Lindo Jong is a member of the Joy Luck Club along with Suyuan Woo‚ An-mei Hsu‚ and Ying-ying St. Clair. Lindo Jong is a mother to three children‚ a divorcee‚ and a wife to a second husband. She grew up in China‚ and even though her children are American‚ she wants them to have some Chinese character also. Lindo’s character encompasses three major traits including cleverness‚ being controlling‚ and loving. When Lindo turned the age of two‚ she was engaged to marry Tyan-yu who was one year old at
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Ying-ying and Lena’s Dark Side Amy Tan is a Chinese-American and she is the author of the novel The Joy Luck Club. Suyuan Woo‚ An-Mei Hsu‚ Lindo Jong and Ying-ying St. Clair are in The Joy Luck Club. The novel is about these four different characters and their relationships with their daughters. Lena and her mother‚ Ying-ying‚ are similar in many ways. Both can see what others can’t. Lena explains‚ “Because even as a young child‚ I could sense the unspoken terrors that surrounded our house‚ the
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The Hero’s Journey in The Joy Luck Club In Amy Tan’s novel The Joy Luck Club‚ Tan explores the difficulty of immigration and adjustment to a different culture by following the women of four families. Throughout the novel‚ Tan slowly reveals the struggles of each individual woman’s life‚ both in the past and in the present. Tan’s story may not immediately translate into Joseph Campbell’s widely recognized Hero’s Journey‚ but certain characters resemble Campbell’s path of character development. Lindo
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In the New York Times Bestseller‚ The Joy Luck Club‚ Amy Tan uses symbolism and diction to portray to the audience that the main antagonistic force stems from language barriers. The novel focuses on Chinese women immigrants and their daughters. All of the mothers come to America with high expectations and aspirations for both their future daughters and themselves. The mother’s first language is Chinese but their daughters grew up speaking English this causes rifts in their relationships’ because
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Moreover‚ in America‚ in this day and age‚ in the “land of the free”‚ people enjoy exploiting their freedom to decide every aspect of their life. Being able to choose from an unlimited number of options enthrall modern day Americans. In Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club‚ Tan uses various marital relationships
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Amy Tan portrays Lindo Jong‚ mother of Waverly Jong‚ as a brave‚ intelligent woman who uses her wit in order to get out of a restrained marriage. She shows an unwavering loyalty to her family as she sacrifices her‚ “life to keep [her] parents promise‚” (42). Lindo deals with the harassment from her in-laws‚ as well as the childlike nature of her husband. She eventually receives abuse from her own daughter when she doesn’t fit the expectations of both Waverly and the society. Even through all these
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Zak Wegweiser 6/6/14 平衡木: Píng héng mù – Balancing Wood The Joy Luck Club‚ a novel by Amy Tan‚ conveys the conflicts between Chinese immigrant mothers and their American born daughters. These relationships are demonstrated through four stories about each family. Each set of stories displays disconnection between the mothers and daughters. Rose Hsu and her mother An-mei have many disparities. Their major difference is the amount of “wood” they have at different points in the story. In the novel‚
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The theme of mother-daughter relationships is found throughout most of the 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
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that may affect themselves and focus more on others and their problems. This can make the conversations between parent and child become scarce. Even without the difficulty of language in the way like with the mothers and the daughters of “The Joy Luck Club” by Amy Tan; we still have difficulty communicating with our parents. My mother and I do not speak all the time‚ yet in our tame relationship we still know of each other’s unconditional love. Even though‚ we could be called distant‚
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She uses the daughters to reflect herself throughout her own novels. Therefore‚ all the daughters are composed to show little to no interest in men belonging to Chinese descent. For instance‚ in The Joy Luck Club‚ Waverly Jong states “I wasn’t too much afraid as I was for my mother‚ as I was for Rich. I already knew what she would do‚ she would attack him‚ how she would criticize him (191).” The remaining bits and pieces that Waverly has of her culture
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