The Joy Luck Club

all culturally different. Although all the millions of people who live in the United States are all interrelated due to the fact that we all live in the same country, but we all differ in the language we speak and our culture. Text such as The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, American Born Chinese by Gene Luen Yang, “Studying Islam” by Peter Berkowitz and Michael McFaul, and “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan, explore the idea that language and culture shape and give individuals their identity. No two…

Connection: George Orwell’s 1984 is an example of political writing. The book is about the politics of a dystopia society. It covers how the government had complete control over the people. The government used the symbol of “Big Brother” to control the people. He was always watching and listening in on conversations. Connection: Religion plays a big role in literature. Authors often parallel Christ and the New and Old Testament. Incorporating biblical ideas adds another layer to the story.…

can cause someone to do things that they might not normally do, both good and bad. These effects from expectations can be compared and contrasted in A Doll House, Oliver Twist, and The Joy Luck Club. They can be seen through Nora in A Doll House, through Nancy in Oliver Twist, through Waverly in The Joy Luck Club, and can overall be compared between all three stories. First, Nora is a prime example of how expectations can shape and form the actions of people. In A Doll House, Nora has to hide…

The relationship between a mother and daughter is very complex, however a mother would never let anything get in the way between the two of them. In the Excerpts Battle Hymn of The Tiger Mom by Amy Chua and Novel The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, the mother-daughter relationships are slightly bitter. While Amy Chua uses more of a tense yet caring tone, Amy Tan has a hostile and harsh tone against her mother. Amy Chua uses a tense yet caring tone in The Violin to express how Chua and her daughter's…

An understanding of Asian culture can positively impact my 21st-century life. For example, being an African American girl in the United States of America I believe it is important to be sympathetic and understanding of other people’s culture and where they came from. Especially since this country is sometimes referred to as a melting pot I’m going to meet different people than myself every day and that includes Asian Americans. For example, I used to work at Disney’s Hollywood Studios and a lot…

Atul Bhattarai, it stated, “Immigrants of any kind often face a personal dilemma: Who are they in a new, foreign space?” I felt that this was a perfect reflection of the book, Joy Luck Club. In the book, Suyuan Woo was an immigrant that came to the United States after escaping China. She created a club called the Joy Luck Club with other immigrants to keep some of the same culture they have left behind. The whole problem with Jing-mei is that she was in conflict between her Chinese identity and…

Similar to “The White Umbrella,” “Two Kinds” also has 2 characters: June and Suyan. The story revolves around these two main characters. Without knowing anything about the “The Joy Luck Club” the background to “Two Kinds” would exist as unknown to the reader. More advanced readers can read and have an interest in “The Joy Luck Club”, but the short stories that have been pulled from the book take the place of the longer book while still allowing the reader to enjoy some of the story…

This weeks reading covered the third and fourth section of Joy Luck Club: American Translation and Queen Mother of the Western Skies. These sections contain stories from both the daughters and mothers from the Joy Luck Club, with Jing-Mei’s story continued across them both. In American Translation, the daughters of the Joy Luck Club discuss the problems they have encountered as adults- mainly marital and career troubles. In Queen Mother of the Western Skies the mothers and Jing-Mei rediscover…

The U.S. Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) refers to Asian individuals as “having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam” (as cited by Hoeffel, E. M., Rastogi, S., Kim, M. O., & Shahid, H., 2012). From 2000 to 2010 the Asian population grew 43 percent, from 10.2 million to 14.7 million, which is four…

difficult experience as a married life, traditional roles and to be obedient with others. In addition, few wealthy families were seeking to be a modern. In 1930’s most of the women were forced to get married and samething tan has portrayed in the THE Joy LUCK CLUB. “ I know the tree-trunk lady was the old village matchmaker, and the other was huang taitai, the mother of the boy I would married”(44). At young age a girl lindo was married by forced because of the traditional roles. In 1930’s the…