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Joy Luck Club
Title: Joy Luck Club
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 1096 | Pages: 4.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Joy Luck Club
American Circumstances and Chinese characters
The Joy Luck Club is a book by Amy Tan containing vignettes of four Chinese mothers and their four American-born daughters. The four mothers are Suyuan Woo, An-mei Hsu, Lindo Jong, and Ying-ying St. Clair. Their daughters are June Woo, Rose Hsu, Waverly Jong and Lena St. Clair. The daughters are Americanized and they do not recognize their Chinese heritage. However, as time goes by, they revert back to their …showed first 75 words of 1096 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1096 total…marriage before it is too late. Rose uses the Chinese belief of without wood to give her strength to fight back with her husband and wins. The trip to China and seeing her Chinese sisters helps June recognize her Chinese heritage. No matter how these characters deny their Chinese identity, no matter how old-fashioned and ridiculous they think the culture is, still, it lives in them and benefits them for it is who they are.
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