Characters
This character is the grandmother of An-Mei Hsu.
Who is Popo?
Suyuan Woo started this club when she came to San Francisco.
What is The Joy Luck Club
This action shows respect for those who are sick in chinese culture.
What is cutting out and boiling flesh in soup?
A story told to young children in order to keep them in line.
What is the story of "The 26 Malignant Gates?"
“What will I say? What can I tell them about my mother? I don’t know anything. She was my mother.”
Who is Jing-Mei?
This character's name was written on the first page of the bible.
Who is Bing Hsu Jordan?
Lindo Jong does this action in order to escape an arranged marriage.
What is blowing out her end of the candle?
Lindo Jong explains to her daughter that the red candle represents this in Chinese wedding tradition.
What is marriage?
Bing's name was written and found in this religious text/place.
What is the bible under table leg?
“I watched my mother, seeing her for the first time, this pretty woman with her white skin and oval face, not too round like Auntie’s or sharp like Popo’s”
Who is An-Mei Su?
This character was Rose's divorced husband.
Who is Ted Jordan?
Waverly becomes a chess ___ by the age of nine.
What is a national champion?
This is why Suyann Wu pushed her daughter to play piano despite her hatred for the activity.
What is wanting her daughter to succeed and do better in life than she did, and to show honor?
This object in chapter 12 symbolizes a deep connection in culture, love, and hope for a brighter future.
What is the Jade Necklace?
“My mother had looked in my rice bowl and told me I would marry a bad man.”
Who is Lena St. Clair?
This character did Waverly's hair, which her mother disapproved of.
Who is Mr. Rory?
Ying Ying smears this on her clothes while at a feast.
What is Turtle Blood?
This word means respect, especially towards ancestors or elders.
What is Shou?
When fleeing from Kwelling, Suyann Wu INITIALLY flee's from the village with her two children, her husband, and _______?
What are the silk dresses?
“Her wisdom is like a bottomless pond. You throw stones in and they sink into the darkness and dissolve.”
Who is Ying-Ying St. Clair
This is the peasant woman who raises the twin daughters Suyuan Woo left behind in Kwelling.
Who is Mei Ching?
Waverly’s mother uses this tactic to remind Waverly that her successes are never fully her own.
What is guilt?
Many mothers in the Joy Luck Club stress this cultural value, emphasizing family duty over personal desire.
What is filial piety?
The theme of _____ is prevalent when An-Meis' mother Receives a piece of jewlery?
What is Betrayal; A sapphire ring?
“ I was so much like my mother. This was before our circumstances separated us: a flood that caused my family to leave me behind, my first marriage, to a family that did not want me, a war from all sides, and later, an ocean that took me to a new country."
Who is Lindo Jong?