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    a huge part in The Good Earth and The Joy Luck Club that can be compared and contrasted. Both books are set in China‚ but in different time periods. The culture in China has always had a direct effect on the social conducts within the Chinese people. However‚ over time these are bound to change. A person’s daily life is always affected by the surrounding culture of where they live. Sometimes‚ the culture can be brought or passed on to one. In The Joy Luck Club‚ as the families live in the United States

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    person than what he’s internally. As the lyrics read “...I hate this car that I’m driving there’s no hiding for me I’m forced to deal with what I feel there is no distraction to mask what is real I could pull the steering wheel…” (Pilots). Not only does this epitomize a feeling of depression‚ but it also shows that this car radio‚ symbolically speaking‚ is the only thing that kept his sane from releasing these thoughts he is projecting. “My skin will scream reminding me of who I killed inside my dream”

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    Throughout the novel‚ “Joy Luck Club” by there is a cultural misunderstanding language between the mothers and daughters identities in the novel. It is hard for the daughters to reconcile their Chinese heritage with their American surroundings. Most of the daughters spent their childhood trying to escape their Chinese identities‚ and their mothers tried helping them find them. The mothers give direction to their daughter’s lives to find their identity. Even though the daughters are confused on their

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    Chinese and American Cultures In the Joy Luck Club American and Chinese cultural differences are brought to perspective in Amy Tan’s novel‚ The Joy Luck Club. The book follows the lives of eight women‚ 4 American born daughters and 4 Chinese immigrant mothers as their lives intertwine with each other in America. As the daughters clash with the mothers‚ they are faced to embrace the American culture‚ to comply with their mothers and accept the mothers deep Chinese cultural heritage or

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    divided into four sections‚ the first and last are told by the three mothers and Jing - Mei Woo who’s in charge of telling her mother’s story after her recent death‚ and then the second and third sections are told by the four daughters (including Jing - Mei Woo). Each of the mothers have two episodes in the book‚ same as the daughters‚ with the exception of Jing - Mei who has four. The title of the book comes from a small club founded by the mothers in San Francisco at their arrival to America; it is basically

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    footsteps. This pressure will oftentimes have a negative effect for the children of those parents. In the chapter of Amy Tan’s Joy Luck Club‚ “Two Kinds‚” the reader is introduced to Jing-mei‚ a young Chinese girl who wishes to become the prodigy that her mother wishes her to be. However‚ her constant disappointment in the many challenges her mother presents her causes her to lose hope and motivation. While‚ H.G. Bissinger’s Friday Night Lights chapter “Dreaming of Heroes‚” the reader meets Don Billingsley

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    people back in time‚ to their youth or to a lost love. The game also connected people‚ it connected strangers‚ or brought families closer together. Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club portrays the effects of immigration on the family relationship. Tan depicts the lives of these women‚ and the struggles between them when forming bonds. Through her vignettes‚ Tan weaves together a tapestry of stories‚ showing the vast differences of the mothers and their daughters‚

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    fiction writer‚ once said‚ "The most durable thing in writing is style." True‚ the style is often defined as one of the most important elements in writing. In Amy Tan’s novel‚ "The Joy Luck Club"‚ the style significantly contributes to the development of both the tone and the theme of the influences that a mother can have on her daughter. The author effectively portrays the somber tone and the theme by using a concise style of diction‚ images‚ details‚ language‚ sentence structure‚ point of view‚ and organization

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    daughter relationship The film “The Joy Luck Club” based on the book “The Joy Luck Club” by Amy Tan. It depicts a story of a group of aged Chinese women in San Francisco who are fun of playing mahjong while sharing stories of their lives. The movie unveils sixteen different stories of how these Chinese immigrants and their American-Chinese daughter faces cultural conflict. The film shows the sufferings that these Chinese women encounter back in China and how they cope up with a brand-new environment

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    chapters in The Joy Luck Club. It is the most predominant theme in the book. Some mother-daughter relationships‚ like the one found in the article by Psychology Today‚ represent how Rose Hsu Jordan was feeling when she married Ted despite her mother’s objections. Rose then needed her mother to help her to realize that because she chose not to make her own decisions‚ Rose would end up ruining the rest of her life. This situation is like the situation Holly Williamson was in when she fled from her home at

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