Character Analysis: The Joy Luck Club

No one is the same everyone is a different person and while people may have similarities they are still different people with different ideas and thoughts and outlooks on life even mothers and daughters. Such as the daughters and mothers in the book, The Joy Luck Club.

Christopher Reeve once said, "A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles." (“Christopher Reeve.”) The quote is remarkable. The strong and mighty Superman spoke it himself…but nowhere in the quote does it say that a hero must be strong and mighty like Superman was. This quote can apply to anybody, evident by its use of the word “ordinary”. Throughout the semester, I had the opportunity to develop an opinion on what I would consider a ‘strong female character.’ Eventually, one teenage female came to mind. Her name is Callie and she appears on the popular television series, The Fosters. Even though many may say that Callie is an irrational teenager because of her choices,

The Fault in Our Stars depicts Hazel Grace Lancaster, a 16-year-old girl diagnosed with terminal thyroid cancer. The book chronicles her relationship with Augustus Waters, who has also been diagnosed with cancer. Throughout the novel, Hazel constantly struggles with her identity in relation to her disease. She is conflicted whether to accept the prescribed image society has of her or to embrace her true inner self. Through a period of self-realization, she eventually comes to terms with and redefines her identity. Although society may define an individual’s self-image, The Fault in Our Stars demonstrates that identity is defined by the inner self, rather than external forces; in turn, that self-perception deeply impacts one’s perspective on life.

In the movie Silver Linings Playbook, Pat Solatano, Sr., the character of the father, a sixty-five year old male, exhibits symptoms and meets the diagnostic criteria for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD), as explained in the DSM-V (CITE APA). He also participates in gambling. The character presents with extreme organization, in his study, by numbering envelopes, and organizing the recordings of the Philadelphia Eagles football games in precise order. He is obsessed with the Philadelphia Eagles football team and their success. His symptoms present as ritualistic and repetitive. He exhibits attachment to his son Pat, Jr., and feels he brings the football team good luck. The symptoms present daily, and many are specific to the Philadelphia Eagles football games. He wears special clothing that is the team color of green, and

Great, no one said she couldn't but her being traumatized still makes no sense if she's not traumatized by all the other shit.

Despite cultural and generational conflicts families face, the novel, Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, shows deep rooted, love filled relationship between a mother and a daughter. Daughters in the novel go through teenage rebellion causing a strained bond between them and their mothers. Consequently, the phase hurts their relationships, but benefits the families later on. “Which one is American? Which one is Chinese? Which one is better (266)?” The mothers and daughters go on the journey of life to find a balance between their two cultures. Along the way, the mothers learn life lessons from the daughters, causing the mothers in return, to teach them valuable lessons. Together the family members have an unbreakable bond filled with love.

Imagine moving from Los Angeles, California to a small town in Wisconsin and not knowing anyone at the new school. Anyone in this situation would want to make friends that would accept them in the new town. This is the position Levi, one of the main characters in Elizabeth Eulberg’s Better off Friends, is in when he starts middle school. Macallan, the other main character, is the person that befriends Levi, and they become very close very fast. Being a new kid from down south, many people stereotype Levi because of how he looks and the way he acts, which was normal in Los Angeles where he used to live, but odd to the people in Wisconsin. For this reason the boys at school did not really want to hang out with Levi, and that is why he and Macallan become such good friends in a short amount of time. The two of them could find a lot that they had in common, even though they were from completely different places. Macallan and Levi were together a lot, so when they hung out just the two of them, people would think they were dating when they were not. This is the second stereotype addressed in the book; a boy and a girl that spend lots of time together do not have to be a boyfriend and a girlfriend. Throughout middle school and high school, they were constantly asked if they were dating, when they were not. Therefore, in Better off Friends by Elizabeth Eulberg, Eulberg addresses stereotypes about where people come from and people of the opposite gender being just friends.

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan tells the story of Lindo and her daughter Waverly, two Chinese-Americans immigrants. Lindo came to America after escaping her arranged marriage in China in search of a better future for herself and her family. A few years after arriving in America, Lindo gave birth to a daughter whom she named Waverly. Lindo teaches Waverly the power of ‘invisible strength’ and nurtures her natural chess talent, all with the intention of providing better opportunities for her daughter.  These actions however have the opposite effect because as Waverly grows up, she  becomes vexed with her mothers controlling nature, and Lindo trying to seek a claim to Waverly’s success at chess. Lindo and Waverly conflict as Lindo wants Waverly to have the chances she was not given growing up, but fears Waverly will lose touch and disregard her Chinese heritage.

which her mother replied with, “That’s the trouble. You never [live up to expectations]. Lazy to

Eeshna Nath Cultural Paper: The Fosters The Fosters is a family drama series that premiered in 2013 on Freeform. The Fosters’ family includes a mix of biological and adopted members because of the lesbian couple that chose to adopt. The show has been running for five seasons and handles many controversial topics. It portrays LGBTQ+ themes in ways that connect with their audience.

Throughout Asia, numerous Ume trees dot the landscape. As they grow, brilliant white flowers bloom to reveal beauty and maturity. However, these delicate petals only mask the hardships their branches endure. Resilient and unique, the Ume tree reflects Henry's life in the 1940s. As Keiko, Henry's best friend, is taken to a Japanese internment camp, and his father disowns him, Henry learns to adapt and overcome the affliction relationships create. In Jamie Ford's Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, Henry's relationships spark conflict to define his future character.

The book The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold was able to accurately show how an imperfect family dynamic works under great stresses. She also was able to show how dysfunctional a family is even when the unit is just living day to day life. I think the most overarching binary opposition is Child vs. Adult because of how they all deal with Susie’s death. In its complexity, Abigail shows signs of an internal conflict when she starts to become helpless in devolving to a child-like mentality, and giving into her child-like desires.

In the novel, Brave New World, there are several characters who are different from the rest of society. There could be an argument made that Bernard, John, or even Helmholtz, experience exile. However, Linda experiences things she did not even know existed because of her exile. When Linda becomes lost during her trip to the reservation, she is cut off from her home and has no hope of returning. Linda is alienated in the savage reservation because of her inability to understand monogamy, motherhood, and a classless society. What Linda gains is the ability to care for a partner, a child, and independence from the society she was designed to be dependent on.

With the store closed Francis was to live without being the centre of southern Foley for the first time in his life. One of the first thing he set about doing was to hold an auction to divest himself of most of the items from the old store that he had no use for, but understood, perhaps better than most, that his old customers just might want some of the items for nostalgic reasons. The much anticipated auction was held on Saturday, August 28, 1992 at 11 am. Items for sale included the old Texaco sign, the Five Roses or Pepsi tin adverts, oil lamps, Francis's used suspenders and even the antique rounded candy display. Interestingly, the license plate collection was not offered being sold in a private deal. Francis did not go suspender-less. He still had a few hanging up in his back kitchen a decade later.

The history story telling is one of the most important part of our civilization. Regardless the plot of story, some stories or fiction got so deep rooted in our culture and the are emotionally so strong that it becomes very complicated for a person to get rid of that event. The Game of Luck is an enchanting story with masterful use of setting and sensational characters that engages readers and can move them to experience life in a deeper way. As a child, Peter john lived in south Africa until his father passed away. Then his mother moved them to United Kingdom . Mrs. Peter made certain that her children learned English literature and languages. It was probably due somewhat to his mother’s influence