Part one of term paper
The Joy luck club was a book written by Amy Tan. The story is set here in America and in China and is set in the 1940’s and also takes place now. The book is about four Asian women who fled china and their Americanized daughters. There are eight main characters four of which were mothers and four of which were daughters. They were Su ...

Part two of term paper
... place of her mother in the Joy Luck Club meetings after the death of her mother. In the meetings with the other mothers she reminisced about her mother and heard new stories about her mother she had never heard before. She hears stories of how it was her mother came to America and what she left behind in China. The book starts off in China with a woman imagining what life in America raising a daughter would be like. Hoping that she would be an American but still have her Chinese heritage. Bu ...