Summary Of Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club
“The Joy Luck Club” was written by Amy Tan, an important novel that shows the love and hardship mothers from a chinese culture bring. The book had all started in 1949, where four chinese immigrants had recently moved to San Francisco because of a war, where the joy luck club had all begun. Three main points in the story would have to be how important mothers should be to families, that winning is not everything, and also that one can never judge people’s experiences in life if one did not live it with them. The point of the joy luck club is to serve a purpose that mostly everyone should understand and know in life. Think about the thought of one day waking up and realizing that a particular mother is no longer by their daughters side anymore
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Me, the younger sister who was suppose to be the essence of the others. I feed myself with the old grief, wondering how disappointed my mother must have been” (Tan, #281). Which stated that June had never knew or thought what was going on in her mother’s heart and mind. It is really important to keep in mind what people go through in life to keep their own family happy and safe. Especially when fighting over certain situations that you do not quite agree whether it comes down to winning or losing. Winning in life is not everything, people just need to be happy. Waverly Jong, Lindo Jong’s daughter, becomes a chess champion not because her mother pushes her to be but because she had loved to play (Tan, #96-97). The self-esteem her mother gives out when they are shopping is that she shows her off because she is proud of Waverly’s success. “Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don’t you learn to play chess” (Tan, #99). Waverly loses her happiness playing because to her all it seemed about to her mother was winning but she obviously did not care she liked playing whether she won or lost. Nobody really understand the fun Waverly had while playing chess, since all her mother has done was to show her off as a champion and not realizing her daughter gets embarrassed. She then no longer has an interest in playing anymore. Her mother just wanted to finally be proud of something her daughter has accomplished in life since
Me, the younger sister who was suppose to be the essence of the others. I feed myself with the old grief, wondering how disappointed my mother must have been” (Tan, #281). Which stated that June had never knew or thought what was going on in her mother’s heart and mind. It is really important to keep in mind what people go through in life to keep their own family happy and safe. Especially when fighting over certain situations that you do not quite agree whether it comes down to winning or losing. Winning in life is not everything, people just need to be happy. Waverly Jong, Lindo Jong’s daughter, becomes a chess champion not because her mother pushes her to be but because she had loved to play (Tan, #96-97). The self-esteem her mother gives out when they are shopping is that she shows her off because she is proud of Waverly’s success. “Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don’t you learn to play chess” (Tan, #99). Waverly loses her happiness playing because to her all it seemed about to her mother was winning but she obviously did not care she liked playing whether she won or lost. Nobody really understand the fun Waverly had while playing chess, since all her mother has done was to show her off as a champion and not realizing her daughter gets embarrassed. She then no longer has an interest in playing anymore. Her mother just wanted to finally be proud of something her daughter has accomplished in life since