The Joy Luck Club

Thematic Observation In these two poems, both of them are describing the culture of Hong Kong. In “Mother Tongue”, the writer Tegan Smyth is half-breed of Hakka Chinese and Australia. She writes about languages, culture, and humanity, etc. This poem has illustrated that language plays an absolutely necessary and important role in awaring cultural identity as expected. Lots of expressions and characteristics of the two different places were frequently used to represent the difference between…

The two main characters in the short story, "Two Kinds". Are the mother and the daughter. After facing the unimaginable in China, the mother moves to American to start over and gives birth to her daughter, the protagonist of the story. thought-out, the daughter's life, she encounters several things that she necessary didn't want to do. Learning the piano, dealing with high expectations later in life, and then realizing the gift that her mother gave her after the mother had passed away.…

In September of 2009, ABC began airing Modern Family. Still currently airing on TV, it is widely a popular hit across the nation. This well-known TV show focuses around one main family, and their significant others, ultimately airing three families. These three families structure varies drastically while their importance is constant. The main family, which would be considered your stereotypical heterosexual couple, has three children. The second family, consist of a homosexual couple with an…

When one meets her true love, the red string of fate ties the two lovers together for a lifetime. No matter where the two lovers are, the time and distance between them, their love for each other is never forgotten. “Love Must Not Be Forgotten” by author Zhang Jie, “My Heart Will Go On” written by Wilbur H. Jennings, and Kimi No Na Wa by artist Hizuki Ranko all relate to the message about remembering love and holding onto certain mementos that represent their love. Even through the hardest…

Rodin Taylor a speech pathologist is added to Ann Marie’s therapeutic team, she advises Catherine that all children have some form of communication and her objective is to change Ann Maries learned communication structure into a more conventional form. Within the first half hour session Catherine struggles yet views Bridget putting temperamental Ann Marie into a chair and repeating this action until Ann Marie looks for Catherine. Bridget then states “look at me” then observes whether Anne Marie…

“Two Kinds”, authored by Amy Tan, is an inspirational short story that revolves around the idea of becoming independent and successful. The story follows Jing-mei who is the daughter of chinese immigrant, Suyuan Woo. Woo has looked to America as a fresh start for her daughter and herself after losing such great loss back home; her first husband, parents, two daughters, and twin baby girls. Coming from a tragic past, she has hope for Mei and tries to prevent her daughter from having the miserable…

In the story, The Kite Runner & The Joy Luck Club, both main characters of the stories struggle with the same thing. Though they are both different because of culture and time periods, they both have the same theme. Children struggle to live up to their parents expectations. Theme is a literary element that doesn’t really require much. The only things it must be is universal and timeless. Theme is all about what the author is really trying to portray to the readers in an indirect way. So this…

If you are interested into books that smoothly going step by step through the plot, “The Joy Luck Club” is possibly not your favorite book style. At the beginning, Amy Tan’s writing style seems like disconnected and even a little confusion. But when keep on reading, you might realize that is one of the beautiful things about this book. It's not going to give you a single story that goes straightforward from the beginning to the end. Instead, the novel is about performing the experience of a…

Through Amy Tan’s book, The Joy Luck Club, I was made aware of the different “languages” people use with diverse groups in their lives. A person, whether they know it or not, speaks differently in different situations. While giving a speech, one may possibly use an increased vocabulary or a slower tone of voice. A person, when talking to friends may use a decreased vocabulary, quicken their pace, or abbreviate words. While we may be unaware that we constantly change the variations of our English…

Desire is an expressed wish, and sometimes these desires are easier to obtain than others. Desire is a theme that is expressed in three novels: The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, and The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. The characters in these three novels struggle with the idea to please the people in their lives, along with themselves. All of these characters are thrown into unexpected situations that they normally wouldn’t to please the people they love, but in…