Amy Tan’s Use of Prologues to Bridge the Gap Between Chinese and American Culture Cultural divides are difficult to overcome in storytelling because understanding another culture is a not an easy task. However‚ in The Joy Luck Club‚ Amy Tan does a wonderful job of making the Chinese culture comprehensible to American readers. With a culture that is exceedingly different from the American way of life‚ Tan presents both cultures side by side in order to draw attention to their differences. One way
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We all want to be remembered‚ to leave some kind of legacy‚ something that we are known for. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan shows how Chinese immigrants‚ Suyuan Woo‚ An-mei Hsu‚ Lindo Jong‚ and Ying Ying St. Clair try to leave their legacy with their American assimilated daughters. Whether that be through stories about their lives in China or lessons that they learned‚ they hope they can connect with the new generation. One of the major themes embedded in this novel is that of identity. The mothers
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GIRL POWER IN JOY LUCK CLUB AND A TASTE OF HONEY Kitchen sink realism (or kitchen sink drama) is a term coined to describe a British cultural movement that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in theatre‚ art‚ novels‚ film and television plays‚ whose ’heroes ’ usually could be described as angry young men. It used a style of social realism‚ which often depicted the domestic situations of working-class Britons living in rented accommodation and spending their off-hours drinking in grimy pubs
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Raymond Chandler‚ a 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
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Thoughtful Laughter Amy Tan uses thoughtful laughter in her novel‚ The Joy Luck Club‚ to make a point through laughter or humor. Thoughtful laughter is effective because it grabs the attention of the reader and expresses a point‚ whether the reader knows it or not. One scene that provokes thoughtful laughter is in the chapter “Best Quality” while the family picks crabs to eat. When there was only two crabs left‚ Jing-Mei Woo tries to choose the crab with the missing leg‚ so her mom would have the
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The Struggles Faced in The Color Purple and The Joy Luck Club A common bond of struggle links the novels The Color Purple by Alice Walker and The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. Rape‚ suicide‚ death‚ war‚ oppression‚ and racism invade the two novels. In The Color Purple‚ Celie overcomes racism‚ violence‚ and other issues to find dignity and love. In the Joy Luck Club‚ the daughters struggle for acceptance‚ love‚ and happiness. Though the characters endure many hardships they survive not only by not becoming
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In "Double Face" of The Joy Luck Club‚ Lindo Jong recounts her journey coming into America as she sits in Waverly’s hairstylist‚ Mr. Rory’s‚ chair‚ preparing for Waverly’s second wedding. The symbolism surrounding Waverly and her mother’s conversation through the salon mirror subtly imply an underlying theme of a lack of communication. Waverly and her mother seem to be talking in different worlds as both daughter mother struggle to understand each other’s culture. For example‚ Lindo tells Waverly
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A Boundary of a mother and 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
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The initial disappointment could start with the deceptive title - if your expectations bordered at oriental food-fetish erotica. Then‚ perhaps doubled if you had braced yourself for an Amy Tan experience (Ref: Joy Luck Club‚ etc). I take this opportunity to warn you against both expectations‚ but do give this book a chance if your unrefined literary tastes embark on occasional flirtations with lab rats - it appears to be an (experimental?) acquired taste. Our protagonist Ruby Lee finds herself
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Culture and tradition is passed down to remember your beginnings.In the novel The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan she introduces cross cultural differences in the life of Jing mei Woo the daughter of Suyan Woo. Jing mei woo the narrator of the story who is the bridge between the relationships in the novel has a difficult time finding herself in the world because she does not understand who she is because of language barriers and cultural barrier within her life and of her mother. This leads to her regretting
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