Chinese Immigrant Families In Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club
The Joy Luck Club
The Joy Luck Club is focused on four Chinese Immigrant families in San Francisco and about their sacrifices for coming into the United States. Each family tells their own story. The story of the Hsu family with An-Mei as the daughter The purpose of the Joy Luck Club is to show the reader that people to reach their dream they have to make sacrifices and that their choices can change their fate.
The language Amy Tan uses imagery to show how things affect the characters and how objects affect them as well. In the story, An-Mei’s mother marries a man named Wu-Tsing and they move into the house with him. An-Mei’s mom was the fourth wife. One day all the wives were at the house and An-Mei meet the second wife. She gave An-Mei
a pearl necklace, that her mother insisted that she didn’t take. Her mother later that showed her the necklace was fake by smashing it. An-mei’s mother knew the sec0nd wife was only giving her that necklace just to get control of her.
Amy Tan shows symbol in the book to show the sacrifices that others have to make to reach their dreams. In the book way before An-Mei was born, her mother had twins. Resulting of being driven out of her home, she had to walk miles with her babies. In order for her to survive she left them on the side of the road with all her belongings she had. An-Mei’s mother also killed herself when she was married to Wu-Tsing to ensure that An-Mei would have a good life.
Amy Tan uses the theme fate in the book. In the story, if An-Mei’s mom would’ve never shown her the necklace was fake, she could’ve been taken advantage of by the second wife. In result of her mother showing her that the necklace was fake, An-Mei also seen that the second wife was fake.
I have explained the parts in the Joy Luck Club where theme and symbol had came in place. This paper covers why the purpose of the Joy Luck Club is to show that for people to reach their dream, they have to make sacrifices and that their choices can change their fate.
The Joy Luck Club is focused on four Chinese Immigrant families in San Francisco and about their sacrifices for coming into the United States. Each family tells their own story. The story of the Hsu family with An-Mei as the daughter The purpose of the Joy Luck Club is to show the reader that people to reach their dream they have to make sacrifices and that their choices can change their fate.
The language Amy Tan uses imagery to show how things affect the characters and how objects affect them as well. In the story, An-Mei’s mother marries a man named Wu-Tsing and they move into the house with him. An-Mei’s mom was the fourth wife. One day all the wives were at the house and An-Mei meet the second wife. She gave An-Mei
a pearl necklace, that her mother insisted that she didn’t take. Her mother later that showed her the necklace was fake by smashing it. An-mei’s mother knew the sec0nd wife was only giving her that necklace just to get control of her.
Amy Tan shows symbol in the book to show the sacrifices that others have to make to reach their dreams. In the book way before An-Mei was born, her mother had twins. Resulting of being driven out of her home, she had to walk miles with her babies. In order for her to survive she left them on the side of the road with all her belongings she had. An-Mei’s mother also killed herself when she was married to Wu-Tsing to ensure that An-Mei would have a good life.
Amy Tan uses the theme fate in the book. In the story, if An-Mei’s mom would’ve never shown her the necklace was fake, she could’ve been taken advantage of by the second wife. In result of her mother showing her that the necklace was fake, An-Mei also seen that the second wife was fake.
I have explained the parts in the Joy Luck Club where theme and symbol had came in place. This paper covers why the purpose of the Joy Luck Club is to show that for people to reach their dream, they have to make sacrifices and that their choices can change their fate.