Amy Tan's The Joyluck Club Essay

Rose Quartz had been gone for years now. Everyone was just now adjusting to her absence. It was still quiet at the place the Crystal Gems called home. It was somewhat unsettling but she had grown used to it. They didn't talk much with her gone. It seemed as if there was no one to care. Well, maybe they did.. Intimidation probably kept them at bay. Rose had watched over them for so long. She was the "Mom" of the group. She cared for Pearl, Garnet, and Amethyst. Garnet had stepped up to the plate now that she was gone. She was now the leader of the group. Yet, Rose had big shoes to fill.

Rose is unable to fully accept herself or the statements made by her mother throughout the chapter, until she reflects back on her relationship and realizes how her mother predicted this by the condition of the garden taken care of by her husband. She understands her mother finally and stands up to Ted, explaining to him how she was going to fight for everything in the divorce.

Rose holds the Maxson family together as if she was the glue of the family. She treats everyone the same, whether they are kin to each other or not. She looks past the bad things in order to stay positive. Rose always has something to eat laying around the kitchen for anyone and everyone that is in the Maxson house even if they are not family. Rose, Troy’s foil, brings out the good in Troy, and she does her best to keep him from doing things he should not do. Rose keeps the Maxson family together with her kind and loving heart.

Family and obligation has a lot of meaning in this book. August Wilson captured every piece of it perfectly. Even though family didn’t get along very well there was still tension there. No one really got along with Troy, Lyons didn’t have a good relationship with his brother Corey because he was always in jail. Rose eventually gave up on Troy also. Those things still didn’t make Rose give up on her family as she now takes care of Raynell on her

His kind of punishment wasn’t a time-out or a swat on the behind as most children receive. His were the kind that affects a child for a lifetime. Rose has no idea whether she is about to be beaten or if she’ll endure other horrors from her

The story of Briar Rose is a mysterious, interesting, and sometimes depressing book which keeps you on the edge of your seat to find out what twist will happen next. It is a darker version of the fairy tale, so if you pick it up don’t be surprised expecting something like Disney's Sleeping Beauty because this is not an ordinary fairy tale that has witches or curses.

Life is a cruel reminder that we can not always get what we want. After her child dies, she comes to the realization that life is not just about herself and her wants and needs. “An’ Connie says I’m gonna have a doctor when the baby’s born; an’ he says we’ll see how times is…” (p. 224). In similar instances scattered throughout the book, Rose of Sharon only focuses on those things that pertain to her life, not caring as much about the other people struggling around her.

The way Rose is able to make so many students of today’s day and age relate to what he has written is praiseworthy. Especially, considering the time frame in which it was written. It’s almost shocking that there are still so many of these exact problems today. There are so many people out there today who are educationally underprepared.

Rose was born into a rich family, so she to have a education. Most kids her age didn’t have a good eduction or didn’t have an education

He abandons these responsibilities time and time again, and is never sorry for it. He goes as far as cheating on his wife, never apologizing for it. He does it to escape his world and the problems that come with it, and doesn’t understand why Rose is not empathetic and understanding. He says “Rose, you’re not listening to me. I’m trying the best I can to explain it to you. It’s not easy for me to admit that I been standing in the same place for eighteen years,” (Wilson 70). One can see here that he doesn’t understand why she is upset, and thinks she should be understanding and compassionate. He never truly realizes that he was the one in the

The only time Rose feels peace and tranquility throughout the story is at the point in which she commits suicide (Wilson, Kathleen). The death of Rose not only brings peace to Rose herself, but to the family of Rose - they know she will never be in a better place. Rose’s mother felt the relief of her daughter’s pain after she commits suicide, taking away the anxiety and absurdity the family went through for they beloved Rose. Nothing else could cure the pain of Rose’s short-lived life. Clara Kean, from the Schizophrenic Bulletin at Oxford Journals, personally is diagnosed with schizophrenia.

To start with, Campbell explains that departure is the first stage in which the character traverses through to enter the unknown. To demonstrate, at the time of her meeting and eventual marriage to Ted, she explains that “Ted were precisely the things that made him different from my brothers and the Chinese boys I had dated… the fact that his parents immigrated from Tarrytown, New York, not Tientsin, China” (Tan 117). Rose’s comment on Ted shows that she married him because of how different he was from her Chinese ethnicity. Therefore, her willingness to marry a foreigner has brought her into a journey in which she will eventually have to face.

I know that Rose is a teenager, but I cannot seem to relate to her and that is the kiss of death in a book, for me at least. And thus, I don't think that I can keep on reading from her perspective, and the moments that she was in Lissa's mind - moments that used to bother me to no end -

As Rose arrived at the very centre of the kingdom, she saw that everyone had shown up which pleased her as she had a speech to give and would’ve loved everyone to hear it. The coffin holding the king’s body was being held by a podium with hearts all around it. The funeral having been set in the middle of the kingdom it was quite crowded and Rose still being young she couldn’t look at all the adults, so she made her way up to the second level to look down upon the funeral. She watched and after not long

Rose offers a theory intertwined with his personal story. The narrative follows from his school experiences as an underprepared student all through to his