Quotes From The Joy Luck Club By Amy Tan

Everyone regardless of difference in age, nationality or sex, is entitled to pursue individual wishes. This means no one should have the right to oppress another, even if they are bound by love. The Joy Luck Club, written by Amy Tan, tells the story of the relationships and personal accounts between four Chinese mothers and their American-raised daughters. Despite the clear cultural barrier dividing these mothers and their daughters, one issue is apparent in both societies. They suffer living under a marriage dominated by their husband, in which ultimately brings about irrevocable losses. Amy Tan incorporates mood, diction and imagery to address the damaging consequences women suffer in marriage when

In the novel Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, the author’s style is expressed using different components such as flashbacks, word choice, and talking in the perspective of different main characters. All of these components contribute to the author's main style which can be described as serious and emotional. The author includes many flashbacks of the different characters previous lives in the novel. This is seen in the first chapter, explained by Jing-Mei Woo (one of the main characters) when she is thinking about her mother, who used to be the “leader” of the Joy Luck Club, where it states “The week before she died, she called me, full of pride, full of life: ‘Auntie Lin cooked red bean soup for Joy Luck. I’m going to cook black sesame seed soup’.”

The story “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan explores the deep familial emotions between a mother and her daughter. Jing-Mei’s mother had left China to come to America after losing her family, and had been raising Jing-Mei in America with her second husband. Despite her mother’s grand hopes for Jing-Mei to become successful in America by becoming a child prodigy, Jing-Mei did not share the same opinions. This disagreement quickly became a source of resentment and anger for both of them, but Jing-Mei and her mother were unable to resolve this conflict because of their different backgrounds and experiences. The story showcases how relationships between mothers and daughters can be strained because of differences in culture and a lack of communication.

Tan’s narrative style involves giving the symbols and allusions in all her novels. She emphasizes the symbols such as food, dreams, orchids, silence, ink, fate and paintings to carry the weightage of the themes in all her novels. In case of The Joy Luck Club, the symbols and allusions are interwoven with food, dreams and Chinese language. Through these devices, Tan explores the layers of palimpsest that is her text, her narrative of the immigrant experience in America, her exploration of the bond between mother and daughter. A crucially important symbol in the novel is the Joy luck Club with its mah-jong table as a center piece that links past and present and codifies place and identity for club members. During the war years in Japanese-occupied

People may think that movies aren't as different as their book counterpart. While that may be true, there are many aspects between the book and the movie that aren't as similar. The book The Joy Luck Club written by Amy Tan share many similarities and differences with the movie by the same name. The book and the movie possess similar qualities; nevertheless there are many parts where the movie diverged from the book. However, although there are many differences, both movie and book place an emphasis on the same themes.

In this day and age, everyone, regardless of age, will admit to the feeling of being an “outsider”. In accordance with that, Orson Scott Card’s definition of an outsider relates to a person isolating themselves to a particular group or a person not within a boundary. Moreover, outcasts see situations more clearly and have a stronger sense in self. Personally I do not agree. Although physical separation can lead to being an outsider, the lack of self- confidence is the true cause of isolation.

Two Kinds by Amy Tan is the story everyone can relate to about being really close to your parents and wanting to do everything with them when your young and then growing up and not wanting to be around your parents at all. As a child Jing mei started off her life with her mother in America. As Jing mei was growing up, everyday her and her mother would try to find out what Jing bei was a prodigy at. Little did they know that all this time they were spending together trying to find this hidden talent would soon be the demise of their relationship.

In Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club, mother and daughter relationships are put to the test. Four women meet to play a game of Chinese mahjong, keeping a tradition alive. Suyuan Woo, founder of the club, had a daughter named Jing Mei June Woo. Suyuan had two daughters which she expected both to succeed to her standards. June, however, struggled to please her mother in all she did, and never felt as if she had any worth. Their relationship becomes distant due to miscommunications. Asian culture and expectations weigh heavily on Suyuan’s mind as she worries about the path her daughter takes, one that is untraditional and looked down upon. June finally understands her mother, after it is too late. Secrets and traditions can either tear apart or build up a relationship.

To show character change in The Joy Luck Club Tan uses values to stress the importance of winning and losing. The club is a night for the Aunties to come together, to play mah jong, for a night of happiness and pleasure. Although played as a gateway from negativities, there was a reoccurring obstruction causing discontent. Winning or losing in the game built the idea of survival whether it be a game or a real life situation. The Aunties believed in this “...view of the loser as a victim who fails to survive, and belief that one should make every effort to defend oneself against the bruising experience of being a loser” (Xu 10). The same people would win and lose because no luck is a match compared to skill. As a solution, the Aunties came to an agreement “‘Now we can all win and lose equally. We can have stock market luck. And we can play mah jong

The Novel “The Joy Luck Club” written by Amy Tan, is a story about how Chinese women were treated in China, and what lessons they learned about themselves and others. Due to the many cultural difference in China, these mothers have much experience with the way women were treated and have gained much wisdom as they grow older, and as the story goes the elderly mothers help their daughters with problems relating to marriage as they tell their stories and experiences that they went through in China both as a child and adult, so they can help their daughters make better decisions for themselves.

Have you ever asked yourself what dream we saw every day in our life. I would say that everybody have different dream what they want in their life. As a child, it is really difficult to understand our culture, family values and how a person is a way they are. However, every single person has a dream of reunite their family. Amy Tan 's story "A Pair of Tickets" is about a girl who is Chinese-American woman 's struggle to accept her culture and identity. She went china to complete her mother’s dream of reunite the family. As we read through the story, we will see the protagonist Jing-Mei grew up with American influences and struggles with her Chinese heritage. Throughout the story, we will see how she is

Amy Tan is one of the prominent Chinese American writers that have loomed since 1980s. Her first and enormously popular early work, The Joy Luck Club, published in 1989, brought her instant success. The novel illustrates the pitfalls of sentimentality in this dichotomy. Asia is portrayed as a tragic, ahistorical arena for the demonstration of women suffering, and America as the site of the Asian mothers’ redemption through their own modernization and their daughters’ assimilation.

“‘Only two kinds of daughters,’ she shouted in Chinese. ‘Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind! Only one kind of daughter can live in this house. Obedient daughter!’”(Tan 141-142). This quote expresses the tone of strict because the mom is telling Amy Tan that she can only live in the house if she is an obedient daughter. The quote, “‘Then I wish I weren’t your daughter, I wish you weren’t my mother,’ I shouted”(Tan 141-142) expresses the tone of hateful because the things Tan said as a child to her mother were just hateful to say. The relationship between this mother and daughter is a poor

As seen by the mothers’ and daughters’ behavior towards each other in The Joy Luck Club, it is difficult to preserve one’s culture when one is exposed to a new environment or country. With a difference of two distinct generations between them, the four main pairs often come across cultural collisions. Other than facing the age gap, these mothers and daughters also have to deal with a language and communication barrier. Already, at the beginning of the story, Jing-Mei Woo is able to understand how the mothers of the “Joy Luck Club” are displeased with their daughter’s rejection of their Chinese culture. She speaks to herself, admitting that “they are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America.

This book is consisted of short stories of 4 daughter and mothers. Each and every characters have different personalities and family history, mostly back in China, which is the main factor that contributes to the content’s richness. The character that leads the main story is ‘June’, the daughter of Suyuan. Her story first starts with the death of her mother, reminiscing the memories with her. She starts a long journey of finding her twin elder sisters, whom her mother had left behind when leaving China due to Japanese invasion. This is the exact motif the author has brought from her mother’s experience, leaving behind her 3 daughters after divorce and moving to United States. From this fact, I was able to imply that the author did have some kind of bond to her half-siblings, wishing to find them in the future. In the end, she was able to meet her twin sisters with the help from the other 3 mothers in the story. Another important character to look upon is Ying Ying, a lady who doesn’t usually smile and always seems gloomy. Her personality actually results from her past experience marrying to a rich family at a young age, which became a huge trauma for her. As this story is influential as well, Ying Ying’s life story is illustrated in detail in Amy Tan’s another novel, ‘The Moon Lady.’ In this critical response as a reader, I would like to discuss two main themes of this book and several important symbols that the writer used to imply the past, present and the future of each