Raymond Chandler‚ a fiction writer‚ once said‚ "The most durable thing in writing is style." True‚ the style is often defined as one of the most important elements in writing. In Amy Tan’s novel‚ "The Joy Luck Club"‚ the style significantly contributes to the development of both the tone and the theme of the influences that a mother can have on her daughter. The author effectively portrays the somber tone and the theme by using a concise style of diction‚ images‚ details‚ language‚ sentence structure
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As a cross-boundary transfer student‚ I entered my freshman year of high school knowing very few of my classmates. In order to get to know others‚ I committed to joining some of the major clubs in the school. The first sign-up sheet on which I wrote down my name was that of the Lisgar KEY Club - a club that would impact me in many more ways than I realized. The first thing I discovered when attending my first meeting was its alignment with values. Its commitment to community service and to the support
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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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Joshua Yu Ms. Lutyens/Ms. Byrne A.P04 6 June 2013 The Joy Luck Club Critical Theory Paper Signing up for an A.P. class is definitely tough. I sailed through sophomore year with above average grades‚ not due to my interest and skills in English‚ but rather because the teacher was easy and the course was dumbed down. But when I walked in A.P. English 11‚ I felt uneasy and nervous. I knew “sailing through” was not going to work‚ and that I’d actually need to put a lot of effort in the course
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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 the novel‚ Albert is portrayed as an abusive agitator whose main concerns are money‚ sex‚ and making sure
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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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The novel The Joy Luck Club‚ by Amy Tan‚ centers on the interconnected story lines of four immigrant Chinese-American mothers and their now grown‚ adult daughters. The mothers meet every month to play Mahjong and enjoy Chinese delicacies in their social group‚ the ‘Joy Luck Club’. When Jing-Mei “June” Woo’s mother Suyan Woo dies‚ June takes her mother’s place at the meetings. At June’s first meeting‚ the older women tell her stories about the past in China and lament the barriers between The
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chapters in The Joy Luck Club. It is the most predominant theme in the book. Some mother-daughter relationships‚ like the one found in the article by Psychology Today‚ represent how Rose Hsu Jordan was feeling when she married Ted despite her mother’s objections. Rose then needed her mother to help her to realize that because she chose not to make her own decisions‚ Rose would end up ruining the rest of her life. This situation is like the situation Holly Williamson was in when she fled from her home at
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The Joy Luck Club The Key to understanding Lindo Jong is that she is a very strong and imaginative woman. She thought up a lie to get her out of her arranged marriage as a child‚ while still honouring her mother and father’s intentions for her. However‚ aside from Lindo’s creative and fun personality‚ she is also very proud and narrow minded. Lindo Jong was brought up as a Mandarin Chinese woman. As being so‚ she followed her parent’s plans and tried to be more and more like her mother. Lindo was
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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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