The Joy Luck Club pg 1-23

Summary

The Joy Luck Club is separated into four sections. Feathers From A Thousand Miles Away, The Twenty-Six Malignant Gates, American Translation, and Queen Mother of The Western Skies. Each Section is telling a story of a Woman and her daughter. The book begins with the story of a woman who is on a boat headed for the United States. She buys a swan and that once was a duck. The woman dreams that one dy =, when she has a daughter, her daughter will speak perfect english and no one would look down on her. She had high expectations while going to America. When she arrived at he destination , however, America was not all that she hoped fr. She was being bombarded by a ocean of immigration paper she had to fill and the immigration officials took her swan away from her. The woman later married and had a daughter named Jing Mei. Years later, Suyuan dies, and her daughter Jing Mei is asked to replace her mother at the Mah Jong table. I learn that the other mothers , An-Mei Hsu, Lindo Jong, and Ying-ying St. Clair, were all close friends to Suyuan. They all sit down at the Mah Jong table and start to talk about...

Quote

" 'This Feather may look worthless, but it comes from afar and caries with it all my good intentions'. And she waited, year after year, for the day she could tell her daughter this in perfect American English".

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I found this quote quite sad after reading the next page which told me that Suyuan had died. I immediately felt sad that a woman who not only wanted to change her life but her daughter's life as well. She did change her life, but she never got the chance to speak in perfect American English which was sad.