Joy

Happiness is subjective. Every person has a different set of things that bring joy to people’s lives. There are obvious correlations that are common. Many find happiness from their loved ones, food, money, and passions. There are some people who aren’t made truly happy by any of these things mentioned. The chemical release of dopamine in the brain can be triggered by nearly anything depending on the person. The question then becomes, what brings people the ecstasy of living? Walt Whitman is a well renowned poet to this day. In his poem, Poem of Joys, he mentions different examples of people and what brings those people joy. Whitman suggests that joy is found in different forms of weather such as rain drops or sunshine. He explains that…

Crazy Brave is a memoir written by Native American poet and artist Joy Harjo. In this memoir Harjo recollects and evaluates a number of pivotal moments, which occur during her life, that altered her identity as well as how she saw the world around her. Many of these moments occur in the first two sections of the book entitled “East” and “West”. These moments include, but are not limited to, when she is playing with bees and is stung as a young girl, when her mother forces her to put on a…

The Joy Luck Club is a movie that was directed by Wayne Wang and the story written/based off by the book The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. This movie was created and came out on September 8, 1993. This movie is directed towards any audience that is viewing the movie and the reason for that is because the purpose of the movie that the author and writer want to show the audience is how the Chinese culture can change from one generation to another and also how strict and different the culture was…

2nd Quarter Project In the book, “The Joy Luck Club,” there are many conflicts that impact the story, which includes cultural collision between Chinese and Chinese-American cultures. Jing-mei’s mother, Suyuan, travailed from a path full of adversities. Suyuan represents the Chinese culture while Jing-mei represents the Chinese-American. Throughout the book, Jing-mei comes to realize how a war devastated and greatly impacted her life from a story told by Suyuan. The struggles that both Suyuan and…

The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan is a story about four Chinese mothers and their daughters who have a hard time distinguishing between their Chinese and American culture and following their family traditions. The Joy Luck Club was a group that Suyuan Woo, the mother of Jing-Mei, chose to create in order to give Chinese women who were forced into the America’s a place to come where there would be no negative thoughts or sad stories. It was all fun and laughter around the Mahjong table. When Suyuan…

In Amy Tan's book “The Joy Luck Club” mothers and daughters are very different but the same in many ways. All of the mothers were born in China and the daughters born in American. Lindo Jong and Waverly Jong are mother and daugher that are both Chinese and American. Lindo Jong was a strong, smart women. Her parents forced her into a horrible marriage. Lindo was treated as if she was a slave by her new mother-in-law. She had high self esteem and knew she could not be changed. After that she…

In the book, The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, a Chinese-American writer, there are various themes of significance. Such themes include Chinese vs. American traditions, Mother-daughter relationships, bad childhoods, bad marriages, child marriages, hope and women's rights. I am aware that each of these themes has their own importance, however, I believe that the theme of child marriage is most important. I intend to use the Ted-Ed talk of A warrior’s cry against child marriage by Memory Banda and Why…

Standards in Their New Lives In the novel The Joy Luck Club written by Amy Tan, four families of Chinese immigrants gather around a mahjong table. Jing-Mei Woo is to replace her mother’s seat at the table. After Jing-Mei’s mother passes away, it is her responsibility to take over the seat. Jealousy fills the group when comparing their daughter's abilities. Beauty is important to all of the daughters and their mothers. Superstition factors into their everyday lives controlling their…

In the novel, The Joy Luck Club, there are many different cultural aspects. Throughout the book, there are many obstacles the characters may face. In addition, there are also parts of the book that show higher emphasis on Chinese cultural values and perspectives. Containing sixteen stories all relating back to each other, the main plot of the novel begins when a daughter named Jing-mei sets out on a journey to find her long lost twin sisters. Jing-Mei’s older twin sisters were lost due to their…

In her article "Feng Shui, astrology, and the five elements : Traditional Chinese belief in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club" Patricia L. Hamilton comments on the usage of language, Chinese culture, Chinese beliefs, and the important moments within Amy Tan's "The Joy Luck Club". The article helps connect smaller details into bigger ideas that could have possibly been missed. In the writing Hamilton connects the involvement with metal in Lindo's story The Red Candle with the birth of her daughter…