The Joy Luck Club - Culture Di
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The Joy Luck Club, a novel by Amy Tan, is a compilation from eight different women and their lives. The stories are based on their Chinese culture and their mother/daughter relationships. In the novel and in the film production, the women go through many obstacles in life and must overcome them i ....
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.... towards whatever hobby they are involved in, and give it up in spite of their mothers.
The daughters in the novel are American, this adding to their inability to relate to some of their mother's Chinese beliefs and customs. The neglect to acknowledge the experiences of their mothers shows the problematic communication between daughter and mother. This lack of communication stemming from the continual suppressing of emotions demonstrated by all of the women; their inabilty to express thei ....
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