Analysis Of The Book ' The Joy Luck Club '

The Joy Luck Club is the first novel by Amy Tan, published in 1989. The Joy Luck Club is about a group of Chinese women that share family stories while they play Mahjong. When the founder of the club, Suyuan Woo, died, her daughter June replaced her place in the meetings. In her first meeting, she finds out that her lost twin sisters were alive in China. Before the death of Suyuan, the other members of the club located the address of June’s half-sisters. After that, they send June to tell her half-sisters about her mother’s life. In our lives there are events, and situations that mark our existence and somehow determine our life. In this novel, it shows how four mothers and their daughters were impacted by their tradition and beliefs. In the traditional Asian family, parents define the law and the children are expected to follow their requests and demands; respect for one’s parents and elders is critically important. Traditions are very important because they allow us to remember the beliefs that marked a whole culture.

Four Chinese immigrant women meet to play mahjong, and tell stories, but there are darker stories not yet told. Each of these four women have daughters. The Joy Luck Club is based around the four women and their daughters revealing their secrets and hidden stories. The stories are told through flashbacks. Each identifying the struggles of life and redemption. And all these stories are revealed at a farewell party for June. Each one of the stories shares one common theme. This theme that Amy Tan conveys through the story is redemption. Some examples of redemption throughout the story is conveyed through relationships and also self redemption. This theme is conveyed through plot, character, and setting.

The mother-daughter relationships represented in Amy Tan’s novel The Joy Luck Club are influenced by many existing factors. Lena St. Clair, Ying-Ying St. Clair’s daughter, is a Chinese-American adult who lives with her forceful husband, Harold. Ying-Ying is a Chinese mother who travelled to America to live a better life after experiencing many hardships in China. Throughout the novel, the relationship between Lena and Ying-Ying is represented as weak and distant. These characters are prevented from having a healthy relationship because they do not support each other, they possess similar characteristics, and they are strong.

Women have been mentally abused throughout time creating a distraught conscience, which compels them to create a safer lifestyle. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan is a novel about eight women, four wives and four daughters, who moved from China to America. These four women meet in America and decide to meet once every week. The four mothers, Suyuan Woo, An-mei Hsu, Lindo Jong, and Ying-ying St. Clair, decide to have their daughters, Jing-mei Woo, Rose Hsu Jordan, Waverly Jong, and Lena St. Clair, join them. These women dealt with oppression caused by their gender and finding a new style of living just they could be reassured of their safety. Tan argues that the societal-driven mistreatment towards women has a damaging psychological impact and forces

In the novel The Joy Luck Club written by Amy Tan, there are several stories that intertwine into one novel. Each of the stories takes place China where the roles and the actions of woman are vastly different compared to American tradition. In the different stories, they all are about different mothers and daughters. Throughout the book, the reader can see the development in each relationship between mother and daughter with their conflicting backgrounds from China to America.

The novel, The Joy Luck Club describes the life of four mothers: Suyuan Woo, An-mei Hsu, Lindo Jong, and Ying-ying St. Clair and their four daughters: Jing-mei "June" Woo, Rose Hsu Jordan, Waverly Jong, and Lena St. Clair. All four of these families fled China in the 1940s and tried to retain and maintain their culture and heritage. All of the four daughters are very Americanized and the mothers try to show and teach each of their daughters a little about the chinese culture. All these mothers hope to give their daughter strength, respect for herself, and to create a strong bond and relationship between themselves. Tan gives us something to relate to by telling us the story of Chinese women and their daughters. The all may

In the final chapter of “The Joy Luck Club”, Jing-Mei is able to finally fulfil her mom´s wishes after her death. By flying to China with her father Jing-Mei is able to meet her twin sisters. During the trip Jing-Mai learns more about her mother and the way she loses the twins. Suyuan, Jing-Mei´s mom always hope about finding her missing daughters. When Jing-Mei is able to see her sisters for the first time, she sees how similar they look to Suyuan. Jing-Mai accepts herself the way she is. At the end Jing-Mai makes peace with her mom´s death.

In Amy Tan’s story “The Joy Luck Club,” Jing-mei recalls the struggles she is burdened by in not understanding the extensive sacrifices her mother made and the guilt she carries of never living to be her mother’s swan.

The Joy Luck Club is a book about the struggles of Chinese women and their daughters integrating into American society. Several patterns occur throughout many of the families throughout the book. Daughters’ independence and rebelling against their mothers, repetition of their mother's past actions, and the daughters misunderstanding their mothers. These all contribute to the pattern and themes that repeat in the book.

The Joy Luck Club, a novel written by Amy Tan, portrays the journeys and relationships between eight Chinese mothers and daughters. Lindo Jong, one of the four mothers from the novel, is betrothed to a boy named Huang Tyan-Yu when she is two years old. From then on, Lindo’s mother trains her to be a good housewife for her future family. When Lindo is twelve years old, her house gets flooded and consequently, Lindo’s mother forces Lindo to live with her husband’s family. Eventually, Lindo learns how to be a “proper” housewife under the commandment of Tyan-Yu’s mother, Huang Taitai. Lindo’s journey fits Joseph Campbell’s model of a “hero’s journey.” In The Hero’s Adventure, Joseph Campbell, a mythologist, divides a hero’s journey into three stages: the departure, fulfillment, and return. The departure initiates from something being lost or entering a “dark forest” (4), the fulfillment consists of trials that the hero must “have the courage to face” (4), and the return is accomplished by regaining what has been lost and bringing “a whole new body of possibilities into the field of interpreted experience for other people to experience” (4). Therefore, Lindo is a hero due to her departure from freedom, fulfillment through various trials presented by the Huang household, and return through her transformation and regainment of freedom and self.

The Joy Luck Club is a series of sixteen stories; eight stories deal with the lives of the Chinese immigrant mothers in both China and the United States. Each mother narrates two stories except for the two stories of Suyuan Woo which are narrated her daughter Jing- mei ' 'June ' ' Woo due to her mother 's recent death. The other eight stories focus on the lives of their American- born daughters; each two stories are narrated by one of the four daughters. The novel is set

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The Joy Luck Club is centered around the stories of four Chinese immigrant mothers --- Suyuan Woo, Lindo Jong, An-mei Hsu and Ying.ying St. Clair - and the conflicts and reconciliation they experience with their Americanized daughters - Jing-mei “June” Woo, Waverly Jong,

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