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Terrifying Past Joy Luck Club
926 wordsIn the novel The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, four of the main characters have a secret in their past that haunt them constantly. Suyuan Woo, An-mei Hsu, Lindo Jong, and Ying-ying St. Clair all have terribly bad experiences in China. These women try to escape their past by moving to America, but their memories still disturb them. Not only does it plague their own minds, but it also affected their daughters lives and the way they were raised. Each of these women experienced terrible events in their ...
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Joy Luck Club Generational Dichotomy Of Culture
1,088 wordsIn a mixed race society, misunderstanding amongst different ethnicities occurs frequently. In her novel The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan asks what happens when different generations of the same heritage misunderstand each other. Tan focuses on the stifling relationships between mothers and daughters from seemingly separate centuries. The driving wedge proves to be cultural. Tan questions the role of culture in individuality and whether one can choose to ignore her history. After reading this novel, on...
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Maxine Hong Kingston Joy Luck Club
1,420 wordsThe idea of Destiny in The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston, and The Natural by Bernard Malamud The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston reflects on the fate on women using multicultural aspect. The women in China were regarded as substandard to men, and were valued in terms of their service, obedience, and the ability to give birth to boys. Chinese culture and religion inspire Chinese men to believe in social meaninglessness of women and this allows Chinese f...
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Mothers And Daughters Point Of View
864 wordsThe Joy Luck Club By Amy Tan In the last two chapters of part two of the novel the narrators are the daughters of An-mei Hsu Jordon and Susan Woo. The daughters of the Joyluck mothers narrate all of the second part of the novel. The daughters tell some of the same stories but from their point of view. In the third part of the novel, Queen Mother Of the Western Skies, the mothers tell their stories, which show their point of views. The author wrote this novel in sections so that the reader can ge...
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Status In Society Ying Ying
968 wordsIs it fair to judge someone by their sex? In traditional Chinese culture, many judgments were made about a person just by observing their sex. The women was looked upon as an inferior being. They had little or no status in society, and little was expected from them. They were discriminated against when they tried to stand up for themselves. Chinese culture was customarily male dominated. The male was expected to do most of the work, and the woman was expected to stay at home with their mouth shu...
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Joy Luck Club Lindo Jong
592 wordsIn the novel The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, the ignorance, the disregard of, and the necessity of love are all introduced as the characters tell their life stories and memories. The characters in The Joy Luck Club take love for granted. By ignoring love, concentrating more on material possessions, and hiding their true identities, the characters dont realize loves importance. One character that takes love for granted is Harold, Lena St. Clair's husband. This occurs when Lena leans over to him in ...
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Lindo Jong Amy Tan
636 wordsAmy tan s vision of an ideal women differs from the two different time periods, in the first story involving June, she depicts an ideal women of that time period as being independent and relying on herself, but as in the case of the other stories the children had lots of respect for their parents and did exactly as their parents told them to do. In Junes case she did have lots of respect for her parents but not as much as An-Mei and Lindo Jong. For example on page 14 she is explaining her arriva...
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Joy Luck Club Lindo Jong
863 wordsIn the novel, The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan, it tells of four Chinese women drawn together in San Francisco to play mah jong, and tell stories of the past. These four women and their families all lived in Chinatown and belong to the First Chinese Baptist Church. They were not necessarily religious, but found they could improve their home China. This is how the woos, the Hsu's, the Jong's and the St Clair's met in 1949. The first member of the Joy Luck Club to die was Suyuan Woo. Her daughter, Ji...
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Joy Luck Club Lindo Jong
717 wordsIn the novel, ? ? The Joy Luck Club? ? by Amy Tan, the ignorance and disregard of, and the necessity of love are all introduced. As the characters in the story explain their life stories and memories. The characters in? ? The Joy Luck Club? ? seemed to take love for granted, by ignoring love and concentrating on material possessions and hiding their true identities. It seems to me that they don? ? t notice or realize loves importance. Harold, Lens St. Clair? ? s husband is the one character that...
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