The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan is a novel that's talk about the story fo four women has universal relevance. This novel is divided into four sections of four stories each, about four mothers and four daughters, carries symbloic weight. " The Joy Luck Club" flashes between the live of four Chinese-American women during their lives in pre-revolutionary China ad present day San Francisco, which is place where each finds herself confronted, at times, by difficulties with her daughter.
At the center of it all is daughter June, also name as Ming-Na Wen. Her mother Suyuan is recently deceased and, as a gift is her memory, Suyuan's three closest friends arrange to send June back to China to meet her tow half-sisters. This have give the flashback to the harsh days Suyuan and the three surviving friends endured separately in China.
The similiar satituation have happens to me when I went back to China for the first time of my Life. I live in the United States for many years, so I had more American thoughts than Chinese thoughts. When I first got there I said to myself "This is place where I born and the place where my mom and my dad had half of their life."
Lindo who's also know as Tsai Chin, was sold into marriage at the age of 15 and relied on her own wit to escape to America. The other two friends suffer through equally traumatic early life experiences, one watches as her mother gives up on herslef and commits suicide, the other is raped and, under the rigid Chinese mores, rejected by her own family.
I found that there's many dynamic contained within the novel, such as the places at the Mah Jong table are thrown out of balance by the death of Jing-Mei Woo's mother, and Jing-Mei must replace her mother at the table to restore the balance and support the dynamic center, which I think is the ritual of the game itself.
Ying-Ying was born into a rich family. She was very pretty when she was a young girl. She was educated like every Ch
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