The Joy Luck Club

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 towards women and young girls. The significance of the movie is the binding of all mothers and daughters together. The movie is basically about four elderly women who each have daughters and are basically sacrificing a lot to do the best for their daughters…

2nd Quarter Project In the book, “The Joy Luck Club,” there are many conflicts that impact the story, which includes cultural collision between Chinese and Chinese-American cultures. Jing-mei’s mother, Suyuan, travailed from a path full of adversities. Suyuan represents the Chinese culture while Jing-mei represents the Chinese-American. Throughout the book, Jing-mei comes to realize how a war devastated and greatly impacted her life from a story told by Suyuan. The struggles that both Suyuan and…

The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan is a story about four Chinese mothers and their daughters who have a hard time distinguishing between their Chinese and American culture and following their family traditions. The Joy Luck Club was a group that Suyuan Woo, the mother of Jing-Mei, chose to create in order to give Chinese women who were forced into the America’s a place to come where there would be no negative thoughts or sad stories. It was all fun and laughter around the Mahjong table. When Suyuan…

Standards in Their New Lives In the novel The Joy Luck Club written by Amy Tan, four families of Chinese immigrants gather around a mahjong table. Jing-Mei Woo is to replace her mother’s seat at the table. After Jing-Mei’s mother passes away, it is her responsibility to take over the seat. Jealousy fills the group when comparing their daughter's abilities. Beauty is important to all of the daughters and their mothers. Superstition factors into their everyday lives controlling their…

In the novel, The Joy Luck Club, there are many different cultural aspects. Throughout the book, there are many obstacles the characters may face. In addition, there are also parts of the book that show higher emphasis on Chinese cultural values and perspectives. Containing sixteen stories all relating back to each other, the main plot of the novel begins when a daughter named Jing-mei sets out on a journey to find her long lost twin sisters. Jing-Mei’s older twin sisters were lost due to their…

In Amy Tan's book “The Joy Luck Club” mothers and daughters are very different but the same in many ways. All of the mothers were born in China and the daughters born in American. Lindo Jong and Waverly Jong are mother and daugher that are both Chinese and American. Lindo Jong was a strong, smart women. Her parents forced her into a horrible marriage. Lindo was treated as if she was a slave by her new mother-in-law. She had high self esteem and knew she could not be changed. After that she…

In her article "Feng Shui, astrology, and the five elements : Traditional Chinese belief in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club" Patricia L. Hamilton comments on the usage of language, Chinese culture, Chinese beliefs, and the important moments within Amy Tan's "The Joy Luck Club". The article helps connect smaller details into 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…

Within each one of the four sections of the Joy Luck Club, author Amy Tan includes a foreshadowing and symbolic prologue. The themes of these prologues are a quick introduction to the main themes of the section, and they often include “Chinese-worries” that are faced in America by the mothers and daughters. In the first section, “Feathers from a Thousand Li Away,” the main theme is the relationship between the mother and daughters of the Joy Luck Club. In the first chapter, Suyuan had to leave…

provide her with support in establishing their identity. In the stories told in The Joy Luck Club, Suyuan Woo, An-mei Hsu, Lindo Jong, and Ying-yang St. Clair, four Chinese born mothers with Chinese-American daughters, display the importance of having a strong family, particularly those growing up with entirely different cultures. These stories exemplify how a feeling of security, support, and community can lead to an individual's prosperity regardless of any barriers. Amy Tan's constant use of…

In the book, The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, a Chinese-American writer, there are various themes of significance. Such themes include Chinese vs. American traditions, Mother-daughter relationships, bad childhoods, bad marriages, child marriages, hope and women's rights. I am aware that each of these themes has their own importance, however, I believe that the theme of child marriage is most important. I intend to use the Ted-Ed talk of A warrior’s cry against child marriage by Memory Banda and Why…