In Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club the daughters are too young and naive to understand their mothers and the hardship they faced. But by the end on the novel the daughters are able to understand where their mothers came from through stories and experiences the mothers tell the daughters their background. This shows that the daughters overall understood the mothers better because through time they were able to experience some of the same conflicts giving them a better ... she constantly argues with her mother and refuses her traditional Chinese views and values, Waverly also seeks her approval. By...

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... what hatred their children are building for them because of so much pressure. The root of so much pressure is commonly set back to those of the parents' past. If the parent had not accomplished something in their childhood, they would try to enforce it on their children. In Amy Tan's novel "The Joy Luck Club", four mothers use such tactics to gain things they never could have: honor ... give her own flesh for her mother's well being. No matter how much her mother had despised her, she still had kept in depth with her values and morals taught by the same woman who hates her now. Such hon...

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• Grade Level: High School