Movie Notes: Joy Luck Club
by
Omar
·
05/01/2019
- The idea of mastering English will make you (immigrant) immune to discrimination
- Family relations don’t have to be blood
- “you American girls,” said by the first generation
- So much pressure on children only to be “used” as playing pieces in the battle of who is better and honor
- ambiguity in storytelling
- Lindo
- Using Superstitions to her advantage to get out of the messed up arranged marriage
- Waverly (Lindos Daughter)
- Chess champion
- Molded by her mom to be who she wants her to be
- american values adopted at early ages VS Chinese first generation ideals of purpose ie. speaking up, talking back, being disobedient since Lindo would never do such a thing.
- Married a white man: When the white man breaks the unspoken rules of traditional cultural nuances that are not easily attained by people who are not from Chinese culture in this case, disrespect will always happen intentionally if the white person or person who is not native from the culture isn’t sensitive enough.
- Lindos Story of sacrifice and perseverance is used to guilt trip her daughter, almost emotional manipulation, but not really cause they understand each other and the Lindo sees her.
- Ying Ying
- Married a player young/ and was dropped with the full responsibility of taking care of her child
- Murdered her child for payback?
- She escapes
- Lena (Ying Ying’s Daughter)
- Given the responsibly to take care of her mom due to the trauma that she possessed from the murdering of her child
- Children of color look for their parent’s validation because usually, they hold so much power over them
- 1st gen –> 1.5 Gen –> Second Gen and so on
- The power dies out as generations age
- Mothers (1st gen) don’t want history to repeat itself so by controlling every aspect of their child’s life they can make sure that the same mistakes they made when young, are not repeated.
- An Mei
- Mom left her when she was a child, but then came back while her grandmother was dying,
- Was a wife to a mab of multiple concubines
- The first male child is stolen by the second wife in exchange for acceptance into being a concubine
- Rose (An Mei Daughter)
- She married an extremely rich white man
- Culture clash when her husband was cussing out his mom
- An Meis mom sacrifices for her translated to An Meis Rose.
- “The Chinese Way”
- Storytelling is one of the most powerful ways cultural exchanged because it is first person view, richer details, feels more human.
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