The Joy Luck Club
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan is a novel that's talk about the story fo four women has universal relevance. This novel is divided into four sections of four stories each, about four mothers and four daughters, carries symbloic weight. " The Joy Luck Club" flashes between the live of four Chinese-American women during their lives in pre-revolutionary China ad present day San Francisco, which is place where each finds herself confronted, at times, by difficulties with her daughter. At the center of it all is daughter June, also name as Ming-Na Wen. Her mother Suyuan is recently deceased and, as a gift is her memory, Suyuan's three closest friends arrange to send June back to China to meet her tow half-sisters. This have give the flashback to the harsh days Suyuan and the three surviving friends endured separately in China. The similiar satituation have happens to me when I went back to China for the first time of my Life. I live in the United States for many years, so I had more American thoughts than Chinese thoughts. When I first got there I said to myself "This is place where I born and the place w
for all her life, Ying-Ying lived on a normal level with St. Clair. Her husband. Lena inherited this attitude from her mother. In their St. Clair family, they never had real communication . They only tried to be good to each other. And that's it. The daughter and her father never knew who Ying-Ying really was. And what past she carried to America with her. Of course Lena choose the American ways, by not realizing that her Chinese family education and tradition are really important to her happiness as well. Anyway the relationship between Ying-Ying and St. Clair was being responsibility for her own fate, and not to rely on someone else, and not to live in the shadow of anybody. Which I personally think that it's good. Lindo who's also know as Tsai Chin, was sold into marriage at the age of 15 and relied on her own wit to escape to America. The other two friends suffer through equally traumatic early life experiences, one watches as her mother gives up on herslef and commits suicide, the other is raped and, under the rigid Chinese mores, rejected by her own family.
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Approximate Word count = 747
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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