The Joy Luck Club

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    Book Talk: The Joy Luck Club “Now the woman was old. And she had a daughter who grew up speaking only English and swallowing more Coca-Cola than sorrow. For a long time now the woman had wanted to give her daughter the single swan feather and tell her, ‘This feather may look worthless, but it comes from afar and carries with it all my good intentions.’ And she waited, year after year, for the day she could tell her daughter this in perfect American English” (Tan 17). A Chinese woman migrates to…

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    journey migrating sculpted themes in Tan’s writing. Tan’s firsthand experience in two settings allows her to fully immerse herself into both and present clear definitions between the two, exemplified in The Joy Luck Club, written to reflect her journey transitioning cultures. Amy Tan’s Joy Luck Club incorporates symbolism, narrative structure, characterization of mother daughter relationship, and linguistic differences in order to emphasize the disparity between the Chinese mothers and American…

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    The Unexpected Hero In Amy Tan’s novel, The Joy Luck Club, four immigrant Chinese women living in San Francisco start new families and are drawn to one another from the hardships of their past and the optimism of tomorrow. They form the Joy Luck Club. Author and professor of literature Joseph Campbell defines a hero as one “who [gives] his or her life” to a greater cause. The hero often discovers or accomplishes “something beyond the normal range of achievement and experience” (Campbell 1).…

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    The stories in the book The Joy Luck Club, Waverly Jong nor June Woo feel happy about their lives, Waverly Jong’s mother had ruined Waverly’s happiness by showing her off to her neighborhoods. June Woo’s mom had taken away happiness from her by giving her what she think is the best but was the worst to June. Waverly was mastering and actually liked to play chess, her mother used her as a way to give herself fame and happiness. Waverly didn’t like the way her mother acts and had ruined…

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    The Joy Luck Club, the role of Asian women is to stay inferior to men. Research shows that women’s right issue was a major problem in China, as well as many different parts of the world. Amy Tan portrays this symbolic issue in the novel The Joy Luck Club. According to Greenhaven Press’s Women’s Issue in Joy Luck Club, Chinese women entering the workforce have a high unemployment rate. In addition, “In 2003, 1.1 billion workers in the…

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    Mother and daughter relationships are a prominent theme in The Joy Luck Club. The Joy Luck Club was Mahjong club, organized by a group of brave women, to escape from their struggles in a war torn Kweilin, and was continued on in America. Amy Tan utilized the experiences she had growing up in a household with a Chinese immigrant mother, to inspire the plot of the novel. In The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan analyzes the relationship between mothers and daughters in a generation gap of Chinese cultured…

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    In “The Joy Luck Club” Waverly’s story opens with her mother’s, Lindo, upbringing. It is understood that she did not have a choice when it came to marriage as she was engaged by the age of two. The hardships that Lindo had to face very early on, gives a pathway on how she nurtures Waverly. By understanding Lindo first, you can only then understand Lindo and Waverly’s story together. Reverting to Lindo’s story, it starts off as her mother figuratively hands her over to Mrs. Huang as she does not…

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    The Joy Luck Club is a novel written by Amy Tan. It was published in 1989 and was her first novel that she ever released. The novel tells the story of four immigrant women from China moving to the United States and their stories with their four American-born daughters. It is said to be partially inspired by her own relationships with her mother. This book is one of those books that seems like anyone can relate to it in some way. This book includes so many different themes and it hits them…

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    history follows and unfolds for the next generation. This then gives birth to character, the synthesis of human genetics and growth of unique personality through life experiences. Generations and character are both prominent themes in the novel, The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. The four mothers in the novel represent the older, Chinese traditional generation and their four daughters represent the new Chinese-infused American generation. Although some might argue that the daughter’s resistance to…

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    While Chinese women were stuck in their marriages, American women could choose to leave their marriages if they felt it was the best option for themselves. The character Rose Hsu is an example of this. Her husband had cheated on her, and she wanted the divorce to be over quickly because “he wanted to get married again to someone else” (Tan 217). Rose was upset, but because of America’s system, she was able to assert power over him. When he came over and expected to take their house from her she…

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