The Joy Luck Club, By Amy Tan
A Fine Line between all Hopes and Joy; a review of ethnic and cultural differences of “The Joy Luck Club”, by Amy Tan
This must be one of the most deep and heart-warming tale about four Chinese women and their daughters. Four generations of stories from eight different perspectives, experiencing ethnic and racial differences, in pre revolutionary China and decades later, in America, where their daughters are all grown up.
Abandoned, repressed and separated from their loved ones, and unable to forget about their past, Suyan, Lindo An-Mei and Ying Ying, were brought together at a church in San Francisco, eventually creating The Joy Luck Club.
The four of them gathered together each week, and played board hoping they’d be lucky. That kind …show more content…
Suyan had always hoped that her wish would be fulfilled someday; she had not given up, nor would she ever. Not even death would prevent her from finding her twin-daughters; she always kept trying to find them. Suyan shared her stories about her life in China, with her friends, but before she left this world, she wanted to make sure that her daughter, Jing – Mei knew the truth as well. An- Mei, Ying-Ying and Lindo, knew what this meant and decided to take this matter into their own hands and also help Jing-Mei, to find her sisters.
I believe that the swan feather, Suyan brought with her from China, would be the symbol of this club. Unlike any other token, this one was significant to her, a remembrance of a promise she made to herself, a feather that comes from a far off place and carried all her good …show more content…
After that a series of events from the past and the future are told, one from a mothers view and the other from the daughters. Amy Tan, author of the book, begins to tell the story firstly from a past view of a mother’s experience, before writing from a daughter’s view of her present life, in San Francisco. One has to know of the past to understand the present.
All of the mothers where immigrants, all left a part of them in China, a apart of their spirit, their innocence, joy, and hope when they left, all heartbroken inside. Well settled in San Francisco, they try to teach their daughters the values of Chinese culture and tradition. Hoping that they shall live better lives than they did in China. Hoping the best for their beloved daughters. From the daughters point of view, they see that hope as expectations, a goal their mothers set up for them to reach.
Like Lindo, who was the proudest and most competitive of the four elderly friends, was walking around Chinatown and dragging her daughter with her. She kept telling everyone about her genius daughter Waverly, bumping into one person to the other, that she was the best and the youngest female chess-player, who also featured in Time
This must be one of the most deep and heart-warming tale about four Chinese women and their daughters. Four generations of stories from eight different perspectives, experiencing ethnic and racial differences, in pre revolutionary China and decades later, in America, where their daughters are all grown up.
Abandoned, repressed and separated from their loved ones, and unable to forget about their past, Suyan, Lindo An-Mei and Ying Ying, were brought together at a church in San Francisco, eventually creating The Joy Luck Club.
The four of them gathered together each week, and played board hoping they’d be lucky. That kind …show more content…
Suyan had always hoped that her wish would be fulfilled someday; she had not given up, nor would she ever. Not even death would prevent her from finding her twin-daughters; she always kept trying to find them. Suyan shared her stories about her life in China, with her friends, but before she left this world, she wanted to make sure that her daughter, Jing – Mei knew the truth as well. An- Mei, Ying-Ying and Lindo, knew what this meant and decided to take this matter into their own hands and also help Jing-Mei, to find her sisters.
I believe that the swan feather, Suyan brought with her from China, would be the symbol of this club. Unlike any other token, this one was significant to her, a remembrance of a promise she made to herself, a feather that comes from a far off place and carried all her good …show more content…
After that a series of events from the past and the future are told, one from a mothers view and the other from the daughters. Amy Tan, author of the book, begins to tell the story firstly from a past view of a mother’s experience, before writing from a daughter’s view of her present life, in San Francisco. One has to know of the past to understand the present.
All of the mothers where immigrants, all left a part of them in China, a apart of their spirit, their innocence, joy, and hope when they left, all heartbroken inside. Well settled in San Francisco, they try to teach their daughters the values of Chinese culture and tradition. Hoping that they shall live better lives than they did in China. Hoping the best for their beloved daughters. From the daughters point of view, they see that hope as expectations, a goal their mothers set up for them to reach.
Like Lindo, who was the proudest and most competitive of the four elderly friends, was walking around Chinatown and dragging her daughter with her. She kept telling everyone about her genius daughter Waverly, bumping into one person to the other, that she was the best and the youngest female chess-player, who also featured in Time