The Joy Luck Club

In today’s world, immigration is extremely important and continues to be highly controversial. Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club, is the daughter of Asian immigrants. Chinese immigrants, especially during her childhood, felt a severe sense of displacement. Her father immigrated to the United States in 1947 and her mother, in 1949. After her parents immigrated, she grew up with American and Chinese cultural influences. Tan learned that culture can be passed on and appreciated throughout…

Divorce in The Joy Luck Club Tradition, culture, family, and pride these words may have different meanings, however they are able to shape how an individual lives their lives. Throughout The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan we see what life was like for four, Chinese-American families across two generations. We are able to view how the mothers grew up in China, as well as their lives after they immigrate to the States, and how their daughters grew up in America. We also see how couples go about getting…

A. Why did Jing-Mei’s mother form the Joy Luck Club in Kweilin? Her mother formed the club to give herself and her friends a break from the horror of the war that was going on in China. What kind of information did Jing-Mei learn from her mother’s story about leaving Kweilin? Jing-Mei learned that her mother carried a wheelbarrow of items that included her twin daughters, food, and fancy clothes. When she left Kweilin all that she had left was three of her fancy dresses. Why was Jing-Mei given…

The lyrics of the Beatles’ ‘’Long and Winding Road’’ is the perfect metaphor for the chapter that ends the Joy Luck Club. This can be seen on two levels. The Joy Luck Club book begins with Suyuan Woo and, in a way, it ends with Suyuan Woo albeit in the person of the daughter Jing-Mei. The road followed by the members of the Joy Luck Club has taken them from China to America and now in the person of Jing-Mei the road has led them back again. On another level, the ‘’Long and Winding Road’’…

The Chinese zodiac signs occupy twelve animal signs, and every year relates to an animal. The signs have diverse meanings, personality traits, and fortune. Waverly Jong is a Chinese American character that made an appearance in the novel, “The Joy Luck Club”, written by Amy Tan. She knows how to disguise her strategies and thoughts. Waverly is single-handed, has “invisible strength", and sharp-witted. Though in the novel, she was born on March 17, 1951, in the year of the rabbit. Her Chinese…

On Tuesday, September 30, 2014 Amy Tan was a speaker at the third Wooster Forum. Her presentation was called, The Heart of a Writer. Amy Tan is the famous author of the popular novel, The Joy Luck Club. She has written other novels including, The Bonesetter’s Daughter and The Hundred Secret Senses. Tan draws many of her novels influences from the relationships between a mother and her daughter. In her younger years, Amy Tan, never wanted to become a writer. Good or bad fate, images, and memory…

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…

America. Alternatively, Tan’s mother speaks in fragments of English due to her being an immigrant who fled China’s Cultural Revolution (Amy, 1990). Tan realises her different “Englishes” when she was giving a public lecture about her book, The Joy Luck Club, she states how she had given this talk to “half a dozen other groups” (Amy, 1990) and that she suddenly realised one major difference in this group, a difference which put…

In the novel The Joy Luck CLub written by, Amy Tann the main focus is on a group of women and each of their daughters. The women have experienced an unimaginable past which has brought them from China all the way to San Francisco Chinatown. Throughout The Joy Luck Club, each of the women's pasts influences their present self as well as the hopes and dreams for their daughters. I believe that the character that demonstrated this the most throughout the novel was Suyuan Woo. In the result of her…

Amy Tan is a persuasive author because of her works such as, “Mother Tongue”, “A Pair of Tickets” and “The Joy Luck Club”. These works portray the mother-daughter relationship which is considered a spiritual act of connectedness. Some of her works also portray the negative side of this mother-daughter relationship. Another main thing that’s in Tan’s Stories is the “conflict faced by Chinese Americans who find themselves alienated both from their American milieu and from their Chinese parents and…