In the novel, The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan, four Chinese women are drawn together in San Francisco to play mah jong, and tell stories of the past. ... This however is not the case when comparing Amy Tan's novel The Joy Luck Club alongside Wayne Wang's film adaptation. ... Yet, the need for entertainment does not threaten Tan's already entertaining and captivating Joy Luck Club. ... The setting of The Joy Luck Club was set in various locations. ... In comparing both the book and the film of The Joy Luck Club, I can't say that I enjoyed one over the other. ...

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This however is not the case when comparing Amy Tan's novel The Joy Luck Club alongside Wayne Wang's film adaptation. ... Yet, the need for entertainment does not threaten Tan's already entertaining and captivating Joy Luck Club. ... Conversely, in the film she expresses approval of her daughter's marriage by asking: "How could I not like your Rich-(The Joy Luck Club)? ... The setting of The Joy Luck Club was set in various locations. ... In comparing both the book and the film of The Joy Luck Club, I can't say that I enjoyed one over the other. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Joy Luck Club The Joy Luck Club is a story about four Chinese friends and their daughters. ... June sat at the East where it all starts "The Joy Luck Club". The Joy Luck club was a weekly meeting of the best friends, were they talked about their hopes for their daughters and there stories of the past. ... In the movie The Joy Luck Club, Aunt Lindo is sold to a family when she is only four years old: when she goes to the family, she is fifteen. ... This is illustrated in The Joy Luck Club when Waverly, Lindo's Daughter, is an extremely talented chess player and her ...

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Joy Luck Club: Nationality "Hey, Sabrina, are you Japanese or Chinese?" ... In Amy Tan's enjoyable novel, The Joy Luck Club, about the relationships and experiences of four Chinese mothers and four Chinese-American daughters, I found out the answer to this question. ... From the beginning of the novel, you hear Suyuan Woo tell the story of "The Joy Luck Club," a group started by some Chinese women during World War II, where "we feasted, we laughed, we played games, lost and won, we told the best stories. ... That hope was our only joy." ... By the stories and information given by e...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Joy Luck Club "Hey, Sabrina, are you Japanese or Chinese?" ... In Amy Tan's enjoyable novel, The Joy Luck Club, about the relationships and experiences of four Chinese mothers and four Chinese-American daughters, I found out the answer to this question. ... From the beginning of the novel, you hear Suyuan Woo tell the story of "The Joy Luck Club," a group started by some Chinese women during World War II, where "we feasted, we laughed, we played games, lost and won, we told the best stories. ... That hope was our only joy." ... By the stories and information given by each in...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Joy Luck Club - Film Response Critical Film review Based upon Amy Tan's 1989 Best Seller The Joy Luck Club tells the tale of the experiences of four mothers and their daughters. Their life stories, past experiences and memories are shared with the audience when each of their memories are stirred at a sendoff party for June (played by Ming-Na Wen) The joy luck club was formed when June's mother after migrating to America met with 3 other mothers with similar experiences. They grew close and formed the "Joy Luck Club", a club where the mothers share their stories and experie...

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The Joy Luck Club The Joy Luck Club is a very moving movie about four mothers and four daughters and how they relive many of the same occurrences and hardships throughout life, only in different times and settings. ... The mothers did not want their daughters to experience going "without," love, hope, joy, and to always have good luck and fortune, all while knowing whom they are. I really enjoyed this movie because it helped me learn more about Chinese customs and traditions and gave me insight into some of the hardships many Chinese women had to experience such as arranged marriages and...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Joy Luck Club When asking a person of a different minority what is or her background is, what should their reply be? ... In Amy Tan's enjoyable novel, The Joy Luck Club, about the relationships and experiences of four Chinese mothers and four Chinese-American daughters, I found out the answer to this question. ... From the beginning of the novel, you hear Suyuan Woo tell the story of "The Joy Luck Club," a group started by some Chinese women during World War II, where "we feasted, we laughed, we played games, lost and won, w...

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• Grade Level: High School

Joy Luck Club is a movie of four mothers and four daughters, and their struggles of life. ... They reunited at the end of the movie. ... The last section of the movie is about Ying-ying St. ... Culture is another concept displayed in the movie. ... This is a great movie. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The Joy Luck Club is a story about four Chinese friends and their daughters. ... June sat at the East where it all starts "The Joy Luck Club-. The Joy Luck club was a weekly meeting of the best friends, were they talked about their hopes for their daughters and their stories of the past. ... June takes on her mother's spirit as she sits down at the East in the Joy Luck Club. ... Another symbol in the Joy Luck Club happens between Ying- Ying and Lena. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Oy luck Book Vs Movie Rough Draft In the novel, The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan, it tells of four Chinese women drawn together in San Francisco to play mah jong, and tell stories of the past. ... The first member of the Joy Luck Club to die was Suyuan Woo. ... The movie brought this concept out very vividly. ... The movie tells the story a little different in reference to her baby. ... A tragic and emotional part in the movie. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

From the beginning of the novel, you hear Suyuan Woo tell the story of "The Joy Luck Club," a group started by some Chinese women during World War II, where "we feasted, we laughed, we played games, lost and won, we told the best stories. ... That hope was our only joy." (p. 12) Really, this was their only joy. ... Instead of their daughters, who "can promise to come to dinner, but if she wants to watch a favorite movie on TV, she no longer has a promise" (p. 42), "To Chinese people, fourteen carats isn't real gold . . . ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The relationship between a mother and a daughter is full of complex values and feelings this is evident in the novel The 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. ... From the beginning of the novel, we hear Suyuan Woo tell the story of "The Joy Luck Club," a group started by some Chinese women during World War II. ... That hope was our only joy-. ... By the stories and information given by each individual in The Joy Luck Club, it is clear to me jus...

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• Grade Level: High School

Despite these wishes, the movie The Joy Luck Club, originally a novel written by Amy Tan raises the questions of oppression and power in the lives of four mothers and their daughters. ... At the same time, the movie depicts the social issue of the oppression of women and power of men, a long history in China and as racial minorities in America. ... All mothers in the movie faces multiple oppression and power struggles, for being a female, for being the mother, for being a racial minority in America. ... Hence, I benefited from hybrid identity as the daughters in the movie are facing. From a...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Born in Oakland, CA 1952, author Amy Tan wrote her very first novel "The Joy Luck Club-, which went on to become a critical success and a best seller. 3. ... They would later movie to the United States and bore one daughter, Jing-Mei. ... Auntie Lindo, Auntie Ying, Auntie An-Mei, and Suyuan were all members of The Joy Luck Club. ... The Meis were Muslim and believed that twin babies were a sign of double luck. ... Simply, though, there are tones of sadness, tragedy, anger, hope, luck, excitement, and destiny. 10. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

To occupy some of her time when she was a young woman, Pauline would frequently go to the movie she began to accept the Hollywood idealized representation of absolute beauty. ... In the novel, The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan wrote about four Chinese mothers who grew up in China during China's war with Japan and their daughters, who grew up in America. ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

So, like the good student I am, I promptly moved on to an easier assignment - a movie assignment. ... While working on that show, she sold several sketches that she had written to the revue club, The Upstairs at the Downstairs. ... Flagg had another stroke of luck when an actress on Candid Camera got the flu. ... She shows that same joy of living in all her fictional characters also. ... , she said, "The movie was a huge hit - it scared the hell out of me" (ReadersOnly.com). ...

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• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

So, like the good student I am, I promptly moved on to an easier assignment - a movie assignment. ... While working on that show, she sold several sketches that she had written to the revue club, The Upstairs at the Downstairs. ... Flagg had another stroke of luck when an actress on Candid Camera got the flu. ... She shows that same joy of living in all her fictional characters also. ... , she said, "The movie was a huge hit - it scared the hell out of me- (ReadersOnly.com). ...

• Word Count: 2519
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School