http://www.eskimo.com/~webguy/writings/joysucks.html Woo Family Jing-mei (June) Woo Jing-mei Woo is the newest member of the Joy Luck Club‚ having taken her mother Suyuan’s place after her death. The other members of the Joy Luck Club give her money to travel to China so that she can find her mother’s long-lost twin daughters‚ Chwun Yu and Chwun Hwa‚ and tell them Suyuan’s story‚ but Jing-mei fears that she is not up to the task. In a way‚ Jing-mei Woo is the main character of The Joy Luck Club. Structurally
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are expected. For example‚ when Suyuan Woo is a refugee during the Japanese invasion‚ she decides that she will not be a passive victim and will choose her own happiness. She forms the Joy Luck Club to provide a distraction for herself and her friends. Thus‚ in a situation where there appears to be no room for disobedience‚ Suyuan creates an identity that she and her friends assume in order to survive. The continuation of the club in the United States helps Suyuan and her friends redefine themselves
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Setting: San Francisco Principal Characters: Jing-Mei “June” Woo‚ Suyuan Woo Genres: Social realism‚ Short fiction Subjects: North America or North Americans‚ United States or Americans‚ Mothers‚ Parents and children‚ 1980’s‚ California‚ West‚ U.S.‚ Asia or Asians‚ San Francisco‚ Pacific Northwest‚ Asian Americans‚ China or Chinese people‚ Chinese Americans Locales: San Francisco‚ CA A young Chinese American woman‚ Jing-Mei “June” Woo‚ recalls‚ after her mother’s death‚ her mother’s sadness at
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needs to be much more explicit and the value of a single word is less important. The communication problems that arise when one speaker is from a high-context culture and the other is from a low-context culture can be seen in the conversations of Suyuan and June‚ "My mother and I never really understood one another. We translated each other ’s meanings and I seemed to hear less than what was said‚ while my mother heard more"‚ said
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the main character Jing-Mei‚ accompanied by her elderly father Canning Woo on a train to Guangzhou in China where they will visit with some family that Canning has not seen since childhood. Throughout the train ride and even after the two arrived to Guangzhou and met the family‚ Jing-Mei possessed many stereotypical viewpoints about China and the Chinese culture. En route to Guangzhou‚ Jing-Mei reminisced about her mother‚ Suyuan who passed away three months ago‚ and how she would always remind her
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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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away. She suffered from a blood vessel that busted in her brain. This secret has been kept from her until the family received a letter from China. Her father Canning Woo explained the whole situation to her and why her mother left the twins back in China. Throughout the story‚ she remembers and has flashbacks of her mother Suyuan‚ expressing the important history of their heritage that she doesn’t understand. Now that she has the opportunity to go back and appreciate the importance of her Chinese
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Directions: Each section of The Joy Luck Club begins with an anecdote that symbolizes the main ideas that are to follow in the women’s stories. For each section‚ you will analyze the anecdotes by answering the questions below. You can refer to each section’s lessons/experiences to provide details that support your analysis. Part I: Feathers from a Thousand Li Away: a. In the space below‚ bullet point words/images/lines from the anecdote that stand out to you (it’s okay if you don’t know the
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The Joy Luck Club is in four sections. Each of the four section tells a short parable that introduces the major themes of that section. Pages 1-32 Suyuan Woo The novel opens after the death of Suyuan Woo‚ an elderly Chinese woman and the founding member of the Joy Luck Club. She has died without fulfilling her “long-cherish wish”: to be untied with her twin daughters who were lost in China. At the first meeting‚ her daughter Jing-Mei learns that her long-lost half sisters is in China. Her aunties
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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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