Part one of term paper
The Joy Luck Club, a novel by Amy Tan, is a compilation from eight different women and their lives. The stories are based on their Chinese culture and their mother/daughter relationships. In the novel and in the film production, the women go through many obstacles in life and must overcome them in order to survive. In the end, these women ...

Part two of term paper
... when it came to their own mother's expectations. There is an immense emphasis on honor, obedience and loyalty. Another emphasis is competition, the mothers using their daughter's acheivements to decipher who is a better mother. The daughters soon become exasperated with their mothers' aggressiveness towards whatever hobby they are involved in, and give it up in spite of their mothers. The daughters in the novel are American, this adding to their inability to relate to some of their mot ...