Summary Of Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club

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.

How many English’s do you speak? Do you notice when speaking to strangers or at work that you actually speak differently than you would to your close family members? Meet Amy Tan, she is known for her book called The Joy Luck Club (1989). Tan has also been featured in several other magazines and she has authored Children’s books as well.

Traditions, heritage and culture are three of the most important aspects of Chinese culture. Passed down from mother to daughter, these traditions are expected to carry on for years to come. In Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club, daughters Waverly, Lena, Rose and June thoughts about their culture are congested by Americanization while on their quests towards self-actualization. Each daughter struggles to find balance between Chinese heritage and American values through marriage and professional careers.

 In the Joy Luck Club, the author Amy Tan, focuses on mother-daughter relationships. She examines the lives of four women who emigrated from China, and the lives of four of their American-born daughters. The mothers: Suyuan Woo, An-Mei Hsu, Lindo Jong, and Ying-Ying St. Clair had all experienced some life-changing horror before coming to America, and this has forever tainted their perspective on how they want their children raised. The four daughters: Waverly, Lena, Rose, and Jing-Mei are all Americans. Even though they absorb some of the traditions of Chinese culture they are raised in America and American ideals and values.  This inability to communicate and the clash

    The complexitities of any mother-daughter relationship go much deeper then just their physical features that resemble one another.  In Amy Tan’s novel The Joy Luck Club, the stories of eight Chinese women are told.  Together this group of women forms four sets of mother and daughter pairs. The trials and triumphs, similarities and differences, of each relationship with their daughter are described, exposing the inner makings of four perfectly matched pairs.  Three generations of the Hsu family illustrate how both characteristics and

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 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.

    Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club is a novel that deals with many controversial issues. These issues unfold in her stories about four Chinese mothers and their American raised daughters. The novel begins with the mothers talking about their own childhood’s and the relationship that they had with their mothers. Then it focuses on the daughters and how they were raised, then to the daughters current lives, and finally back to the mothers who finish their stories. Tan uses these mother-daughter relationships to describe conflicts of history, culture, and identity and how each of these themes are intertwined with one another through the mothers and

  The environment in which one grows up molds their character and behavior. The four daughters portrayed in The Joy Luck Club are of Chinese descent, yet they are not Chinese. The daughters speak in English, not the language of their mothers, Mandarin. The daughters are addressed by their English names, or they do not have a Chinese name at all. They think as Americans and have little memory of their Chinese thinking, customs or traditions.

Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club explores the role of family history in a person’s development. Tan’s subtext suggests that knowing the life story of one’s parents is paramount to gaining a whole sense of one’s self and growing up. More specifically, Jing Mei Woo, one of the main characters in the novel, is still a child at 36, her growth stunted by difficult experiences with her mother Suyuan, at a young age. In truth, Jing Mei never knew who her mother actually was until after her death, and she suffered because of it. However, once Jing Mei learns her mother’s history, she gains an understanding of herself that allows her to move forward and release the pain she has held onto for so many years.

Tan shows both perspective to give that background story of who they really are as a person. However, they don't come to conclusion with life decision allows us as reader to see which culture there more lean to,?I wasn't her slave. This wasn't China.? Her mother wants her to be obedient like if they never left China and jing-mei isn't agreeing with that. Her mother tells her not to be American more like the culture she was raised in,?Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind.? She couldn't do much living without that culture always coming in her life and stopping her from living a American life.

In her novel The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan tells of the lives of four Chinese immigrant mothers, their hopes, their dreams and the way each of their daughters feel about their mother's lives.  Mother-daughter relationships are the basis for the entire story.  Tan shows the hardships each mother experiences as a child and young adult, and how they all want better lives for their daughters.  She shows the struggles between the mothers and the daughters;  these struggles result from many different things, from the cultural gap, to dreams and goals that may have been set too high.  Each daughter knows her mother means well, but this does not make the battles any

Written by Michael Dorris, A Yellow Raft in Blue Water is a novel about three generations of Native American women, Rayona, Christine and Aunt Ida. The women live throughout hardships, hidden secrets and shattered family bonds. The novel is broken down into three sections corresponding to the three perspectives of the Native women. Each woman expresses their feelings and tells their story all linking up together. Towards the end of the novel, a gathered opinion can be made on the three characters true to all the viewpoints. The Joy Luck Club is a movie, based off a novel written by Amy Tan, displaying the struggles of a group of Chinese women and their daughters. The women grew like a family when they moved from China to San Francisco. The woman in the joy luck club all experienced rape, domestic violence or being abandoned by their family early in adulthood. Christina, Ida and Suyuan all live a life full of betrayal and resentment. As perspectives are explained, the characters of Christina, Ida and Suyuan reveal the truth about their lives, showing the reasoning of their sorrow.

Humans are social creatures. Solely because of this fact of nature do different languages, societies, and cultures exist across the world. The basic human need to connect led people to write letters, first by hand, then by typewriter, then by computer. It led to social media and hashtags, pen pals and integrated cultures. While words can be helpful in expressing thoughts, feelings, and ideas, miscommunication can end in chaos by starting fights or misrepresenting sentiments.

The Joy Luck Club, written by Amy Tan, has many stories within the actual book that describe the relationships between the four Chinese mothers and their American-born daughters. The mothers and daughters hold weekly parties where they play games and enjoy each others company. “And each week, we could hope to be lucky. That hope was our joy. And that's how we came to call our little parties Joy Luck.”(pg.25) However, Jing-mei “June” Woo, the main character, replaced her mother’s seat after her untimely death. All of the characters have truly captivating stories, but June specifically tells many stories eventually leading up to realizing that she is Chinese and that she should embrace it despite being American-born. This novel is truly mesmerizing