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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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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In her palm was a ring of watery blue sapphire, a gift from her mother, who had died many years before. ... That quote proves that she can take on the responsibility. ... June learned from her mother that she had difficulty staying focused. The following quote supports this idea: "The elements were from my mother's own version of organic chemistry. ... The following quoted supports this idea: "And then I saw what seemed to be the prodigy side of me-because I had never seen that face before. ...

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There are people out there that were meant to dance, as luck would have it, they ended up deaf, but they were still meant to dance. ... Word of the club spread, and the group began to be asked to perform--- both on and off campus (Hottendorf). ... Which brings me to change the question from "How can deaf dance?" ... Dance training became something Heather did out of sheer joy. ... Martha Graham is quoted saying "Dance is the hidden language of the soul." ...

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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. ... "So I was discouraged from writing and embarrassed- (Hillard). ... When Ed comes home from the office and refers t...

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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. ... "So I was discouraged from writing and embarrassed" (Hillard). ... When Ed comes home from the office and re...

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œcc As the quote indicates, are the themes depicted in Nella Larsen-s "Quicksand- still prevailing. ... Helga Crane moves continuously throughout the story, her restlessness brings her from Naxos to Harlem, from there to Copenhagen and back again to Harlem, until she finally ends up in the rural South of Alabama. ... ""(51) African women living around the world dress in the most colourful fabrics, just as Helga's loyalty to the inherent racial need for gorgeousness told her- to do. (51) Larsen said everything with letting the narrator announce that "these people yapped loudly of...

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• Grade Level: High School