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Most people think language is used for communication, but it has more purposes. In the novel The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, the daughters and mothers encounter problems that require them to use their language. Tan shows how language can be a powerful weapon that determines one's fate. Language can be used to manipulate someone. For example, Lindo from The Red Candle uses her language to manipulate Huang Taitai into thinking that she is able to see all the negative outcomes that Tyan-yu and Lindo’s

Amy Tan story, “Two Kinds”, uses character development, conflict, flashback, and symbolism to express the love of one’s mother. This story starts off with the mother (Suyuan Woo) and daughter (Jing-Mei) trying to find something that the daughter can get really good at. They find one that there interested in but after a couple of sessions they found out that it wasn’t right for her daughter. So they try to do others things like the piano, but after several sessions with Mr. Chong her mother saw that

The short stories Two Kinds and Rules of the Game by Amy Tan show the significant connection that parents have a very significant impact on children as they grow up. These two short stories look at this connection from the perspective of the mothers. Two Kinds by Amy Tan is a short story that looks at the relationship between a Chinese mother and her daughter who are living in America. The first line of the story, “My mother believed you could be anything you wanted to be in America.” already shows

relationship differs, whether it is a happy or terrifyingly, angry relationship. This is shown in Amy Chua’s excerpt from “The Violin” in the memoir Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom and Amy Tan’s excerpt from “Jing-Mei Woo: Two Kinds” in the novel The Joy Luck Club. Chua writes with a more calm yet irritable tone, while Tan on the other hand is more aggressive and belligerent. First off, in “The Violin”, Amy Chua shows an irritable tone in the relationship with her daughter. Chua stated, “... my presence

In the Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, a mother died from cerebral aneurysm and June was asked to replaced her mother in The Joy Luck Club’s meetings after she passed away. The Joy Luck Club was a club who was started by Suyuan Woo, where four families she met in church went to share there stories about them while playing a game called Mahjong . The connections they had, had to deal more about hope than luck or joy . Each story they told was a symbol of fulfillment for all of them . Before Suyuan Woo

Throughout the book Joy Luck Club, the reader can see that the daughters are very americanized due to their mothers never teaching them enough Chinese heritage. The four daughters names are Jing-mei Woo, Rose Hsu Jordan, Waverly Jong, and Lena St. Clair. Jing-mei starts off the book by explaining what Joy Luck Club means and she found out that there is no direct translation, Jing-mei and the rest of the daughters think that their mothers are stupid because of their mothers’ horrible English. Language

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

distance in an already complicated relationship. Each has a different perspective because of their experiences. Language and cultural barriers separate individuals from the communities they are leaving and the communities they are joining. In The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, the author utilizes heart wrenching stories, linguistic barriers, and the symbolism of the “American Dream” to comment on the distancing properties of cultural assimilation to the immigration system in America. The immigration

In The Joy Luck Club author Amy Tan sculpts her characters through indirect characterization. This means that she doesn't directly describe the characters, but instead she reveals their soul through their thoughts, actions, and reactions throughout the novel. More specifically she molds the characters through their trying backgrounds and elaborate stories. One character with whom she does this very well is Suyuan Woo. Suyuan Woo is the mother of one of the main characters Jing-mei Woo. This feisty

An Unbreakable Bond     After receiving a glimpse of the histories of the Chinese-American mothers in Feathers from a Thousand Li Away, Amy Tan transitions into her second group of stories, The Twenty-Six Malignant Gates, with a vignette about a young, rebellious girl and her mother. The daughter is warned by her mother of the dangers of riding her bike around the corner. Ignoring the warning, the daughter goes against her mother’s wishes and rides her bike, falling before she even reaches the corner