mei’s mother, has died recently. Jing-mei was asked by her father to take over her 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.…

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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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    to families, establishing strong, healthy family relationships is crucial because it is important that family members express love and other emotions to each other. However, conflicts will occur, which can prevent family bonding. The novel, “The Joy Luck Club”, written by Amy Tan, it exhibits various mother-daughter conflicts. The Woo family is an example of a mother-daughter conflict in which, Suyuan Woo, the mother, enforces her daughter, June, to become a prodigy and refuses to see her…

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