61 pages • 2 hours read
The Joy Luck Club
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989
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Essay Topics
1.
Why do the daughters call the other mothers in the Joy Luck “Auntie,” when they are not related? What is the significance of this to the story?
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Rose had thought that her mother was saying “fate” when she said one had to have “faith.” How did An-Mei’s ideas of fate and faith change over time? How did they stay the same?
3.
What were the motivations of the mothers in sending Jing-Mei to China?
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