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    other their family are just people related to them or they do not even care for eachother. Some people are not lucky enough to have met their family that live their life not knowing who their family is. That is why family is so important in the Joy Luck Club they all have different types of relationships with their families. The families

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    Amy Tan’s novel‚ The Joy Luck Club. The desire to find ones true identity‚ along with the reconciliation of their Chinese culture and their American surroundings‚ is a largely significant conflict among the characters of the novel. In the discovery of ones individuality develops a plethora of conflicts involving the theme of a lack of communication and misinterpretation of one another. Although‚ as time progresses‚ the various conflicts of the characters in The Joy Luck Club that pose major threats

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    The changes between “The Joy Luck Club” by Amy Tan and the movie are very subtle but they do change the relationships between the mothers and their daughters. There are many differences between the mothers and their daughters relationships for example Ying-Ying and Lena. In the book there is a huge major difference because they did not tell the story of the moon lady. ALthough there is a difference they both have the same affect that cause An-Mei to never be satisfied with a man her daughter is with

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    George Seaver English Paper 2/20/01 "The Joy Luck Club" Mrs. Wells The "Joy Luck Club‚" by Amy Tan‚ is a collection of short stories about the relationships between Chinese born mothers and their American born daughters. The story called "Four Directions" is about a woman named Waverly Jong. The story is about Waverly trying to tell her mother that she is getting married to a American man named Richard. Waverly was a chess champion as while she was a young girl and she remembers the strategy

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    Max Dayley Mr. McHenry English 12 9/29/06 Amy Tan The Author of the book The Joy Luck Club is written by American author Amy Tan. Born in China on February 19‚ 1952 in Oakland‚ California to her parents John and Daisy. She was a part of the first generation of Asian Americans. Along with The Joy Luck Club she also wrote‚ The Kitchen God’s Wife‚ The Hundred Secret Senses‚ and The Bonesetter’s Daughter. The latest book written by Amy Tan is Saving Fish From Drowning. She also has written two children

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    Azzouz Chokhmane Chokhmane1 Professor E. Chan ESL 42 November 12th‚ 2013 Final Essay/D2 A Tough Motherly Love “The Joy Luck Club” book deals mainly with the relationship between mothers and daughters. From the point of view of the Chinese mothers‚ a mother passes on her strengths and weaknesses and most importantly‚ her Chinese heritage and values to her daughter‚ while the daughter is expected

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    Food is a very important symbol in The Joy Luck Club‚ by Amy Tan. The presence of meals cleverly show the thoughts and feelings of a character about his or her family members or familial situations. In An-mei’s story “Scar‚” the symbol of food is used to show the tension in the family‚ and the sacrifices the daughters make for their mothers. During dinner‚ An-mei’s mother appears at the door. She has been kicked out by her family after becoming a concubine for another man; this is viewed as a great

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    The Joy Luck Club contains different stories about the conflicts between Chinese immigrant mothers and their American daughters. The book opens after the death of Suyan Woo‚ the founding member of the Joy Luck Club. Suyan died before fulfilling her lifetime wish: to be reunited with her twin daughters who was lost in China. So‚ Jing-mei‚ Suyan’s daughter‚ is going to take a trip to China to see them in her mother honor. In my opinion‚ individuality‚ legacy‚ and family were preserved in the families

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    integrated into mainstream culture. However‚ especially with more recent waves of immigration‚ some pieces of their culture remain uniquely their own and sometimes cannot be directly translated into English and American culture. In The Joy Luck Club‚ the concept of “joy luck” remains untranslatable from mother to daughter‚ from Chinese culture to American. This is not because the words do not make sense in English‚ because they do‚ but simply because the daughters do not live the same lives their mothers

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    Heart: Mother-Tradition and Sacred Systems in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club "Concentrate your will. Hear not with your ears but with your mind ;not with your mind‚ but with your spirit . . . blank‚ passively responsive to externals. In such open receptivity only can Tao abide. And in that open receptivity is fasting of the heart." (Chuangtze‚ in Yutang‚ 228) "The Master said‚ ’Look at the means a man employs‚ observe the path he Joy Luck Club Is it fair to judge someone by their sex? In traditional

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