Joy Luck Club: Nationality
Beginning of paper
"Hey, Sabrina, are you Japanese or Chinese?" I asked. Her reply, as it
seems to be for a lot of minority groups, is, "Neither, I'm Chinese-
American." So, besides her American accent and a hyphenated ending on her
answer to the SAT questionnaire about her ethnic background, what's the
difference? ....
Middle of paper
.... hope to be lucky. That hope was our
only joy." (p. 12) Really, this was their only joy. The mothers grew up
during perilous times in China. They all were taught "to desire nothing,
to swallow other people's misery, to eat [their] own bitterness." (p. 241)
Though not many of them grew up terribly poor, they all had a certain
respect for their elders, and for life itself. These Chinese mothers were
all taught to be honorable, to the point of sacrificing their own lives to
keep any family ....
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Word count: 690
Page count: 3 (approximately 250 words per page)
