Joy Luck Club

             The Joy Luck Club is a representation of the persistent tensions and
             powerful bonds between mother and daughter in a Chinese American society and is written by Amy Tan. The book illustrates the hardships both the mother and daughters go through in order to please the other. Also, it shows the troubles the daughters face when growing up in two cultures. This book reveals that most of the time mothers really do know best.
             Throughout all of the Jing-Mei Woo stories, June has to recall all of the
             memories of what her mother had told her. She remembers how her mother left
             her babies during the war. June's mother felt that since she had failed as a mother to her first babies she had failed as a person. When she made June take piano lessons June thought that she was trying to make her become a child prodigy like Waverly, but her mother did this because she knew it would benefit June for the rest of her life.
             Because of the death of her mother, June was forced to take the place of
             her mother in more than just filling her place at the Maj Jong table. The mother
             daughter tradition was broken because the lost babies were found after the death of their mother. June's trip to China can be seen as the completion of her
             mother's promise to return, honoring her sisters by attempting to transfer what she had absorbed from her mother and her tradition.
             "And I think, My mother is right. I am becoming Chinese"(Tan 306). This
             is what June thinks as she crosses into China. Like the Taoist Yin/Yang symbol,
             June and her mother have become two of the same thing. The only difference
             being their thoughts, June with American, her mother with Chinese. This has kept the mother-daughter tradition alive but has also weakened it. This happens often, but there is always something that sticks and is passed down from generation
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