Joy Luck Club Comparative Analysis

In The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan uses dull and harsh imager as well as elaborated unrealistic figurative language in order to convey the piano teacher as strange and concealed In The Joy Luck Club, Tan explains the lessons in an elaborated manor to reveal how the kid feels about the teacher. In the second paragraph, the author shares her opinion of the teacher, “ Mr.Chong[...] was very strange, always tapping his fingers to the silent music of an invisible orchestra ” By using figurative language, describing Mr. Chong as listening to a “Silent Orchestra”, the reader can visualize the strange and concealed manner that Mr. Chong relays, by tapping his fingers and seeming distant from his student. The author also uses figurative language to describe

In the world today there are a lot of miscommunications between mothers and their daughters. In “ The Joy Luck Club “ Amy Tan the author shows the miscommunications between Suyuan and her daughter Jing Mei. Tan shows the miscommunications by showing different situations throughout the story between Suyuan and Jing Mei. In the Joy Luck Club Tan shows the miscommunication between Jing Mei and suyuan.

In the book “The Joy Luck Club”, by Amy Tan, Jing-Mei Woo is asked to take her mother’s place in the Joy Luck Club. As she settles in she finds more about her mom then she knew when she was alive. She finds out that her mother had two covert twin daughters that she left back in China. As the story develops Jing-Mei is egged to find a way to go meet her sisters and fulfill her mother’s lifelong dream. “The Yellow Raft in Blue Water” by Michael Dorris is about three generations of Indian women Rayona, Christine, and Ida.

In Amy Tan’s novel, The Joy Luck Club, many cultural differences exist between the characters, creating complications in their relationships. An example of a cultural difference is between An-mei’s Chinese values and traditions and those of Christianity. The collision of these Chinese and Christian faiths profoundly influences An-Mei's character by causing her to doubt both faiths and resulting in her daughter Rose's inability to control her own choices. An-mei’s exposure to Chinese culture and the Christian faith results in an intermixing of both ideals which eventually leads to a cultural collision. An-mei is exposed to the traditional Chinese values of filial piety, wisdom, deference, and honesty through her grandmother.

(1st Slide) Distinctively Visual Distinctively Visual ideas in text have the power to provoke reactions from the responders. The elements of characterisation, dialogue, stage directions and dramatic techniques, cause responders to question the notions of normalcy, and challenge them to think and visualise in new ways. (2nd Slide)

When you give the reader a visual representation of a concept, they are able to put themselves in the situation and relate.

Although Wong Kar-wai experiments with numerous elements of film in Chungking Express, one of the most notable aspects of the movie relates to sound. Using both diegetic and non-diegetic sound cleverly throughout the film, Wong creates an atmosphere in which his audience is able to form a connection with his four central characters. He commences what could be considered the first act of the film with dramatic instrumentals, introducing Michael Galasso’s “Baroque” as it is juxtaposed with chase scenes enveloped in the night and illuminated only by few vibrant colored signs of shops. The same instrumental song appears several times more, restricted to only the first act of the film and only establishing its presence during similarly action-oriented

It makes the overall work more dark and robust.” Avery said that the variety and doctoring of the sounds made her feel disassociated from her surroundings and engaged in the new occurrences within the video. There is not one specific fear or theme to focus on, but rather a

Throughout the novel The Joy Luck Club, Jing-Mei Woo struggles with her sense of identity and belonging in a community as she is often embarrassed of her heritage, and prefers to live her life in the shadows. However, at the end of the book, Jin-mei finds peace when she seeks her roots and sisters in China. She finally finds her inner Chinese that she described is “in your blood waiting to be let go” (Tan 306). This shows that although immigrants of the time period often struggled with self identity, deep down they wanted to find acceptance in their

In conclusion, American Born Chinese successfully uses plot elements to have multiple effects on readers. All three stories use parallel plots because they are different perspectives and stories put together to create a bigger story. Jin-Wang’s story uses foreshadowing by having details that relate to the Monkey King. Lastly, the Monkey King’s story uses conflict and keeps the readers wanting to know how the conflict is dealt with. All three plot elements were successfully used to create emotions within the

Incompatible Interracial relationships are difficult to maintain in the United States because of differences in cultural upbringing as well as racism and xenophobia. The book The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan focuses on four Chinese mothers who describe their past hardships and adjustment to the United States as well as their relationships with their American born daughters. The mothers try to save their children from experiencing the same things that they have been through. In the book, there are a few interracial couples such as Rose Hsu and Ted, Waverly Jong and Rich, and Ying Ying St.Clair and her husband Clifford. They all have trouble loving and understanding each other.

The book and the movie possess similar qualities. First, in both the movie and the book, all the mothers left their old lives in China for a new one in America. ” My mother could sense that the woman of these families also had

Which came first, the chicken or the egg? This question has been hotly debated for centuries with no hardline conclusion. The question “do films shape culture, or does culture shape films?” has the same cyclical, unanswerable nature. Films cannot change culture without in some way reflecting it, and films cannot reflect culture without in some way affecting it. Film is inextricably intertwined in today’s culture, both as a means and as an outcome.

Bi, Zijian Thu. 3/5/2015 English 2B Ms. Freeland 2° WHEN THE DREAM COMES TRUE What is your American Dream? “The Joy Luck Club”, a novel by Amy Tan, talks about how four mother-daughter pairs have fulfilled their American Dreams. Suyuan and Jing-mei was one of the mother-daughter pair who wants to fulfill their dreams in America.

Throughout the entire novel, the mothers and daughters face inner struggles, family conflict, and societal collision. The divergence of cultures produces tension and miscommunication, which effectively causes the collision of American morals, beliefs, and priorities with Chinese culture which