Joy Luck Club Culture

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.

Four Chinese mothers have migrated to America. Each hope for their daughter’s success and pray that they will not experience the hardships faced in China. One mother, Suyuan, imparts her knowledge on her daughter through stories. The American culture influences her daughter, Jing Mei, to such a degree that it is hard for Jing Mei to understand her mother's culture and life lessons. Yet it is not until Jing Mei realizes that the key to understanding who her

Over there nobody will look down on her, because I will make her speak only perfect American English.  And over there she will always be too full to swallow any sorrow!  She will know my meaning because I will give her this swan- a creature that became more than what was hoped for.”  (Tan 1)  The culture in China the mothers of Joy Luck dealt with was unlike anything their daughters could ever imagine or appreciate. Between the mothers Lindo, Suyuan, An-mei and Ying-ying, the Chinese culture forced them into being married by a matchmaker, giving up babies, witness desperate attempts to save loved ones, and having an abortion.  In many ways the Chinese culture scared each woman, although they were proud of their heritage, their daughters deserved better.  These four mothers had very high hopes for the better lives that they wanted to give their daughters by raising them in America.  They didn’t like or want to have their daughters looked down upon, just because they were Chinese women.  From each of their own experiences, they learned that they wanted to improve the lives of their following generation.

Waverly was going to tell Lindo of her and Rich’s engagement, but whenever she mentioned him, Lindo cut her off and began to talk about something else. Waverly was convinced that her mother did not have any good intentions, and that she never saw good in people. Due to this, she was afraid of what her mother will say when she would meet Rich. According to Waverly, she and Rich shared a “pure love”, which she was afraid her mother would poison. Waverly planned to go to Auntie Suyuan’s house with Rich for dinner, knowing that her mother would then invite the two over for dinner to her house, and this would give her mother a chance to get to know and warm up to Rich. However, when they went for dinner, Rich did everything incorrectly- he didn’t understand Chinese customs and made several mistakes that were seen as

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

All literature is created by themes, without themes, they would simply be stories, and within those themes are patterns; constantly repeating throughout the work. Throughout the novel, The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, the use of themes and repeating patterns are seen through four different families. Some of the most prominent themes or patterns are family, specifically mother-daughter relationships, women and femininity, and growth in characters.

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.

In The Joy Luck Club, language devices such as figurative language, diction, sentence structure, and significant detail are used to characterize the different characters in the book. These language devices capture the characters’ emotions, personality, qualities of mind, and goals. Amy Tan uses a variety of language devices to characterize Ying-ying’s emotions of sorrow, disconnection, shame, love, her passive, careless personality, and her quality of mind of determination.

Many themes within The Joy Luck Club can be related to current events. The theme of “Sacrificing/Suffering” which is an important theme in the book also relates to what is happening in Venezuela. The Fox News article named Venezuela’s currency now worth less than ‘World of Warcraft’ gold states that according to DolarToday, an American website dedicated to Latin American finance, the Venezuelan currency called the Venezuelan Bolívar is now worth less than the currency in “World of Warcraft” (Gold Pieces) which is a video game: one dollar being worth 10,987 Venezuelan Bolívars, or worth 7,288 Gold Pieces as the black market rate. This is a circumstance similar to one in the beginning of The Joy Luck Club where Suyuan Woo says that in China

The novel The Joy Luck Club written by Amy Tan influences American culture by providing a glimpse inside the culture of Asian American women with a focus on the honor, obligations, and restrictions imposed. These glimpses allow Americans to understand the history and behavior of Asian Americans, which in my opinion teaches how to overcome, believe in yourself and furthermore, respect and support one another regardless of differences. When I consider additional artifacts that have a similar impact the novel, Wonder by R.J. Palacio comes to mind. This particular novel brings to light the struggles of a child with developmental differences and raises awareness to bullying and the emotions endured by the child and his family. The novels share

The song “Keep Me in Your Heart”, as sung by Warren Zevon, would add so much to the scene in “The Joy Luck Club” (Amy Tan 1), as it matches perfectly with the depressing, morbid mood the scene is trying to portray, and also because it sheds some light into the motive of Suyuan’s actions through its poetic and thoughtful lyrics. This song was picked first because I believe it would perfectly introduce the reader/audience to the book and allow them to connect with more than just the text. Firstly, the song portrays emotions of longing and broken-heartedness through its sad and slow tempo and its depressingly perfect lyrics. The lyrics “Keep me in your heart for a while//If

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.

The title of the book is The Joy Luck Club, which Amy Tan wrote. The two main places that the story takes place in are China and San Francisco. However, there are several different years in which the story takes place. Some include 1918, 1923, and multiple undisclosed years. The story is told in first person with viewpoints from many different characters.

This study proved that even the professional astrologers could not match the correct personality test with the astrological chart better than the fifty-fifty chance. This experiment shows that each person’s astrological sign does not describe their personality, because when the professionals did pick the sign that described their personality, it was not the correct

Humans are gullible creatures who often believe everything they hear or see to be the truth. It is not uncommon for one to check their horoscope based on their zodiac sign. I admit, I have been one of those people who believed that their personalities and daily lives can be categorized based on their date of birth, and expect that these vague generalizations of common traits and behaviors are tailored to their own lives, leading them to believe it is the truth. However, I later realized that one can not determine my personality if they have never met me, though before then, I had not realized that since I expected the horoscope to reflect my daily life, I believed it was true. One’s expectations can truly alter their perception of