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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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    Based on the Joy Luck Club‚ please write a 2-3 page report which should:   1. Address 2 ICC scenes/themes you can identify with.  Reflect on these and include examples. 2. Address the questions "Am I (or a family member) more of a June or a Waverly?”. ”How did this come about?"    1. One of the major ICC themes in the movie is the conflict between individualism and collectivism. Although not explicitly expressed‚ it has a strong impact on the whole course of the movie. The 4 immigrant Chinese

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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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