Whenever I met a hard time in life, I would think "I had worse experiences." and this thought helped me climb over and out of that mountain. One of the events happened when I was about one year of age, another happened when I moved back to Korea from Hong Kong, and one of my misfortunes started since birth and probably will go on forever during my lifetime. ... He made up false reasons to take our property while dad was too sick to know what was going on. ... He would watch the students banging their heads, tell them to blame the kid who talked, and snicker during the whole time, enjoying th...

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Her eyes were filled with pain and weakness and her lips set straight and stern in a way I could not tell whether it was of anger or regret. ... When I had fully awakened I clime down to go take a shower while my little sister ran behind me asking so many different questions? ... Want to go play?... She vents to me because she has no one else she cries, yells, and tells me her dreams because she has no one else and no matter how painful it ever gets I have and will always lesion when she needs me. ... To this day I remember the flood of feelings I fealt flow threw me like a thundering water fl...

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The other escape, "the movies," as he would tell his mother, but in reality he was out drinking. ... "One Sunday afternoon in Blue Mountain - Your mother received - seventeen! ... Going to business school was even too much pressure for her to take. ... She didn't want anything from anyone, not to ever go anywhere in life. ...

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Now, while these are not the only semiotic guidelines but they are the ones I"m going to focus on for this paper. ... So, as a white American male I am going to deal with the realism in The Joy Luck Club. ... The use of the party before June goes to China is an excellent way to tie all the pieces together. ... Every shot that takes place in China begins with a long low woodwind sound and mountain shot, while the establishing shots in America jump right into the action. ... Maybe The Joy Luck Club had more embellishments that some thought necessary to tell the story, I felt it made an enterta...

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