wrote the novel‚ it has been requested that the class write a paper on the story. Whilst this writer does not agree with this novel or anything that Alice Walker thinks or feels‚ obligingly this paper is been written. The Color Purple and the Joy Luck Club had many similarities‚ the most notably the presence of weak‚ ill bred‚ and quite frankly embarrassing male characters. The most obvious example of one of these unfortunate male characters is of course Albert from the Color Purple. Throughout
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“The Joy Luck Club” was written by Amy Tan‚ an important novel that shows the love and hardship mothers from a chinese culture bring. The book had all started in 1949‚ where four chinese immigrants had recently moved to San Francisco because of a war‚ where the joy luck club had all begun. Three main points in the story would have to be how important mothers should be to families‚ that winning is not everything‚ and also that one can never judge people’s experiences in life if one did not live it
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The Joy Luck Club‚ by the Chinese-American author Amy Tan‚ deals with many different themes. However‚ the idea from this novel that piqued my interest the most was how the story dealt with the language and cultural barriers that exist between generations in families that have immigrated to the United States. The book deals with four Chinese women who moved to the United States in hopes of finding better lives for their children‚ and it deals with each of their daughters who have grown up in America
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Overview of the Movie: The Joy Luck club centers on four‚ middle-aged‚ Chinese immigrants‚ Suyuan Woo‚ An-mei Hsu‚ Lindo Jong‚ and Ying-ying St. Clair. Although the relationships that exist between each of the four women are important‚ it is the exploration into each woman’s relationship with her first generation daughter that is central to the plot line. Through this exploration‚ the generational and cultural gaps that exist between the each of the women and their daughters are exposed; allowing
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Chinese and American Cultures In the Joy Luck Club American and Chinese cultural differences are brought to perspective in Amy Tan’s novel‚ The Joy Luck Club. The book follows the lives of eight women‚ 4 American born daughters and 4 Chinese immigrant mothers as their lives intertwine with each other in America. As the daughters clash with the mothers‚ they are faced to embrace the American culture‚ to comply with their mothers and accept the mothers deep Chinese cultural heritage or
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live with an optimistic view on life. Although sexism is not a major theme of Amy Tan’s Joy Luck Club‚ it is clear that it does affect the lives of the mothers and daughters. Although sexism is not a major theme in this novel‚ it runs throughout the whole novel since the story is focused on Chinese women that grew up in China and therefore they have this tradition of sexism inside. The reader of Joy Luck Club can observe the signs of sexism in almost every story of the novel. Each mother or daughter
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Waverly and Lindo Jong In the novel The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan Waverly and Lindo Jong experience conflict because of their cultural upbringing. Lindo experienced a wealthy Chinese childhood while Waverly experienced a Chinese-Western childhood. These cultural differences causes conflict between Waverly and Lindo. Waverly finds Lindo’s Chinese ways outdated. One point of a healthy Chinese parent and child relationship includes the parent showing high levels of concern. Waverly does not like
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transition from Chinese to American culture‚ while still establishing their own identity. The Joy Luck Club describes the relationships between recently immigrated Chinese mothers and their culturally confused daughters. Because the daughters of the novel are genetically Chinese and have been raised in Chinese households‚ they struggle to fully adjust in the modern American society. Amy Tan in her novel The Joy Luck Club explores how the women of the Chinese culture deal with strict cultural pressure while
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Mother/daughter relationships are a significant aspect of the Joy Luck Club. Characteristics of each mother/daughter relationship relate to the four main themes of the novel. These being‚ parent/child conflict‚ the discovery of identity‚ the idea of balance and harmony as well as the use of symbolism. An example of one mother/daughter relationship in the Joy Luck Club‚ is that of Lindo and Waverly Jong. One of the main themes highlighted in the relationship of between Lindo and Waverly Jong‚ is
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“I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go‚ if you really want to go” (Hughes). In the texts Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck and The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan‚ the main characters both have dreams for the future. The difference is what drives each character toward the dream. We learn from these stories that dreams can both positivelypositively and negatively affect people’s lives and relationships‚ depending on the motivation to pursue them. In Of Mice
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