Compare And Contrast Joy Luck Club And Waverly

First of all, the Joy Luck Club had so many conflicts and misunderstandings between almost all of the characters. Most of the conflicts were between Waverly and her mom. Some conflicts were just differences between Waverly and her mother because of the generation gap between the two. Her mom didn’t like the things she would do and she could never see herself doing things that Waverly was doing back when she was a child. There were also cultural and martial conflicts throughout the book also.

They all want to reach a certain goal. In “Many Rivers to Cross”, she desires to get out of that negative life and be better than her mom and father. She does not want to struggle for money or continuously look for jobs. “I wanted to be strong”, she said, “I never wanted to be weak again as long as I lived” (Jordan, 65). All her life she had felt dead and she just wanted to feel like she was alive. Life was hard for her and she knew it would always be hard, but she wanted to be able to live through it. In the short story “Two Kinds”, her desire is simply to be who she wants to be. Life has its way sometimes to make people feel obligated to be what people want them to be mainly because of what that other person has been through. It is not a terrible thing to do except when it stops a person from making their own decisions. Her mother is pushing her to be something she is not and what she wants is her mother to see through to her that what she wants is not making her happy. The character talked about how she felt like she was disappointing her mother and parents tend to do that. In one scene while she was looking at herself in the mirror, she said, “This girl and I were the same,” “I had new thoughts, willful thoughts, or rather thoughts filled with lots of won’ts,” “I won’t let her change me, I promised myself,” “I won’t be what I’m not” (Tan, 16-19). At that exact moment the reader can see that the author is trying to say that sometimes

Our parents often play an important role in shaping us into the type of people we will eventually become. In the short story “Two Kinds” written by Amy Tan, Tan portrays a mother daughter relationship through the daughters eyes while she struggles with her mother trying to make her into prodigy. Although I was never thought to be a prodigy, I was very good at soccer, and therefor I was forced to play it. Like Jing Mei, I played soccer because I wanted my parents to be proud, I wanted to be socially accepted, and

    The commonly known phrase “like mother, like daughter” holds very true with all the pairs of mothers and daughters in The Joy Luck Club.  Rose posses important characteristics that were passed on by her mother, An-mei.  Uniquely with this couple, the trait can also be traced back to An-mei’s mother.  All three of these women have difficulty

Characterization is a widely-used literary tool in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club. Specifically, each mother and daughter is a round character that undergoes change throughout the novel. Characterization is important in the novel because it directly supports the central theme of the mother-daughter relationship, which was relevant in Tan’s life. Tan grew up with an immigrant mother, and Tan expresses the difficulties in communication and culture in the stories in her book. All mothers in the book are immigrants to America, and all daughters grew up living the American lifestyle, creating conflict between the mothers and daughters due to miscommunication. Characterization of the mothers and daughters in Amy Tan’s The Joy Club creates and

In the novel, Joy Luck Club, we see Waverly Jong and June Woo’s competitiveness when Waverly becomes a child chess prodigy and June struggles to master the piano. This rivalry reflects how success and worth are depicted in this novel. A mother’s success would be encouraging or coercing their child to master a particular hobby and to improve constantly. A daughter’s worth would be determined by the daughter’s talents, and whether or not the daughter brings a good reputation for the family. We can tell that Lindo Jong was very proud of her daughter Waverly Jong when she was a chess prodigy, competed in different cities, and would bring home a myriad of trophies. Because Lindo was so proud of Waverly, she would brag excessively about her and

For the majority of her life, June has battled with the tedious thoughts of why her mother never seemed content with her. “Auntie Lin and my mother were both best friends and arch enemies who spent a lifetime comparing their children” (37). From infantry, June was constantly compared to Auntie Lin’s daughter, Waverly, up until they were in college when June fell short of surpassing the exemplary achievements of Waverly. Her indecisive ways resulted in two incomplete degrees in art and biology and her mother’s explanations of her brilliance to prove fruitless. Her excuse was “I was late-blooming, like Einstein, who everyone thought was retarded until he discovered a bomb” (38). The barrier of both June and Suyuan not being able to speak the other’s language fluently creates gaps in their relationship and the ability for June to understand the urgent message told through Suyuan’s story of escape. The day for gifting June Suyuan’s swan feather and explaining her efforts behind the small gesture never occurred, just as June was never able to show her mother her full potential. Upon discovering she has two sisters in China, June realizes she has not

In its essence, The Joy Luck Club, is about mother and daughter relationships. It especially focused on the want of the mothers to be able to connect with their adult daughters who seemed to not be able to fully understand their mothers due to cultural and generational gaps. There is also an overlaying fear that their collective wisdom and hope and dreams will not be passed on to their daughters. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant…They see daughters who grow impatient

The relationship a mother has with her daughter is one of the most significant relationships either person will possess. In Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club, the stories of four mothers and their respective daughters are established through vignettes, which reveal the relationships between them. Throughout the novel, the mothers and daughters are revealed to be similar, yet different. Lindo and Waverly Jong can be compared and contrasted through their upbringings, marriages, and personalities.

The Joy Luck Club is a novel by Amy Tan which tells the individual, cohesive stories of Chinese American daughters and their Chinese mothers. In each story, the cultural differences between mother and daughter acts as a wedge between them. The conflicting cultures of descent and consent causes a conflict between mother and daughter; although they ultimately want to have a relationship with each other, the differences in values make coming together harder. For the mothers, their expectations for their daughters are high, while the daughters are trying to understand how China fits into their American lives. This conflict between values perpetuates until there is an acceptance of each way of life.

The story is very relatable for me. For example Ni kan's mother pushed Ni kan to do her best and become a prodigy even though Ni kan was trying and Ni kan's mother didn't even ask Ni kan what she wanted to do my mother does the same thing. She pushes me to play an instrument ones that she wishes she had played when she was in high school. First it was piano but I lost interest after learning a part of Handel's The Royal Fireworks because all I ever learned was classical music and I wanted to learn music that I listened to and the things that I loved. After that idea failed my mom got me singing lessons. That idea is still going strong. Now I am also playing guitar but it is such a struggle because I am trying to do self teaching and it is very difficult when you have to watch others online but you can't ask question, can't be shown in person what you're doing wrong and the list goes on and my mom doesn't understand and so she thinks that I don't want to do it or I am not trying hard enough like Ni kan's mom. My parents even went as far as to buy me a Martin guitar and I haven't touched it for a couple of months now. Just like Ni kan got a piano and hardly touched it. I feel like Ni kan's mother was trying to live out her dreams through her daughter just as I feel like my mother is trying to live her dreams out through me. When in reality I realize that my mom just wants the best for me and wants me to excel in everything I put my

In fact, June grew up in a small neighborhood, in which she didn’t not have as many opportunities as she has now in America. As the mother comes to America she is experiencing a new life with bigger and better things. Her intentions for making June a prodigy were to gain bragging rights respect among small Chinatown, just like her friend, Auntie Lindo, whose daughter was “Chinatown’s Littlest Chinese Chess Champion. “ The mother just wanted June to have a bright and better future for her and to become a prodigy as she always visualized she'll be. Unlike the mother in, "Everyday Use" she had no intention of gaining any other knowledge then the one she already had. She was happy with what she knew of her heritage, but her daughter Dee knew

The novel The Joy Luck Club(1989) which written by Amy Tan has got a big success at that time, in the novel, it has vividly shown the difficult relationship between mothers and daughters and the life of the immigrant families. After that, the novel The Joy Luck Club has been remade the same name movie and released in 1993, which also got big succeed in this movie version. In comparison research on an individual’s preference, more audiences will prefer the movie version, because the tone, background music and the visual impact are better than the book version.

expectations, not showing promise in any field her mother finally decides that she will become a

From the film The Joy Luck Club, Chinese girls were supposed to act obedient and respectful to their parents and elders. This included the girls having to abide by each and every Chinese tradition that their parents instilled in them. Girls were also expected to be quiet and considerate to their parents and elders. They were only supposed to speak when spoken to at all times. Acting out against anything their parents enforced upon them was completely unacceptable.