Question

How to write an paper about the relationship between the daughters and monthers in the movie "The Joy Club"?

Answer 1

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(Answer) “The Joy Luck Club” is a 1989 novel by Amy Tan, which was adapted into a film of the same name in 1993. The film is about four of these Chinese American immigrant families who live in San Francesco and meet up to play a game of Mahjong. A group of mothers and daughters gather to play this game regularly to form the eponymous “Joy Luck Club.”

The first part of the book focuses on the point of view of the mothers and their relationships with their own mothers. This part focuses on how mothers worry about their daughters and how it affects these tiny details in their relationship. In the second half of the book, the daughters Waverly, Rose, Jing-mei and Lena, talk about their relationships with their mothers.

This is especially interesting because one is able to see the difference in mother-daughter relationships described in the first half and the second half of the book simply because the daughters were raised in America. The mothers talk about their mother in a very different way and share very different perspectives that are based on the cultural lens of a person brought up in China.

The mothers, on one hand, talk about a certain restraint in their relationships with their own mothers. On the other hand, the daughters talk about the problems with their marriages, careers and other issues. The daughters talk about how they are brought up differently and do not share the same archaic ideologies like their mothers.

The film and book, both explore how the relationship between a mother and daughter still manages to survive in its own special way despite clashes. The clash of ideologies, culture and upbringing, all tend to have an effect on the lives of the mothers, the daughters and the relationship they share with each other. In other words, the film explores how a relationship like a plant would make it through stormy weather.