... American accent and a hyphenated ending on her answer to the SAT questionnaire about her ethnic background, what is the difference? 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. The difference in upbringing of those women born during the first quarter of this century in China, and their ... of California, is a difference that does not exactly take a scientist to see. From the beginning of the novel, you hear Suyuan Woo tell the story of "The Joy...

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... glimpse into Chinese culture and heritage including festivals, marriage ceremonies, food dishes, clothing, and raising children. We are also introduced to the social rules and expectations for the traditional Chinese woman. However, what is most moving about The Joy Luck Club is that in spite of this upbringing, each woman or girl has a true nature and spirit that enables her to find unique ... these Chinese women have throughout the book are shared by women universally. The experiences shared by these Chinese families are common familial ones. We learn of Chinese customs and can readil...

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... American accent and a hyphenated ending on her answer to the SAT questionnaire about her ethnic background, what's the difference? 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. The difference in upbringing of those women born during the first quarter of this century in China, and their daughters ... of California, is a difference that doesn't exactly take a scientist to see. From the beginning of the novel, you hear Suyuan Woo tell the story of...

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• Grade Level: High School

... it, besides an accent, what is the difference? 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. The difference in upbringing of those women born during the first quarter of this century in China, and their daughters born in the American atmosphere of California, is a difference ... that causes emotions and conflicts to arise. From the beginning of the novel, you hear Suyuan Woo tell the story of "The Joy Luck Club," a group started by some ... Ch...

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... 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. And each week, we could hope to be lucky. That hope was our only joy." (p. 12) Really, this was their only joy. The ... mothers grew up during perilous times in China. They all were taught "to desire nothing, to swallow other people's misery, to eat [their] own bitterness." (p. 241) Though not many of them grew up terribly poor, they all had a certain respect for their elders, and for life itself. These Chines...

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... different thesis's in The Joy Luck Club. The Joy Luck Club has a great deal of thesis, more then most books because of it's multi-perspective form and because of the fragmented and discontinuous text and possibilities of connection across segments. Before I talk too much about my thesis, I will provide the reader with a brief summary of what The Joy Luck Club is about. The Joy Luck Club revolves around four families, primarily the relationships between the mothers and the daughters. Each of ... the four mothers are new to America, and thus are 1st generation Chinese-Americans. These fou...

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... with a past". Tan's novels share many themes and elements, but this paper will focus mainly on two episodes of the novel The Joy Luck Club: "The Joy Luck Club" and "Waiting Between the Trees"; and will make references to The Kitchen's God Wife and The Hundred Secret Senses. In the first place, mother-daughter relations between Chinese mothers and ABC daughters are not easy ones in Tan's novels. They are ... they seem like complete strangers. When immigrants raise their children in America, there is a great concern for these parents that American culture will negatively affect their chi...

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