The Joy Luck Club Essay
Maria Leonor Martínez Rengifo
Professor Mercedes Peñalba García
The One and The Many: A Short Story Composite
5th May, 2012
THE JOY LUCK CLUB
This Short Story Composite is written by Amy Tan, an immigrant to the United States of Chinese origins, whose parents arrive in America in. In 16 short stories The Joy Luck Club is a blend of autobiography, fairy tale, religion, and history; a tale of Chinese families that immigrate to the United States leaving behind pains and sorrows, yet with a desire to make their future bright. It is actually Amy Tan’s story disclosing many Chinese customs and values.
It is a Spanish motto that the future of a child lays in his/her mother’s hands ("Diana de Molinicos, Refranes"), …show more content…
“The individual members of the family are thus related in various ways without necessarily having any single feature shared in common by all. There is a counterbalance between the urge of the stories to come together and the desire of each story to establish its own individuality” (Lundén 94-95).
elements of coherence
Storytelling
By the end of The Joy Luck Club reading, one senses a circularity that gives it closure.
“While the short story composite is characterized by an openness that the traditional novel does not possess, without a measure of coherence and a sense of closure, to state the obvious, the short story composite would not exist at all” (Lundén 52).
For the first time in the book, the last story joins the first one, where the reader was introduced to Suyuan’s missing daughters in China. In the last and sixteenth story, Jing-Mei again writes it, and actually gives continuation to the information she first gave. She travels to China and meets her half-siblings. This gives the reader the sensation that in spite of all the diverse open-ended stories throughout the book, the last story gave closure to at least important information that was given in the first story.
Progressive Development of a
Professor Mercedes Peñalba García
The One and The Many: A Short Story Composite
5th May, 2012
THE JOY LUCK CLUB
This Short Story Composite is written by Amy Tan, an immigrant to the United States of Chinese origins, whose parents arrive in America in. In 16 short stories The Joy Luck Club is a blend of autobiography, fairy tale, religion, and history; a tale of Chinese families that immigrate to the United States leaving behind pains and sorrows, yet with a desire to make their future bright. It is actually Amy Tan’s story disclosing many Chinese customs and values.
It is a Spanish motto that the future of a child lays in his/her mother’s hands ("Diana de Molinicos, Refranes"), …show more content…
“The individual members of the family are thus related in various ways without necessarily having any single feature shared in common by all. There is a counterbalance between the urge of the stories to come together and the desire of each story to establish its own individuality” (Lundén 94-95).
elements of coherence
Storytelling
By the end of The Joy Luck Club reading, one senses a circularity that gives it closure.
“While the short story composite is characterized by an openness that the traditional novel does not possess, without a measure of coherence and a sense of closure, to state the obvious, the short story composite would not exist at all” (Lundén 52).
For the first time in the book, the last story joins the first one, where the reader was introduced to Suyuan’s missing daughters in China. In the last and sixteenth story, Jing-Mei again writes it, and actually gives continuation to the information she first gave. She travels to China and meets her half-siblings. This gives the reader the sensation that in spite of all the diverse open-ended stories throughout the book, the last story gave closure to at least important information that was given in the first story.
Progressive Development of a