Symbolism is frequent in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club. The two symbols I chose are the jade pendant and the red candle. Each symbol has a significant meaning to the respective characters. In the “Best Quality” her now deceased mother Suyuan gives June a green pendant(life’s importance). The pendant was given to her after she and Waverly Jong got into a verbal altercation. In order‚ to fully understand why her mother decided to her the pendant you have to break down the situation. As a child‚ Waverly
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The Frederick Douglass narrative I must say‚ has begun a spark into my personal study of slavery once again. I was previously intrigued by Joy Degruy’s theory of Post Traumatic slave Syndrome‚ but this narrative in particular‚ addressed a sickness I have never learned about before. For example‚ when he went into detail about how slaves would argue about which of their masters were wealthier or had more physical stature than the other. The idea that “it was considered as being bad enough to be a slave;
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Amy Tan’s Use of Prologues to Bridge the Gap Between Chinese and American Culture Cultural divides are difficult to overcome in storytelling because understanding another culture is a not an easy task. However‚ in The Joy Luck Club‚ Amy Tan does a wonderful job of making the Chinese culture comprehensible to American readers. With a culture that is exceedingly different from the American way of life‚ Tan presents both cultures side by side in order to draw attention to their differences. One way
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Joy Kasson’s essay “Naratives of the Female Body: The Greek Slave” discusses Hiram Powers’ sculpture The Greek Slave and how much information it contains on the cultural construction of gender during this time period. Her naked body shows fine details and the beauty of the female body. Over time as our culture has developed‚ the way people view women has also developed to fit how our culture has changed. In the photo I will be discussing‚ a photo of Kim Kardashian from Playboy Magazine‚ one is able
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history and The Joy Luck Club‚ by Amy Tan‚ reflects this influence through its infusion of Taoist principals. One of the fundamental concepts within Taoism is that of Wu-hsing. Wu-hsing is a way of understanding a matter by dividing it into five and is often represented by five phases‚ elements of directions. This is an unfamiliar concept to a western perspective‚ which tends to divide things into four. Understanding this fifth additional element‚ however‚ is essential to understanding The Joy Luck Club
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would like to write several journal entries written from the point of vue of Serena Joy as my topic. I will be writing these journal entries from the point of vue of Serena Joy at different points of the story. I will also be making a connection between these journal entries and the novel itself. The main literary features that I will be addressing are Characterization‚ Imagery‚ and Theme. Justification: Serena Joy is one of the major characters in Margaret Atwood’s the handmaid’s tale. My topic
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Flannery O’Connor utilizes the characters Joy Hopewell and Manley Pointer to expose how believing in nothing makes a person isolated and spiritually empty. Joy Hopewell is a well-educated‚ thirty-two year old atheist with an artificial leg. Joy’s lack of belief causes her to lose all the human civility and decency she has. She even changes her name to Hulga. Flannery O’Connor’s use of the mythological Trickster persona to seek‚ attract‚ and repulse the protagonist Joy-Hulga leads to her spiritual enlightenment
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GIRL POWER IN JOY LUCK CLUB AND A TASTE OF HONEY Kitchen sink realism (or kitchen sink drama) is a term coined to describe a British cultural movement that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in theatre‚ art‚ novels‚ film and television plays‚ whose ’heroes ’ usually could be described as angry young men. It used a style of social realism‚ which often depicted the domestic situations of working-class Britons living in rented accommodation and spending their off-hours drinking in grimy pubs
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symbolizes strength‚ perseverance‚ and the uniting of nations‚ tracing all the way back to 776 BC. I find the Olympics by themselves very interesting‚ but when you add in the culture of a prominent country‚ I think it becomes so much more. After reading The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan‚ the Chinese culture began to intrigue me; making the two together a great research paper topic. This was not my first topic though. I was sick the day my class chose theirs‚ so I ended up with "Communism in China". Although it
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William Blake’s “Infant Joy” and “Infant Sorrow” are poems about life. They show the growth in relationship between a child and his/her parents from different perspectives. Even by the names of each poem‚ we can anticipate that they will have subject matter‚ regarding a child‚ but stark contrasts in style and structure. To begin with‚ I can say that “Infant Joy” has a very simple structure and style‚ emphasizing on the theme of happiness and freedom‚ while “Infant Sorrow” has a more complex and
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