Symbols & Motifs
An-Mei
Jing-Mei Woo
Themes
Family Relations & Stories
100
This is the symbol for hope or expecting the unexpected
What is the swan
100
This is why An-mei hid from the picture of her father
What is she didnt want him to see her shame
100
This is why Jin-mei went to play mah jong with the joy luck club
What is she needed to fill the place of her mother
100
This is the main theme in chapter 1
What is Love and loss
100
This is the one of Jing-mei's three "aunties" names, that she played mah jong with in chapter 1
What is An-mei, Ying-ying, Lin
200
This is a motif that implies food can heal
What is soup
200
This is how An-mei receive the scar under her chin
What is the spilt soup
200
This is the name of Jing-mei Woo's mother
What is Suyuan
200
This is one of the two main themes for chapter 2
What is Identity or Expectation versus reality
200
This is the city Jing-mei's family lives in, in The United States
What is San Fransisco
300
This can represent both suffering and peeling of the layers of your family to find yourelf
What is An Mei's scar
300
This is what An-mei saw her mother do to Popo right before Popo died
What is cut a chunck of meat off Popo's arm and put it in a soup and then fed it to Popo
300
This is in the envelope that the older women gave to Jing-mei at the mah jong table
What is a check for $1,200
300
This is what sets the theme of love and loss in the begging of chapter 1
What is Jing-mei's mother leaving her babies behind during the war in China
300
This is the owner of the house that the Joy Luck Club meeting was held in chapter 1 of the book
What is the Hsus
400
This symbolizes breing people or families together
What is the mah jong table
400
This is the reason Popo told An-mei about the girl with the fat belly
What is to teach her not to be greedy
400
This is the other name of Jing-mei Woo
What is June
400
This is the what sets the theme of expectation versus reality in chapter 2
What is An-mei hearing all the horrible stories about her mother and her mother not being what she expected when she actually me her
400
This is the city Jing-mei's mother was fleeing to from Kweilin during the war
What is Chungking
500
This is a motif for dreams in chapter 1 that was started in Kweilin
What is The Joy Luck Club
500
This is why An-mei's grandmother consider An-mei's mother a disgrace
What is she was a concubine
500
This is what the doctor said killed Jing-mei's mother
What is a cerebral aneurysm
500
This is a broad idea, moral, or message of a story
What is a theme
500
This was the first thing Jing-mei's mother abandoned when she was walking away from Kweilin
What is her mah jong table
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