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Joy Kogawa's "Obasan", 2003.
A critique of Joy Kogawa's use of the diary/journal form in her work "Obasan".
2,454 words (approx. 9.8 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 74.95
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This paper shows how Kogawa uses a finely balanced set of techniques in the journal/diary form to write "Obasan". The writer is a big fan of the writer and her writing style and points out a number of reasons why she used these techniques to deliver the dramatic effect. The paper includes a few comparisons to other diary-style literary pieces including "The Diary of Adrian Mole" and others.
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"Perhaps the most obvious structural aspect of Kogawa?s use of the journal/diary form in Obasan is her manipulation of time. In a method similar to that employed by Michael Ondaatje in The English Patient, Kogawa tells the story from the point of view of a tortured adult in the present viewing defining moments in his or her past through vivid flashbacks. In contrast to Ondaatje, Kogawa?s flashbacks extend right through to early childhood and are expressed both innocently (from the child?s point of view) as well as analytically (from the adult Naomi?s point of view)."
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"The Joy Luck Club", 2002.
A review of the "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan.
3,210 words (approx. 12.8 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 92.95
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This paper provides a biography of the novelist Amy Tan born on February 19, 1952, in Oakland, California, to Chinese parents. It examines how her novel, "The Joy Luck Club", is, in many ways, a biography of Tan?s life. It discusses how like the main character, Tan did not learn that she had half-sisters from her mother?s previous marriage until she was older. It evaluates many other parallels between her life and the book such as how she describes her pain from her father and brother?s deaths, through Suyuan Woo?s loss of her twin daughters and her death. It also shows how like the main character of ?The Joy Luck Club?, Tan resented her mother when she was younger for being so controlling.
Outline
Introduction
A Biography
The Joy Luck Club
Generation Gaps in the Joy Luck Club
Cultural Differences
Chinese American Life
Conclusion
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"One of the major themes in Tan?s ? The Joy Luck Club? is a constant quest for identity. Tan?s eight main characters all face the challenge of defining themselves while they are undergoing some sort of personal conflict. Lindo Jong?s early marriage into an unreceptive family caused her to become a stronger woman and made her vow to never forget her roots. Ying-ying St. Clair became a sort of ?ghost? as the result of betrayal and loss in her life. Rose Hsu Jordan repeatedly tried to get her self-confidence back to standup to husband. June Woo narrates much of the story, telling of her quest to China, which was orchestrated by her Joy Luck Club aunties. June tries to understand her mother's tragic past, while realizing her own personal and ethnic identity. "
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"Surprised by Joy", 2008.
An analysis of the function of memory in William Wordsworth's sonnet "Surprised by Joy".
1,259 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 42.95
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This paper examines the sonnet "Surprised by Joy," in which William Wordsworth writes about his painful feelings about the death of his daughter Catherine. Specifically, the paper discusses how, in his other poems, Wordsworth uses his memory to return to an emotional status he enjoys but, in 'Surprised by Joy", memory draws him back to the painful emotional space where he does not want to go. Memory cannot bring his daughter Catherine back to him, and his own inspiration which he usually derives from a joyful memory, cannot protect him from all the pain caused by the loss of his daughter.
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"In "Surprised by joy," the physical space is absent. Wordsworth became very hopeless and lonely when he wanted to share his joy with his dead daughter, because the memory could not bring him back to the original place where the story happened. In "Tintern Abbey," he returned back to the ruin and experienced the same scenery again. Even in "I wandered lonely as a cloud", although he revived the scene of the dancing daffodils when he was sitting "in the coach" (305, Line 19), there was still a place to go, and he could easily see those beautiful daffodils again if he wanted to. "
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"The Joy Luck Club", 2005.
An analysis of the mother-daughter relationships in "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan.
1,391 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 46.95
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This paper examines how "The Joy Luck Club," a novel by Amy Tan, explores the complex, multifaceted relationships between four sets of Chinese-American mothers and daughters. The novel centers on the members of the "Joy Luck Club" and their monthly mahjong games. It looks at how Tan's method of writing and storytelling untangles the messy knot of the relationships, showing readers the differences that divide the characters from one another.
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"The first character readers meet is Jing-mei Woo, daughter of Suyuan Woo. Jing-mei, or, by her American name June, begins telling the story of her mother and how she traveled to America so many years ago. The recent death of Jing-mei's mother has caused Jing-mei to reevaluate her life and wonder about what her mother had wanted in her own life. Jing-mei is haunted by a story Suyuan told Jing-mei once, about her life in China and how she came to America. The story told by Suyuan, is the first example of the cultural differences faced by the generations of mothers and daughters."
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?The Joy Luck Club? by Amy Tan, 2002.
This paper analyzes Amy Tan's "The Joy Luck Club" as it sets its narrative against the backdrop of the key historical events of the middle of the 20th century.
1,526 words (approx. 6.1 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 50.95
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This paper examines the ways in which the mother-child relationship is negotiated and continually reconstructed in "The Joy Luck Club" and the endlessly complex ways in which mothers and daughters love each other and can so easily destroy each other. All of this takes place in the context of families of Chinese-Americans in California.
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"When political barriers began to fall in the 1970's, older emigrants welcomed the chance to end their long and agonizing exiles. But their children looked with a deep ambivalence on the idea of having to awaken a dormant Chinese side in themselves. And so, as the exterior world went about recognizing China, re-establishing diplomatic relations and initiating trade and cultural exchanges, these young Chinese-Americans found themselves wrestling with a very different and infinitely more complicated interior problem: how to recognize a country to which they were inextricably bound by heritage, but to which they had never been. For Tan?s daughters, this meant coming to terms with themselves as independent of their mothers and yet inextricably a part of the same heritage."
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'The Joy Luck Club', 2008.
This paper studies the novel 'The Joy Luck Club' by Amy Tan.
1,450 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 48.95
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In this article, the writer notes that Amy Tan's novel 'The Joy Luck Club' says much about the conflicts experienced by Chinese immigrants to the United States. The writer discusses that the novel focuses on differences between American and Chinese culture, with some of the differences revealed through generational differences within the Chinese-American community in San Francisco. The writer points out that, to a great extent, this novel may be seen as the author's story and the story of her mother. The writer maintains that Tan is herself a member of the culture she describes in the novel, and the time period of that novel covers the history of a certain immigrant experience in this century as Chinese fleeing the terrors of the Revolution came to the United States seeking peace and a better life. The writer concludes that, as can be seen in this novel, they never lose their ties to their homeland and may gather together in order to preserve that culture to the degree possible and to celebrate it just as the four women do as they play mah jong and talk each week.
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"In fact, the stories the mothers tell can be seen as object lessons for their daughters, stories that not only gain the older women the respect of the younger but that also gain that respect from every reader. The stories the mothers tell are about loss, courage, and survival, all qualities that each of the younger women needs, and indeed each qualities that everyone needs to face the vicissitudes of life.
"The stories of the four women offer dramatic contrasts for the more staid and "normal" lives of their daughters. An mei Hsu was forced to watch her mother live as a concubine until the mother reaches the point where suicide is her only way out, a way out the child sees take place. Lindo Jong ran away from a suffocating marriage, and she emigrated to the United States by pretending to be a theology student. Suyuan Woo, the narrator's mother, escapes the Japanese invasion of Kweilin with two babies on her back. Ying ying St. Clair finds herself abandoned by a rich husband and goes to live with poor relatives for ten years; she meets an Anglo American visiting China and settles with him in California, in some ways the easiest journey to these shores of the four, and in other ways one of the most difficult because of the need to adjust to a different level of racism and cultural shock."
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Amy Tan's "The Joy Luck Club", 2005.
This paper discusses the use of two forms of vision--mirrors and storytelling--in Amy Tan's "The Joy Luck Club" in relationship to the mother-daughter legacy.
1,390 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 46.95
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This paper explains that, in Amy Tan's "The Joy Luck Club", the mothers use the oral tradition of story-telling to cement, ameliorate or transform the trauma of their past lives in China to their daughters as a method for rewriting these stories of oppression and victimization into parables of self-affirmation and individual empowerment. The author points out that the motif of the mirror is a form of vision used often by Tan to allow the mothers and daughter to communicate. The paper concludes that this novel clearly demonstrates the usage of storytelling and mirrors as effective tools in creating bonds between mothers and daughter of each generation, which is self-perpetuating, even if unintentional.
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"In another story involving a mirror, mother is shocked to see that her married daughter has placed a mirrored armoire at the foot of the bed. This is bad feng shui. In feng shui, the Eastern art of placement, harmony must be created in an environment and any bad angles must be "cured". Sleeping with a mirror at the foot of your bed is said to frighten your essence and create bad energy. She is certain that the mirror will deflect all happiness from her daughter's marriage, so she "cures" the situation by giving her daughter a mirror to hang above the bed. This will reverse the bad luck and bring good "peach-blossom luck," the mother says. Such luck, she adds, will ensure a grandchild."
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"The Joy Luck Club", 2002.
Analyzes the generational conflicts portrayed in the novel "The Joy Luck Club".
1,900 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 8 sources, $ 71.95
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This paper analyzes the novel "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan focusing on some of the major conflicts that were experienced by the characters of the novel. The conflicts are more or less based on the two different generations of parents and their children i.e. the grandparents, parents and finally the children.
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"The Joy Luck Club", 2002.
Comparison and contrast of two stories from the book "The Joy Luck Club".
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 26.95
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This paper compares and contrast two stories from the book "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan. The two stories discussed below are "Double face" and "A Pair of Ticket" and will be supported by quotations and explanations.
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"The Joy Luck Club", 2002.
A critical review of the film "The Joy Luck Club".
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 2 sources, $ 35.95
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A review of the thematic progress of the story in the film the "The Joy Luck Club".
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Joy & Sorrow, 2002.
A review of William Blake's poems 'Infant Joy' and 'Infant Sorrow' with emphasis on historical perspective.
1,681 words (approx. 6.7 pages), 7 sources, MLA, $ 54.95
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This paper compares and contrasts two poems from William Blake's "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience" collections: 'Infant Joy' and 'Infant Sorrow'. In one poem a child is nourished and loved and in the other the child is leaping into a ?dangerous world?. It discusses the differences in style, language and poetic pattern between the two poems and compares their themes to events known to have occurred in Blake's lifetime.
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"An interesting concept is that in the poems there is a reference to the part of Songs they are printed in. In ?Infant Joy? the narrator sings to the child, a song of innocence, in ?Infant Sorrow? the mother groaned and the father wept, a song of experience. Even though some might deny that groaning or weeping are songs, they could be viewed in such a way, they are songs of realism, songs of pain, songs of experience. Thus even within these poems there is a referring to the part they are printed in, Songs of Innocence or Songs of Experience."
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?The Joy Luck Club?, 2004.
An analysis of the novel, ?The Joy Luck Club?, by Amy Tan and the subsequent film version.
1,462 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 48.95
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This paper reviews the novel, ?The Joy Luck Club? by Amy Tan, the story of four Chinese women in San Francisco who come together to play mah-jong and invest in stocks. It looks at how the story in the novel is not linear, since it involves memory, recollections, and anecdotes told by the women who meet each week and how one generation speaks to another and is able to do so across the gulf that usually separates the generations. It also discusses how the film version is a fair and expressive representation of the novel that makes changes in narrative flow in order to match the different methods of filmmaking.
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"The theme of the novel is clearly indicated in the opening passage as the old woman remembers a swan she bought in Shanghai and remembers her arrival in America, which was not as liberating as she had hoped: "And then she had to fill out so many forms she forgot why she had come and what she had left behind" (Tan 17). This was in the past, and now the woman faces her memories and the reality of her daughter and seeks to bring the two into juxtaposition and understanding. Now that she is old, she thinks about her daughter "who grew up speaking only English and swallowing more Coca-Cola than sorrow" (Tan 17)."
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"The Joy Luck Club", 2007.
A discussion of Amy Tan's "The Joy Luck Club".
1,560 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 51.95
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This paper discusses the main theme of "The Joy Luck Club", the quest for identity. It explains how the discovery of one's identity may be achieved by exploring the mother and daughter characters in her work. The paper also expands on Tan's unique writing style. The author of the paper offers quotes from the text to quantify points made.
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"In the short story, "The Joy Luck Club," we see the mothers change from being passive and meek to confident and strong women. Through remembering, they understand the difference that exists between who they are and who they thought they should be. Xu's example of Suyuan Woo illustrates this point when she forms the joy luck club. Suyuan is firm when it comes to making the best life for herself. Through this type of determination and memory, she copes the best way she can. For instance, she says, "What was worse, we asked among ourselves, to sit and wait for our own deaths with somber faces? Or to choose our own happiness?" (Tan 12). This scene allows us to see that she is taking what she knows from the past and applying it to her present situation to make a decision that will improve her life."
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"The Joys of Motherhood", 2008.
An analysis of the plot and characters in "The Joys of Motherhood," written by Buchi Emecheta.
1,027 words (approx. 4.1 pages), 0 sources, $ 36.95
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This paper discusses the novel, "The Joys of Motherhood," written by Buchi Emecheta. The paper discusses the central development of the main character, Nnu Ego and how the books shows the role of women within African society, particularly from a perspective of that role being severely limited and oppressive. The paper suggests that Emecheta's novel is one of the most influential books on native African society and their way of life.
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"A further analysis of Emecheta's novel could be painted in the picture of modernity. Much like Kafka's Metamorphisis, Nnu's character can be seen as an abject symbol of modernity. Much like Gregor Samsa, who spent the majority of his life working like an insect rather than appreciating his family and his life, Nnu lived within the restrictions of her society without making the attempt to break free from her societal restrictions. As a result, both of these characters are symbols and warnings of the results of the modern world. They both were limited by the social constraints placed on them on a societal level and as a result they both became victims of society. Both of them suffered from a complex of modernity they attempted to solve their problems by attempting to work within a broken system, as a result they inevitably hit the walls of being socially and political restricted on many different levels."
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"The Joy Luck Club", 2002.
An analysis of Amy Tan's famous novel "The Joy Luck Club".
1,858 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 59.95
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This paper focuses on the mother-daughter narratives in "The Joy Luck Club". It focuses in particular on the mothers? side of the narratives. It shows how Tan successfully subverts stereotypes about Chinese and Asian women to reveal a fierce inner strength.
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"The Joy Luck Club is a rich lyrical novel that weaves 16 stories and seven viewpoints into a narrative tapestry. This review focuses on the effectiveness of Tan?s multiple viewpoint narrative technique and on her subversions of the submissive Chinese woman stereotype.
One unusual feature of The Joy Luck Club is Tan?s explicit inclusion of the mother?s perspective. Even as the daughters tell their stories, the voices of the mothers shine through. For literary critic Marina Heung, Tan?s depictions of matrilineage include her in the growing canon of writing that addresses the intersections of race, class and gender. This canon includes works by several important women of color, such as Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston (Heung)."
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