The Joy Luck Club : Jing Mei Woo

Reading Journal 1 Short Story Summaries- Jing-mei Woo: The Joy Luck Club- This section of the book starts off with Jing-mei discussing the fact that since her mother passed away she will now be taking over her seat in the joy luck club. After this information is shared, there is background information for the club these women are a part of. Expositional elements are shared in this section as well. In order to keep her family safe, Suyuan moved her twin daughters and herself to Kweilin with other

feel comfortable with the USA, some people despise the USA. In the Joy Luck Club, the mother of Jing-Mei-Woo wanted to start over in America and have a better life. “My mother believed you could be anything you wanted in America. You could open a restaurant. You could work for the government and get good retirement. You could buy a house with almost no money down. You could become rich. You could become instantly famous.” -Jing-Mei Woo. She also wanted to her new family to be successful. This is similar

The Relationships of Waverly Jong and Jing-mei Woo in The Joy Luck Club        Amy Tan in her novel The Joy Luck Club presents us with daughters who are striving to place themselves beyond the control of strong mothers and become individuals. Adrienne Rich in her book Of Woman Born calls this splitting from the mother, "matraphobia" (Rich, 235), and later notes: "The mother stands for the victim in ourselves, the unfree woman, the martyr. Our personalities seem dangerously to blur and overlap

In the Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, tells stories of four Chinese mothers and four Chinese-American daughters and their mother-daughter relationship. The four mothers met in a San Francisco church in 1949. Suyuan Woo, founder of the Joy Luck Club, convinced the other mothers An-Mei Hsu, Lindo Jong, and Yingying St. Clair to join the club. The club would meet every week at one of the mother’s house where they eat food, play mahjong, and brag about their daughters. The Chinese-American daughters tell

The Joy Luck Club follows the story of 4 mother and daughter pairs: Suyuan Woo and Jing-mei Woo, An-mei Hsu and Rose Hsu Jordan, Lindo Jong and Waverly Jong, and Ying-ying St. Clair and Lena St. Clair. In the beginning, Jing-mei Woo’s mother has died, so Jing-mei takes her place at the Joy Luck Club’s meetings. She learns that her sisters are in China and were tracked down by her mom right before she died. Jing-mei is given money to go to China to tell them about their mother, which was her mother’s

Whether it is wholesome or tough love, the bond of a mother and daughter can never be broken. “The Joy Luck Club” is the epitome of this notion. The anthology contains a series of sixteen vignettes, four of which belonging to one of each of the four members of The Joy Luck Club. These vignettes cover the perspectives of mothers who immigrated to America from China, along with the flip side point of view, taken over by each of their daughters. In the anthology, Tan reflects on her past life and incorporates

Improving Mother/Daughter Relationships in Amy Tan’s Joy Luck Club One day everything is going great, in fact things could not be better and then you say something and your friend turns to you and says “oh my god, you sounded just like your mother”.  That is when you freak out and think to yourself it is true I am turning into my mother.  This is every daughters worst nightmare come true.  When a young girl is growing up her mother always says and does things that the girl vows she will never

common theme of hope throughout the stories of The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. Even in the face of immeasurable danger and strife, the mothers and daughters in the book find themselves faithful in the future by looking to the past, which is only helped by the format of Tan’s writing. This is shown specifically in the stories of Suyuan and Jing-Mei Woo, Lena and Ying-Ying St. Clair, and Lindo and Waverly Jong. The vignette structure of The Joy Luck Club allows the stories to build on one another in a way

Amy Tan’s touching novel The Joy Luck follows four mothers/daughters pairings. Each pair had a momentous experience from childhood that had an impact on them in their adulthood. The impact is shown by the way Suyuan Woo, Lindo Jong, Ying-ying St. Clair, and An-mei Hsu, who left their country for their own respective reasons raise their daughters. The Joy Luck is centered around their American-born daughters Jing-mei “June” Woo, Waverly Jong, Lena St. Clair, and Rose Hsu Jordan. The problems each

Suyuan and Jing-Mei’s relationship in The Joy Luck Club In The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, Jing-Mei and her mother have a very rocky relationship. Tan develops a relationship between Suyuan and Jing-Mei that is distant in the beginning due to culture differences and miscommunication, but gradually strengthens with time and understanding. Both of them have different backgrounds and have been influenced by two different cultures. Suyuan grew up in China and behaves according to the Chinese