Part one of term paper
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan is a story base on Chinese women in American tradition. One of the characters in the novel, Lindo Jong was born as a female in China. Lindo was undervalued because as a Chinese woman, she had an arranged marriage, she was treated unfairly by her husband, and also her own parents. Born as a female in China, many ...

Part two of term paper
... or opinion. "Decisions either made by your parents to the village matchmakers." (Tan 1989, p.43) By getting or the arranged marriage, it is a promise by your parents to the other family. Promises are very important in Chinese tradition. With every decisions made her life is already made for her. "Huang Taitai hurried me upstairs to the second floor and into the kitchen, which was a place where family children didn't usually go...I missed my family about stomach felt bad, knowing I had finall ...