"The Joy Luck Club"

Paper Summary:

This paper describes the story presented within the novel, "The Joy Luck Club," written by Amy Tan. It discusses the character of Jing Mei Woo and how she developed throughout the novel. It specifically focuses on her relationship with her dead mother and how this relationship affected many of the things that she did throughout her life.

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" At the end of the novel, Jing Mei comes to China and meets the twins that her mother thought were dead. Although they do not speak one another's language, the three can comprehend one another, across time and space, just as Jing Mei and her mother were eventually able to do before her mother died. Jing completes her mother's mission to save the twins and the girls feel "as if she [their mother] is among us" (331). Family feeling, love, and trust have overcome cultural and linguistic barriers. Now Jing knows why her mother was so desperate for her American daughter to succeed, and now she has succeeded in understanding her mother and finding the twins."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club. New York: Ballantine, 1989

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