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    Suyuan Woo is a strong-willed woman who refuses to focus on their difficulties. Instead‚ she struggles to create happiness and success in which he is deficient. It is with this mentality that is based the original Joy Luck Club waiting for the Japanese invasion of China in Kweilin. His sense of willpower can sometimes cause problems‚ such as Suyuan believes his daughter Jing-mei can be a prodigy if only Woos can locate and nurture their talents well enough

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    The Joy Luck Club The Joy Luck Club is focused on four Chinese Immigrant families in San Francisco and about their sacrifices for coming into the United States. Each family tells their own story. The story of the Hsu family with An-Mei as the daughter The purpose of the Joy Luck Club is to show the reader that people to reach their dream they have to make sacrifices and that their choices can change their fate. The language Amy Tan uses imagery to show how things affect the characters and how

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    way.” —Rose Jordan— Thus without questioning or even being asked of her‚ Rose let her voice go unheard and concentrated on keeping this “perfect man” satisfied and happy like a reversed Cinderella. By telling her mother’s story to her daughter‚ An Mei rekindles the lost strength in Rose. In short An Mei’s mother was forced to become Wu Tsing’s fourth wife in China and believes that she has no other choice because she is only worthy of a fourth wife title. The thought of her child‚ the daughter of

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    The bonds between a mother and daughter are something not easily replicated. The Joy Luck Club‚ by Amy Tan‚ follows the relationships of four women and their daughters. While they all face different situations‚ it all boils down to the importance of family support. All four of the Chinese-born mothers left China and set out for America with high hopes for themselves and their children’s’ futures.They want to give their daughters what they didn’t have growing up. “‘In America I will have a daughter

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    JanyF1 Ms. ------------------------- Junior Honors Language Arts 16 March 2012 Immigration Hardships Faced: 1950s-Present Different themes in the book Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan‚ feed into the reasons as to why many versatile readers have interests in this novel. It captures the hearts of the young and old‚ American or non-American‚ and even the immigrants who seek for someone that understands them. The novel portrays four Asian women and their adult Asian-American daughters as they struggle to find

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    Two Kinds Essay In the story of Two Kinds Jing mei the main character and her mother that left everything behind in China never had a good relationship and always got into fights and wanted her to be the next Shirley Temple or a prodigy. The Main conflict in the story is that Jing mei didn’t want to listen to her mother. Her Mother always wanted Jing mei to be the next shirley temple or a prodigy. Her mother would test her every night on magazines she got when she cleaned people’s house and apartments

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    In "Double Face" of The Joy Luck Club‚ Lindo Jong recounts her journey coming into America as she sits in Waverly’s hairstylist‚ Mr. Rory’s‚ chair‚ preparing for Waverly’s second wedding. The symbolism surrounding Waverly and her mother’s conversation through the salon mirror subtly imply an underlying theme of a lack of communication. Waverly and her mother seem to be talking in different worlds as both daughter mother struggle to understand each other’s culture. For example‚ Lindo tells Waverly

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    believed that Jing-Mei’s mother’s friends at the club referred her as a rabbit because they weren’t expecting her dying. This is related to a rabbit because you would never know when the rabbit is going to die. I also feel like that her mother died like a rabbit because when a rabbit is dying‚ they die right away like how her mother probably didn’t have time to get better. Her mother died young because she still had business to do. If she was older‚ she would have a lot of free time. Since Jing-Mei’s mother

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     Unfocused: Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club is a candid portrayal of Chinese American mother-daughter relationships. Focused: In The Joy Luck Club‚ Amy Tan skillfully illustrates how cultural‚ generational‚ and internal conflicts between Chinese American mothers and daughters all add to the difficulty and character of the immigrant experience

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    Conflict Person vs Person June vs. Suyuan Discrepancy on the continuation of the piano lessons After the fiasco of a talent show‚ “two days later”(Tan 141) Suyuan is back at it again with getting June to continue her piano lessons. But‚ June resists by saying ‘I’m not going to play anymore’(Tan 141) but Suyuan yanks her “by the arm...half pulling‚ half carrying”(Tan 141) her to the piano and the quarrel continues. June ends the argument and shatters Suyuan into pieces by saying‚ ‘I wish I were

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