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The culture and setting of LuLing and Precious Auntie’s lives influenced the way they got treated and how they developed conservative views. Precious Auntie grew up in China during the time when families had a hierarchy. For example, when LuLing’s “mother” talked about Precious Auntie she said, “It’s because of old Granny that the lunatic nursemaid has stayed all these years”( Tan 209). LuLing’s mother could not do anything in the family without the grandmother's say. LuLing’s family had a solid

In particular, Wayne Wang’s 1993 film The Joy Luck Club and Tillie Olsen’s 1956 short story “I Stand Here Ironing” present accurate representations of the effects a mother’s protective nature affects her daughter’s personality and their

Different races, ages, and cultures determine the way people interrupt concepts. In The Joy Luck Club, written by Amy Tan, shows the cultures an interpretations of the mothers and daughters. Asian mothers and Asian-American daughters understand and see themes and concepts in distinct ways. Asian mothers and Asian-American daughters were raised in different cultures to diverse families with distinct ideas. When the mothers try to make their daughters understand some cultural concept, it is either

Jing-mei originally believed that in order to “be Chinese” one must live in China and abide by the stereotype of Chinese people; after her visit to China, she finds that “being Chinese” is accepting the Chinese DNA in her blood and understanding the culture. In the beginning of A Pair of Tickets, Jing-mei does not feel Chinese. She repeatedly denies being Chinese saying, “… and all of my Caucasian friends agreed: I was about as Chinese as they were” (Norton 179). She had never experienced the culture

Amanda Bilkasley Mrs. Landers Honors English 10 14 September 2015 The Quest for Independence Every day, people have to choose whether to do what they want to do or what somebody else wants them to do. In Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club, many of the daughters must choose between their own goals and their families’ hopes for them. Jing-mei struggles to determine what is more important, finding her own path in life or accepting her family’s ambitions for her, in order to show that compromise is a necessity

“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking” -Marcus Aurelius. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan revisits the troubles Chinese immigrants faced before coming to America in search of a new life. Each mother in the Joy Luck club recalls her past and the people and items she left behind, along with regrets later regrets. Personal stories and struggles in the novel are similar to real world events that have occurred within the past year. In early August

In the film, The Joy Luck Club, the song "I Learned From You" by Miley Cyrus and Billy, can be used to represent the relationship between Waverly Jong and her mother. The song would appear in Rules of the Game because it is when Waverly realizes that she learned her strength from her mother.   As the beginning of the scene, where Rules of the Game begins, the song should start playing. It is in the first words spoken by Waverly that she says, "...my mother taught me the art of invisible strength

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. The

Follow Your Heart Do you ever regret something you’ve said or done at all your life and wish you can take it back? “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan is about a young teenage girl, Jing-Mei, who is being pushed to become a prodigy. Jing-Mei and her mother's relationship took a dramatic turn after she says something so damaging and hurtful to her mother. Through the course of the story, Jin-Mei and her mother start to spread apart when her mother is constantly pushing her to be her best. Her mother was always

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan looks into mother-daughter relationships. Four pairs of daughter-mothers relationships are considered whereby the mothers were born in China but migrated to America where they bore their daughters. The daughters are Americanized and tend to identify more with the American culture at the expense of their Chinese culture. Suyuan Woo experiences much difficulty in trying to explain to her daughter June or Jing-mei certain cultures of the Chinese such as Confucianism, death