Joy Luck Club Conflict Essay

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Analyze the Conflict Between any Three of These Pairs of Characters

In the book of the Joy Luck Club, written by Amy Tan. We can see there are many conflicts between mothers and daughters base on culture shock, generation, and misunderstanding, but we still can feel that there is finally rooted in deep love. The culture shock can build a great wall in their relationship due to different values. Also, generation can create a problem between parents and children. Children who born in different generation received different information and education, which will result in misunderstanding with their parents. In this article, I will give three examples to describes three conflicts between mothers and daughters, such as culture shock, different …show more content…

Rule of the game is a one of example of the culture shock. When Waverly Jong was seven, her brother received the chess set, and she was fascinated with the chess game. She put all the effort in this game, and she learned the key to win this game. After two years later, she became a international chess champion. Her mother was proud her her and told everyone the street. “ One day, after we left a shop I said under my breath, “I wish you wound’t do the, telling everybody I am your daughter. My mother stoped talking”(Rule of the Game, page 99). After this conflict, her mother and her never talks in two weeks. In the traditionally Chinese culture, parents is always pound of their children and show off their children in front of their relatives or friends. They think it is a way to encourage their kids. In the contract, the children who born in the Western culture feel shame at their parents action. Because they grow up in different culture, they cannot really understand their parents of views. We can tell that this can be a conflict between parents and daughter, and the basic reason is culture shock and different

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