Hope In Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club

Amy Tan’s “The Joy Luck Club” has a theme dealing with immigration. The article that I have chosen, “Chinese Illegals Pay Up to $30,000 to Enter U.S. Through Mexico”, can be connected to the book and myself in many ways.

In the Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, tells stories of four Chinese mothers and four Chinese-American daughters and their mother-daughter relationship. The four mothers met in a San Francisco church in 1949. Suyuan Woo, founder of the Joy Luck Club, convinced the other mothers An-Mei Hsu, Lindo Jong, and Yingying St. Clair to join the club. The club would meet every week at one of the mother’s house where they eat food, play mahjong, and brag about their daughters. The Chinese-American daughters tell their own personal story which includes Jing-mei Woo, Rose Hsu Jordan, Waverly Jong, and Lena St. Clair. The novel is narrated in third-person omniscient point of view.

“A true relationship is two imperfect people refusing to give up on each other” - Unknown. Relationships are never perfect, there are always a few bumps down the road. This goes for any relationship between boyfriend, girlfriend, brother, sister, husband, wife, etc. Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club brings to light the imperfections of family dynamics. This imperfect relationship focuses on the struggles between mothers and daughters. The broken relationships invite readers to question their own relationships, but also see how they relate to the relationships of The Joy Luck Club. Tan uses animate and inanimate objects to express the love and hate in one’s relationship, even if it’s through wobbly furniture, a jade pendant, or a

In this passage from “Waiting between the Trees” from The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan illustrates how mothers sometimes lose the ability to keep their child safe due to lack of communication. As shown in the passage, the mother struggles to communicate her emotions and feelings to her daughter due to the chasm between them, meanwhile illustrating the repetition of regret of miscommunication.

First, the Joy Luck Club mothers attempt to teach their daughters the importance of taking action. They refuse to let their daughters sit and accept the cards life has dealt them, especially when it comes to the more unfortunate draws. This unwavering perseverance is substantially seen in the mothers of Lena St. Clair and Rose Hsu, when Ying Ying questions, “‘Then why you don't stop it?’”(181), and when An Mei asks,“‘Why do you not speak up for yourself?’. . .’Why can you not talk to your husband?’”(216). Although they ask such simple questions, their words are strong enough to knock some much-needed sense into their daughters and

Joy Luck Club, written by Amy Tan, tells the story about the conflicts between Chinese immigrant mothers, and their American-raised daughters. This novel is taken place from the 1910’s to the 1980’s in San Francisco, and different locations in China, such as: Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou. The protagonists of this book are the mothers: Suyuan Woo, An-mei Hsu, Lindo Jong, Ying-ying St. Clair, and their daughters: Jing-mei “June” Woo, Rose Hsu Jordan, Waverly Jong, and Lena St. Clair. Suyuan Woo founded the Joy Luck Club in China as a way for women to come together and celebrate life during the Japanese attacks. This club acts a safe haven for the women who immigrated to America to start new lives, and escape their suppressive pasts. Club

Amy Tan's novel The Joy Luck Club is a story of a monthly mah-jong gathering whose members consists of four Chinese mothers with American-born daughters. The novel is narrated by the four mothers and their daughters. At these meetings, the mothers share their concern of the growing rift between their daughters and Chinese customs. Each mother shares her story of her life in China and each daughter tells her story about her life in America. In The Joy Luck Club, the consistent conflict is formulated from the cultural and ideological clash between the mothers and daughters. Tensions arise out of the struggle to adapt to the American way of life when old customs are expected to be honored.

Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club is an intriguing book. The Joy Luck Club is an extraordinary fictional book. Amy Tan has an individual association with the moms and girls in this story. The characters in this story depend on some actual occasions from Amy Tan's family history. Rarely, will one ever discover a story that emerges as much as Amy Tan's. In a couple of ways, people can identify with the stories in this the same amount of as Amy Tan does. One might experience considerable difficulties to the arrangement of the book for the reason that it tends to ricochet forward and backward into various stories between the mothers and daughters, nonetheless, as it were, it keeps the story crisp in a way where one will not become exhausted. The way

Amy Tan’s touching novel The Joy Luck follows four mothers/daughters pairings. Each pair had a momentous experience from childhood that had an impact on them in their adulthood. The impact is shown by the way Suyuan Woo, Lindo Jong, Ying-ying St. Clair, and An-mei Hsu, who left their country for their own respective reasons raise their daughters. The Joy Luck is centered around their American-born daughters Jing-mei “June” Woo, Waverly Jong, Lena St. Clair, and Rose Hsu Jordan. The problems each daughter is faced with stem from the complicated relationship they have with their mothers. In The Joy Luck, Tan illustrates how the lack of communication can put a strain on a relationship. Unresolved conflict has an effect on not only the relationship but alter the way you see or interact with that individual or others. Parental relationships aren’t immune to encountering this conflict, Tan uses the mother-daughter dynamic as a theme to illustrate the power of communication through Jing-mei Woo her mother, Suyuan Woo. The theme of lack of communication is used to show and teach a moral lesson; in order to mend a relationship you must be willing to communicate and stop holding grudges because life is short.

Amy Tan’s Joy Luck Club was a sensational read. Not only was it entertaining it also taught a significant lesson in what storytelling has to do with memory and inheritance. Usually most books set in the 40’s have a boring slow paced theme. This novel was completely different it was based on the bond between mothers and daughters, and how they could unravel the mystery surrounding their mothers is to understand who they, themselves, really are.

   The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan, illustrates what life is like for many foreigners in America who are trying to give their child the opportunities they most likely did not have themselves as children.  The story touches on a very common struggle in America, that between mother and daughter, in which the daughter never feels good enough for her mother.  Also present is the struggle Jing-Mei has with herself.

The Joy Luck Club was author Amy Tan’s initial big hit; it has been translated to seventeen dialects along with holding its place as a New-York-Times bestseller for a reigning nine months. The story sees the lives of four newly immigrated Chinese-American mothers and their first-generation daughters. Tan gives a riveting tale as the four individual households interact and discover personal secrets, further growing in their mother-daughter relationships.

The Joy Luck Club is mainly focused on four Chinese-American daughters. Going from importance of their lives, there is Jing-Mei Woo, An-Mei Hsu, Waverly Jong and Lena St. Clair. Amy Tan’s novel, The Joy Luck Club varies with characterization. Each character is portrayed in different yet similar ways such as all of them being around the same age, being daughters, and going through similar life

Amy Tan, within her famous novel, The Joy Luck Club, describes the fictional story of four Chinese women, who each persevere through their own hardships by making both sentimental and materialistic sacrifices. All of these characters have committed controversial acts and have demonstrated their ability to survive and adapt to the Chinese social standards laid out for their gender. Although a number of these behaviors and decisions are generally frowned upon, the four should be given substantial respect, as they each loyally follow their obligations and carry out any task necessary for their aspirations to attain fulfillment. For instance, Lindo Jong, the mother described in “The Red Candle,” relinquishes a life of joy and excitement to fulfill a promise to her family as she says, “I once sacrificed my life to keep my parents’ promise.” (49) Despite being subjected to merciless treatment that even drives her to consider suicide, Jong does not abandon her vow and states, “...I started to think about how I would escape this marriage without breaking my promise to my family.” (63) Of course, this determination and ambition towards one purpose is not limited to only Linda Jong, but is resonant within the other three women, especially Suyuan Woo, who even goes as far as giving up on her hope and children to find a new, prosperous life. During the chapter, “The Joy Luck Club,” Woo talks about walking a path that was filled with belongings of people who could not afford to be

America for immigrants is a land where everybody can become somebody. In Two Kinds, from an excerpt the novel, The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan, Jing-mei’s mother believed that her daughter could become anyone that she wanted. Jing-mei only wanted to become herself. Jing-mei’s mother forced Jing-mei to become a prodigy. At first Jing-mei was excited to become a prodigy, however, as time went on Jing-mei started to hate trying to become a prodigy. It never stopped her mother from trying to make Jing-mei into a prodigy.Jing-mei’s perspective of her own cultural identity, her role as daughter, and how she sees American life was different from her mother because they were born into two different cultures.