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The theme of the novel, The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan, is the different perspectives of culture in two generations. Tan supports her argument by describing the trials and hardships each of the womenfaced, and how they overcame their problems through the strength of their family, and love. The imperfect cultural understanding of the mothers and the daughters is the result of their lackingknowledge of language. The barriers that exist between the mothers and the daughters are often due to their failure to communicate with one another. Although the daughters know some Chinese words and themothers speak some English, communication often becomes a matter of translation. The daughters think that their mothers are dull because they don’t know English while the mothers are impatient with theirdaughters because they do not know how to speak their native language and do not have the intension to pass down their Chinese customs to their children.
Additionally to the difference in languagebetween two generations Amy Tan illustrates the different thoughts of honoring their elders. An example that Tan gives from her novel is “My mother took her flesh and put it in the soup. She cookedmagic in the ancient tradition to try to cure her mother this one last time… this is how a daughter honors her mother. It is shou…” (Tan 41). This quote shows how that the mothers generation will doanything, even sacrifice themselves, in a desperate last attempt to save their mother. Another case from the novel is “I once sacrificed my life to keep my parents’ promise…His gold is like yours, it isonly fourteen carats. To Chinese people, fourteen carats isn’t real gold.” (Tan 42). This excerpt from the novel depicts that the mother kept her promise to her parents even though it was difficultwhile her daughter does it the American way, she promises but is never true to her word, she is fake like fourteen carats. As a result this shows that these two generations have totally different...
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