social dimension of education

The Joy Luck Club is the first novel by Amy Tan, published in 1989. The Joy Luck Club is about a group of Chinese women that share family stories while they play Mahjong. When the founder of the club, Suyuan Woo, died, her daughter June replaced her place in the meetings. In her first meeting, she finds out that her lost twin sisters were alive in China. Before the death of Suyuan, the other members of the club located the address of June’s half-sisters. After that, they send June to tell her half-sisters about her mother’s life. In our lives there are events, and situations that mark our existence and somehow determine our life. In this novel, it shows how four mothers and their daughters were impacted by their tradition and beliefs. In the traditional Asian family, parents define the law and the children are expected to follow their requests and demands; respect for one’s parents and elders is critically important. Traditions are very important because they allow us to remember the beliefs that marked a whole culture.

Winnie got mad at her mother and father then ran to the white fence. Then she ran in the woods. Then winnie met jesse tuck. Then the family kidnapped winne. and took her to there house.

The Joy Luck Club is Amy Tan's first novel. It consists of four sections with sixteen short stories. One of the main issues of the novel is the relationship between Chinese mothers and their Chinese – American daughters. ‘‘Your mother is in your bones.’’ (Tan 1998, 30) There is a cultural chasm between them because of the difference in the way they were brought up and different influences of the environment.

Amy Tan, who wants to understand and figure out her own affiliation between her another mother, wrote The Joy Luck Club. This book explains and uses words to show the differences between the daughters and their mothers by putting in the Chinese culture and the western culture in the article. The Joy Luck Club has four different sections. And they all have common backgrounds but have different meanings behind them.

Winnie's next hardship came when she was forced to live with her aunt, uncle, and spoiled cousins. Winnie felt unwanted and unloved. Winnie is older than her cousin Peanut, but because she is a "bad" child, soiled by her mother's bad name, she is looked down on. When she became the right age, the family gave her to the family of Wen Fu, who was to become her new husband. At first, Wen Fu was loving and gentle. But as time went on, he became increasingly aggressive with Winnie. The first example of this is shortly after their new union, when they are in bed together. Winnie tells Pearl that Wen Fu was "kissing my nose, my cheeks and shoulders, telling me how beautiful I was, how happy I made him." Within the next ten minutes, Wen Fu has turned into a tyrant. "He whispered for me to say dirty words, words for women's body parts--not any woman's body parts....the kind (of woman) who would give her body to foreign sailors." From this point on, Wen Fu's abuse becomes more extensive and frequent.

Raymond Chandler, a fiction writer, once said, "The most durable thing in writing is style." True, the style is often defined as one of the most important elements in writing. In Amy Tan's novel, "The Joy Luck Club", the style significantly contributes to the development of both the tone and the theme of the influences that a mother can have on her daughter. The author effectively portrays the somber tone and the theme by using a concise style of diction, images, details, language, sentence structure, point of view, and organization.

An author's cultural background can play a large part in the authors writing. Amy Tan, a Chinese-American woman, uses the cultural values of Chinese women in American culture in her novel, The Joy Luck Club. These cultural values shape the outcome of The Joy Luck Club. The two cultural value systems create conflict between the characters.

culture and it teaches important life lessons that anyone can learn from. Tan depicts in her stories

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.

Amy Tan, born February 19, 1952, was an American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships and the Chinese-American experience. As a child Amy Tan believed her life was duller than most. She read to escape. Her parents wanted her to be a doctor or a concert pianist, however, she secretly dreamed of becoming an artist. She began writing fiction when she was thirty-three.

The common theses of Amy Tan’s work include hope, loss, mother-daughter relationships, failure, and success. Amy Tan is extremely effective in connecting with the reader through themes and lessons. The prominent theme of mother-daughter relationships is evident in The Joy Luck Club because “[her] mother believed you could be anything you want in America” (Tan 132). The effect and influence of mother-daughter relationships is evident in The Joy Luck Club because it demonstrates the formation of the American voice by expressing the deep connection intertwined between four women and their daughters that were born in America. In the novel, Aunti An-Mei hoped that “in America, [she] will have a daughter just like [her]. But over there nobody will say her worth is measured by the loudness of her husband’s belch. Over there nobody will look down of her, because I will make her speak only perfect American English” (Tan 17). This quote encompasses hope for a new life in America that will provide an opportunity for her daughter to fulfill her own dreams and goals for the new future ahead in America. This quote also demonstrates the theme of mother-daughter relationships by making a point about wanting the best for her daughter in America in every

    Amy Tan's immensely popular novel, The Joy Luck Club explores the issues faced by first and second generation Chinese immigrants, particularly mothers and daughters. Although Tan's book is a work of fiction, many of the struggles it describes are echoed in Maxine Hong Kingston's autobiographical work, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts. The pairs of mothers and daughters in both of these books find themselves separated along both cultural and generational lines. Among the barriers that must be overcome are those of language, beliefs and customs, and geographic loyalty. The gulf between these women is sadly acknowledged by Ying-ying St. Clair when she says of

History, Culture and Identity of Mothers and Daughters in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club

Amy Tan is an American Born Chinese, daughter of immigrants, and her family shares many features with the families depicted in her novels. Tan's novels offer some glimpses of life in China while developing the themes of mother-daughter relations, cultural adaptation and "women with a past".  Tan’s novels share many themes and elements, but this paper will focus mainly on two episodes of the novel The Joy Luck Club: "The Joy Luck Club" and "Waiting Between the Trees"; and will make references to The Kitchen's God Wife and The Hundred Secret Senses.

The sociology of education is a condition of human survival. This means education is a social institution through which a community of people and people in the world teach children the basic related to school and learning. The knowledge, learning skills,normal and accepted behavior or beliefs in a group of people. Every nation has some form of teaching though their individual systems with the major factors affecting the useful valuable supplies and money that are used to support those systems in different Émile Durkheim and Max Weber were known as the fathers of education in sociology. Émile Durkheim a French sociologist, social psychologist and philosopher, who started the academic discipline and the principal of modern social science. Durkheim was also known as the father of sociology. Max Weber a German sociologist, philosopher, jurist, and political economist. His ideas profoundly influenced social theory and social research. This was considered the beginning of sociology of education.