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    given environment or society as a whole. Moral behavior is any behavior that one person considers and believes is right and wrong‚ which can contradict the thoughts of the society’s conventional behavior. In each book‚ To Kill a Mockingbird‚ The Joy Luck Club‚ and Uglies‚ there was some sort of struggle that made some of the characters oppose what was considered conventional. Atticus‚ Jing Mei-Woo‚ and Tally all went against the conventional behaviors of their towns and in Jing Mei- Woo’s case‚ her

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    Reading Guides | | | The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan Paperback Other formats: Hardcover $16.00 add to cart Read more... | | | INTRODUCTION Through the stories of The Joy Luck Club‚ we peer into the secret-laden lives of eight Chinese immigrant mothers and their American-born daughters. The daughters reject their mothers’ seemingly constant criticism of everything they choose‚ from husbands to hairdos. They view their mothers’ warnings as irrelevant‚ and their advice as intrusive. The

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    Petrignani The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan’s novel The Joy Luck Club is a story of a monthly mah-jong gathering whose members consists of four Chinese mothers with American-born daughters. The novel is narrated by the four mothers and their daughters. At these meetings‚ the mothers share their concern of the growing rift between their daughters and Chinese customs. Each mother shares her story of her life in China and each daughter tells her story about her life in America. In The Joy Luck Club‚ the consistent

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    Returning to One’s Roots and Understanding Chinese Culture in The Joy Luck Club 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 for the American reader. With a culture that is exceedingly different from American way of life‚ Tan presents both cultures side by side in order to draw attention to their differences and benefits

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    1.)Jing Mei is the daughter of Suyuan who is part of the joy luck club. When Suyuan dies‚ Jing Mei has to replace her mother at the joy luck club. Jing Mei has to step up and fulfill her mother’s wish: To meet Suyuan’s twin daughters and tell them about Suyuan’s life. Also‚ jing mei’s mother is always criticizing her‚ wich Jing Mei takes as a lack of affection‚ but actually it is because that is the only way for her other to show love. Jing mei is now thirty six years old. Her mother is dead‚ and

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    Joy Luck Club Plot The eight main characters of the movie all had to contend with different types of conflicts‚ some such as Waverly’s Mother had to endure a type of social conflict from the 1st wife and other concubines‚ the unjust discrimination of the husband’s family‚ while other characters such as Mei-mei had to endure a life of living under the shadow of Waverly. But each of the characters despite having different types of conflicts be it elemental‚ physical or psychological‚ all had

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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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    Throughout The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan inserts various conflicts betweens mothers and daughters. Most of these relationships‚ already very fragile‚ become distanced through heritage‚ history and expectations. These differences cause reoccurring clashes between two specific mother-daughter bonds. The first relationship exists between Waverly Jong and her mother‚ Lindo. Lindo tries to instill Chinese qualities in her daughter while Waverly refuses to recognize her heritage and concentrates on American

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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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    In China‚ red is used to symbolize prosperity and good luck. A candle with a wick on both ends is lit to represent the happiness of a newly married couple. It is Chinese custom to light both ends and let them burn the whole night. If neither wick extinguishes during the night‚ it is said that the marriage will be successful and the bond is complete. Lindo Jong and her husband took part in this tradition. However‚ Lindo believed and felt that her “marriage” was not what she wanted‚ and she did not

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