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    Churchill English 2 Honors, Period 0 6 September 2015 Reconciliation Swan feathers. Hopes and dreams. Broken relationships and healing. Though these concepts might initially appear incongruous, they are all depicted in the book The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan and The Joy Luck Club film directed by Wayne Wang. Both modes of interpretation show how the mothers help their daughters solve their problems by explaining the formers’ pasts. However, while the book leaves each of the daughters’ stories open ended

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    values and cultures that individuals are exposed to throughout their lives, carve them into who they are destined to be. They teach consistency and order over time and allow individuals to see the world through a different lens. In the novel The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan, the author uses the importance of heritage, articulated through her deliberate language and word choice, to present the idea that values are formed through customs and could be tied to a hopeful future. This is shown in the relationships

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    Final exam essay In The Joy Luck Club there are many contrasts and comparisons of chinese and american cultures. The author, Amy Tan, references chinese culture and compares it to american culture at many instances throughout the film. Amy Tan, being of chinese descent, had to adapt to an American lifestyle and the cultural values that come with it. With this said, she incorporates much of this in her novel. Amy Tan conveys culture differences in The Joy Luck Club by using the plot, characters, and

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    daughters is something that stays with you forever. It is shown throughout the many different stories of the Joy Luck Club that mothers and their daughters fight quite often. The daughters always at the end still love their mothers, and nothing will be able to change that. After fighting with the daughters they see how much theirs mothers have sacrificed for the them. Next Amy Tan, in The Joy Luck Club, uses tone in many ways throughout her story. The tone relates to how the author writes the story. Tone

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    Jennifer Boretzky English 239 Response Paper #4 12/4/15 The Joy Luck Club The Joy Luck Club is a novel by Amy Tan, that is made up of stories that describes the struggles of Chinese immigrant mothers with their American-raised daughters. Throughout the novel, different types of conflicts arise such as marital, internal, cultural and many more between the mothers and their daughters. The four families that are presented in the novel are the Woo family, the Jong family, Hsu family, and the St. Clair

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    up together. Towards the end of the novel, a gathered opinion can be made on the three characters true to all the viewpoints. The Joy Luck Club is a movie, based off a novel written by Amy Tan, displaying the struggles of a group of Chinese women and their daughters. The women grew like a family when they moved from China to San Francisco. The woman in the joy luck club all experienced rape, domestic violence or being abandoned by their family early in adulthood. Christina, Ida and Suyuan all live

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    matter if your ancestors were born here or took a long ride to get here, everyone has a important and meaningful story to share. The Joy Luck Club is a compilation of stories from four pairs of mothers and daughters. The reader is shown the complexity of relationships spanning from China all the way to America plus the difficulty of being in between. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan manages to convey extremely well the struggles and successes of mothers and daughters in two different worlds. The book

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    A recurring theme in The Joy Luck Club is the power of storytelling. Throughout the book, stories are used as a way to socialize, teach lessons and warn about dangers. The article “The Psychological Power of Storytelling” by Pamela B. Rutledge explains how stories are a form of communication. Rutledge says, “Stories have always been a primal form of communication.” From cavemen drawing pictures of stories on walls, to bedtime stories being read to children, sharing experiences through stories

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    ​“The Joy Luck Club” by Amy tan is a novel that contains sixteen stories of chinese immigrant mothers and their American-born daughters. Each of the mothers came to America to escape hardships in their restricted native country, hoping that their daughters would live less tragic lives in the land of opportunity. Although the novel spins tales of these immigrant’s lives and experiences, it hones in on Jing-mei and her trip to China to find her half-twin sisters. Each mother of the Joy Luck Club has

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    Different races, ages, and cultures determine the way people interrupt concepts. In The Joy Luck Club, written by Amy Tan, shows the cultures an interpretations of the mothers and daughters. Asian mothers and Asian-American daughters understand and see themes and concepts in distinct ways. Asian mothers and Asian-American daughters were raised in different cultures to diverse families with distinct ideas. When the mothers try to make their daughters understand some cultural concept, it is either

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