I watched the movie‚ Joy Luck Club‚ featuring the American and Chinese cultures. The story started with a farewell party that was held for June as she was going to China to visit her two sisters. During the party‚ her 3 aunts shared their stories. The first story was about her June’s mother and her. The second story was about Auntie Lindo and Waverly. The third story was about auntie Ying-Ying and Lena St. Clair. The third story was about auntie An-Mei and Rose Hsu. I picked out the scene 42:25
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The Joy Luck Club is a movie about the fate of four Chinese immigrant mothers; Suyuan‚ An-mei‚ Lindo ‚ and Ying-ying ‚ and their four Americanized daughters; June‚ Rose‚ Waverly‚ and Lena. In The Joy Luck Club the daughters are too young and naive to understand their mothers and the hardship they faced. The mothers want their daughters to break the American habit of only looking at people’s outward appearances. The mothers’ want their daughters to realize that they have a better life in America than
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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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Overview of the Movie: The Joy Luck club centers on four‚ middle-aged‚ Chinese immigrants‚ Suyuan Woo‚ An-mei Hsu‚ Lindo Jong‚ and Ying-ying St. Clair. Although the relationships that exist between each of the four women are important‚ it is the exploration into each woman’s relationship with her first generation daughter that is central to the plot line. Through this exploration‚ the generational and cultural gaps that exist between the each of the women and their daughters are exposed; allowing
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The Joy Luck Club – A Pair of Tickets – Analysis Use of Language – Metaphor Theme – Identity This story explores the insights of Jing-Mei’s literal and figurative journey back to her cultural origin‚ China. In the text‚ Jing-mei had initially ’vigorously denied that [she] had any Chinese whatsoever below [her] skin.’ and through this she has shown her inability to understand her true identity. Use of Language – Metaphor Theme – Identity [cont.] When she had finally comprehended
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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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Intercultural Communication of Joy Luck Club Review Kimberly Gutierrez Cerritos College Abstract The movie‚ The Joy Luck Club introduces the intercultural communication and culture defined‚ that defines four woman and their daughters‚ individuals from their different Chinese cultures. The study of intercultural learning that reflects the relationships of four mother and daughter pairs‚ upon their multiculturalism has contributed to their strains of their relationships of different beliefs
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In the story Two Kinds‚ from the Joy Luck by Amy Tan you can never find two people who are more different than Jing Mei the narrator and her mother. In the story based on the year 1960‚ the mother who comes from China‚ a place where there was nothing but war‚ and all her family has died‚ except for one of her daughters‚ Jing Mei. In America her mother still believes that you can be anything you wanted to be‚ so‚ she wants her daughter to become prodigy. Jing Mei though‚ believes that you should
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We all want to be remembered‚ to leave some kind of legacy‚ something that we are known for. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan shows how Chinese immigrants‚ Suyuan Woo‚ An-mei Hsu‚ Lindo Jong‚ and Ying Ying St. Clair try to leave their legacy with their American assimilated daughters. Whether that be through stories about their lives in China or lessons that they learned‚ they hope they can connect with the new generation. One of the major themes embedded in this novel is that of identity. The mothers
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Culture and tradition is passed down to remember your beginnings.In the novel The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan she introduces cross cultural differences in the life of Jing mei Woo the daughter of Suyan Woo. Jing mei woo the narrator of the story who is the bridge between the relationships in the novel has a difficult time finding herself in the world because she does not understand who she is because of language barriers and cultural barrier within her life and of her mother. This leads to her regretting
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