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oy Luck Club- mother-daughter relationships. Joy Luck Club – Mother Daughter
In the novel, The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan. There ...
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Joy Luck Club – Mother Daughter
In the novel, The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan. There is an
introductory passage called “The Twenty-Six Malignant Gates”. This
passage tells of a mother who warns her seven-year-old daughter not to
ride her bicycle around the corner. When the daughter asks why she can’t
ride her bike around the corner. The mother answers saying that she will
fall over, cry out and no one will be able to hear her. This is all written in a book called The Twenty-Six Malignant Gates, says the mother. The daughter insists on seeing the book, but her mother says that it would be useless because the book is written in Chinese. The daughter then acts in defiance; she storms out of the house, jumps on her bicycle, and falls down before she even reaches the corner. This passage is filled with important symbols and themes, which reflect the main ideas throughout the entire story. Throughout the book, we can see the daughters want to live their lives without their mothers’ constant interference. Therefore the bike ride, symbolizes all the daughters trying to separate from their mother. In addition, the book symbolizes the unwritten knowledge and wisdom that all the mothers wish to pass on to their daughters, in the passage the girl can’t read the book because it is written in Chinese. Another symbol is the gate is something that keeps things out and keeps things in, it basically separates two things from each other. Similarly, in the book, the mothers want to teach their daughters the Chinese traditional way of life, but the daughters cannot learn because they have been too Americanized. Also in the passage some important themes are stressed, these themes are communication and wisdom of parents. Throughout the book, the mothers are unable to communicate with their daughters due to differences in age, language, and culture all these can be classified as different kinds of “gates”. As a result, of this...
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