The Joy Luck Club

There is this idea circulating that real ethnic media portrayals are not profitable. In Jessica Hegehorn’s article, “Asian Women in Film: No Joy, No Luck,” she describes how the film, The Joy Luck Club, based heavily on Asian culture which featured an Asian cast still managed to be extremely profitable and its significance in American culture is still prevalent today. In order for there to be a clear representation of…

roles within there society. Holden from The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger went against the normal college student stereotype of either partying all day and night, or studying nonstop for college. Jing-mei from the excerpt “Two Kinds,” from The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, went against her mother’s wishes…

who married a wrong person and who married the jaen, and who is left her twins with all her money. In this movie every girl have a different story with different people. People who is in the movie had a high self-esteem with no confidence. The “Joy Luck Club” contains sixteen interwoven stories about conflicts between Chinese immigrant mothers and their American-raised daughters. The people that in the movie have high self-esteem they care around what others say around them and they don’t do…

In 1989 The Joy Luck Club, a novel composed of many short stories following Chinese immigrant families in California was published by Amy Tan. One of the final stories in the novel is titled “Two Kinds”, which follows a young girl named Jing-Mei and her mother. The two had just recently moved the San Francisco, CA in the 1950’s. Throughout the story Jing-Mei struggles with living up to her mother’s high expectations while keeping herself content as well. Mei’s mother repeatedly damages their…

Gladwell's 'Outliers', he studied people who were successful under unordianry circumstances. "If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your imagination, you can shape the world to your desires."(151) Success is more about intuition than just luck itself. Malcolm Gladwell introduces an Italian villiage in Pennsylvania named Roseto after the Italian imigrants. Gladwell refferred to this study as "The Roseto Mystery." The Rosetan people amazed doctors with their low rates of heart…

I was contemplating whether I should write to you or not. Literally I wrote to everyone I could think of before I wrote to you, because my parents informed me how it is not proper etiquette because we live in Park Ridge Estates as well. However, after I saw a book you wrote I knew you were the perfect person to write to. The title of your book is, “Now or Never: Getting Down To The Business of Saving Our American Dream”. For years I have disregarded my own American dream, covered by my own…

In The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, An-Mei tells the story of how she got a scar on her neck as a young child. An-Mei did not live with her mother. She and her younger sibling lived with her grandmother, Popo. It is revealed to the reader that her mother is a “ghost” and An-Mei has only seen her a handful of times in her life. During one of her mother’s impromptu visits, scalding soup is knocked onto An-Mei and because of the severity of the scarring, she almost dies. This scar symbolizes the…

relationship between a mother and a daughter is a very strong bond. The mother being the one to protect the daughter from any danger and to push the daughter to her potential in life. Amy Chua’s Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom and Jing-Mei Woo’s The Joy Luck Club shows the frustration and belligerent attitudes in a mother-daughter relationship. The despondent tone in both stories give a perfect representation of this sort of complicated relationship. In Amy Chua’s excerpt “The Violin” is written…

The misunderstanding and miscommunication between mother and daughter creates numerous cultural and generational differences. Both the St. Clair’s and Hsu’s are facing marriage problems, which was formed by American circumstances, which the daughters had learned (cultural difference). The Woo and Jong families are facing different issues. The marriage problems have been created by the views of the daughters. Both Rose Hsu Jordan and Lena St. Clair are facing marriage problems. These are caused…

An example, would be last Thursday, when we were supposed to write an essay about a message portrayed in both the books “Rain of Gold” and “ The Joy Luck Club” , for our final after watching a movie. And the thing is that mostly half the class didn’t bring their books to class, because they didn't know they had to, but they got really lucky that we ended up not doing the essay at all or else they would…