Joy Luck Club: Nationality "Hey, Sabrina, are you Japanese or Chinese?" ... In Amy Tan's enjoyable novel, The Joy Luck Club, about the relationships and experiences of four Chinese mothers and four Chinese-American daughters, I found out the answer to this question. ... From the beginning of the novel, you hear Suyuan Woo tell the story of "The Joy Luck Club," a group started by some Chinese women during World War II, where "we feasted, we laughed, we played games, lost and won, we told the best stories. ... Most importantly, she notes that "In America, nobody says you have to kee...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Joy Luck Club "Hey, Sabrina, are you Japanese or Chinese?" ... In Amy Tan's enjoyable novel, The Joy Luck Club, about the relationships and experiences of four Chinese mothers and four Chinese-American daughters, I found out the answer to this question. ... From the beginning of the novel, you hear Suyuan Woo tell the story of "The Joy Luck Club," a group started by some Chinese women during World War II, where "we feasted, we laughed, we played games, lost and won, we told the best stories. ... Most importantly, she notes, "In America, nobody says you have to keep the circu...

• Word Count: 728
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

English 305 Asian-American Film The Joy Luck Club A Semiotic Critique The Joy Luck Club as an exercise in semiotic critique. ... So, as a white American male I am going to deal with the realism in The Joy Luck Club. ... Conclusion I realize I have focused mainly on the good points of The Joy Luck Club. ... Maybe The Joy Luck Club had more embellishments that some thought necessary to tell the story, I felt it made an entertaining, compelling journey. The Joy Luck Club is aimed at women. ...

• Word Count: 1560
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• Grade Level: High School

The Joy Luck Club In The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan explores the different mother-daughter relationships between the characters, and even at a lower level, the relationships between friends, lovers, and even enemies. ... Suyuan started the Joy Luck Club which was a group of Chinese women who came together to share their friendship and to play games. ... When Suyuan dies, her daughter, Jing-Mei takes her place in the Joy Luck Club. ... She tells the Joy Luck Club of her mother's past, from being a fourth wife to severing part of her own flesh and putting it in a "soup" that she created to h...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Joy Luck Club When asking a person of a different minority what is or her background is, what should their reply be? ... In Amy Tan's enjoyable novel, The Joy Luck Club, about the relationships and experiences of four Chinese mothers and four Chinese-American daughters, I found out the answer to this question. ... From the beginning of the novel, you hear Suyuan Woo tell the story of "The Joy Luck Club," a group started by some Chinese women during World War II, where "we feasted, we laughed, we played games, lost and won, w...

• Word Count: 1223
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• Grade Level: High School

From the beginning of the novel, you hear Suyuan Woo tell the story of "The Joy Luck Club," a group started by some Chinese women during World War II, where "we feasted, we laughed, we played games, lost and won, we told the best stories. ... That hope was our only joy." (p. 12) Really, this was their only joy. ... Most importantly, she notes that "In America, nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you." ...

• Word Count: 444
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• Grade Level: High School

The Joy Luck ClubHome is not exactly a place but it is an understanding of the beliefs of the mothers in the novel and the different but not wrong beliefs of their daughters.The first relationship that will be discussed is the relationship between An-mei Hsu and her brief relationship with her mother in China. ... After bragging to her friends about Junes amazing ability, only to be slapped in the face when Jing-mei really only cared about her curtsy and not about the right notes to be played. ...

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Suyuan invites all the couples from the Joy Luck Club and their children. ... The families of the Joy Luck Club do not say anything about Jing-Mei's performance, and she assumes that she will be done with the piano after the talent-show disaster. ... The notes come back to her, and she plays it. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Imagine knowing each beat, each quarter note, each word without ever hearing a sound (Griver). ... There are people out there that were meant to dance, as luck would have it, they ended up deaf, but they were still meant to dance. ... Word of the club spread, and the group began to be asked to perform--- both on and off campus (Hottendorf). ... Dance training became something Heather did out of sheer joy. ...

• Word Count: 1126
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

I also think that her individual in the joy luck club was a factor and the success her friend "Aunt Lindoe" was having with her child. ... Chong could not hear her play the piano so how could he know if she was playing the notes right. ...

• Word Count: 1263
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• Grade Level: High School