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. ... Most importantly, she notes, "In America, nobody says you have to keep the circu...

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• Grade Level: High School

English 305 Asian-American Film The Joy Luck Club A Semiotic Critique The Joy Luck Club as an exercise in semiotic critique. ... So, as a white American male I am going to deal with the realism in The Joy Luck Club. ... Conclusion I realize I have focused mainly on the good points of The Joy Luck Club. ... Maybe The Joy Luck Club had more embellishments that some thought necessary to tell the story, I felt it made an entertaining, compelling journey. The Joy Luck Club is aimed at women. ...

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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. ... Most importantly, she notes that "In America, nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you." ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Suyuan invites all the couples from the Joy Luck Club and their children. ... The families of the Joy Luck Club do not say anything about Jing-Mei's performance, and she assumes that she will be done with the piano after the talent-show disaster. ... The notes come back to her, and she plays it. ...

• Word Count: 1269
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School