The Joy Luck Club

It was written and based on Amy Tans real life mother’s and her friends journey to America and there children’s stories. It is part of a larger novel that is a best seller called the “Joy Luck Club”, and Suyuan story of leaving China is actually written there. It is a good reference to read for everything to be out into perspective fir Suyuan and June’s…

backgrounds, and relationship status. This goes to prove that no matter the region, culture, or background, women around the world have faced similar oppression and biased views based on their gender. An example of this oppression was represented in The Joy Luck Club and The Year of the Elephant, where the main characters, Rose Hsu and Zahra, overcome the struggles of subjugation and failing marriages to ultimately find their own strength…

The passage, “A Pair of Tickets” is an excerpt from the book, The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan. Tan’s book is a narrative that derives from Tan’s life growing up as a Chinese-American. Jing-Mei “June” Woo is a thirty-six year old woman who has always considered herself to be “American” as she was born and raised in San Francisco, California. June finally travels to her motherland as a result of her recently deceased mother’s desire to reconcile with her long lost daughters. Throughout her journey…

1. Two Kinds is narrated by Jing-mei Woo. Her mother is the one who founds the Joy Luck Club in 1949 before Jing-mei is born. She immigrated to the US to find opportunity, and she believes in the “American Dream” – that “you could be anything you wanted to be in America” (132). Jing-mei and her mother are close in the beginning of the chapter. They are also excited for Jing-mei’s journey to become a prodigy 2. After she loses her mother, father, home, children, and husband in China, she feels…

In the stories, “Oedipus Rex” and “The Joy Luck Club”, the characters of the stories are placed in a society where they are guided by rules, with the people and events in these stories the characters are shaped to go against the standard and rule to shift their identity, but the characters change themselves, but the way they change can be beneficial but can also ruin everything. There are people in these large event, who we interact with and with these interaction we learn and take what we…

There are stereotypes about individuals whose primary language is not English. Many like to judge those individuals harshly and unfairly. Society has played a huge part in the lives of individuals who have ‘limited’ English. Even though, there are many that do not talk or understand English properly yet they should still be treated fairly. Amy Tan and her mother relate to this stigma. People should not judge a book by its cover because you never know if that individual with ‘limited’ English can…

to see where she had lived , I wanted to see the family members that had raised her " . Moreover, after she went to China, she discovered a sense of belonging to , which never felt in America. the author linked The reality of his life in The Joy Luck Club story . she embodied the role of the daughter jing-mei she was Chinese-America . And her mother, who immigrated to America because of the war that happened in China which made them eager to maintain of their Chinese identity . Mai's mother…

accomplish what their parents expect of them. The fact that children struggle to rise to their parent’s expectations, is a common theme in both Joy Luck Club and The Kite Runner. The children in both stories tend to misunderstand what their parents expect of them, but eventually understand them better as they become adults themselves. In the Joy Luck Club, we see that both the Woo and Hsu children strive to live up to their parents expectations. One example is when Jing-Mei (June) Woo, is…

I chose to read the novel, The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan, because I enjoy exploring and learning about different cultures and ways of life. Now that I have researched Tan, I have found that she extraordinarily uses her difficult life to create a novel that will inspire every reader to pursue difficult relationships with their families. Through her writing, Tan captures their attention with her own unique writing style to show the audience her life story. Amy Tan reflects her own troubled…

drives a mother-daughter relationship. Many mothers want what is best for their daughters, but many times it is not seen the same way through the daughter's eyes. Amy Chua’s 2010 memoir Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom and Amy Tan’s 1989 novel The Joy Luck Club recall their experiences of their own mother-daughter relationship. Amy Chua is narrating experiences she recalls having with her daughter learning to play the piano using a tone that is very tense, but she is only wanting the best for her…