Plunging The Joy Luck Club by Amt Tan

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The Joy Luck Club (1985) was written by Amy Tan (1952). The Joy Luck Club is the story of a Chinese mother who leaves everything behind, a mother who leaves her family in China in order to get her children (in this case our protagonist June) a better life. Or as Amy Tan says: “The Joy Luck Club, about a woman whose mother has just died and who regrets that she never knew who she truly was. The stories poured out. They were what I felt and had to say before it was too late. I had found my reason to write.” (http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/nov/19/amy-tan-joy-luck-club-guardian-book-club)
The Joy Luck Club is the story of a Chinese mother who leaves everything behind but it is also the story of a Chinese-American woman who realises in a way or in another what his mother has sacrificed for her. When we read this novel one of the things we can observe is that strong relationship between mothers and daughters. That relationship starts when the daughter is in the mother’s womb. They are connected through the umbilical cord. They share something during their whole lives. Chinese mothers, on the one way, they are very submissive to their husbands and they never challenge to what their husbands tell them. On the other way, we have Chinese-American daughters. They are more independent, they have the option of divorce if they are not happy with their husbands. They think that they have the right to express their opinion and they can not to be if they do not want to. They think they have the right to choose. We can see this on Queen Mother of the Western Skies She looks in the mirror and sees reflections of her. She realises that she is part of one whole spirit that extends into past and future generations. No matter if they are born in ...

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...hey have done it for their daughters to have a better life, for them to find the freedom that they (the mothers) could not have in China.

In conclusion, The Joy Luck Club is a story of sacrifice, of leaving things behind. It is a story of not to look behind. It is a story of changing your life and those lives of who are at your side. The Joy Luck Club is the story of those mothers who had the courage of changing their quiet lives in China, although submissive to their husbands and their country for their daughters to be free of choosing their own fates. Maybe this I am going to say could seem a little bit exaggerated, but it is the story of picking Coca-Cola, it is the story of being them own. It is the story of choosing love over marriage. It is the story of choosing to be themselves no matter what the society could think about them. That is The Joy Luck Club.

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