JLC: Who's Who?
Considered to be the protagonist of The Joy Luck Club; mother is Suyuan Woo; main character in "Two Kinds."
Jing-Mei "June" Woo
Was forced to marry Tyan-yu
Lindo Jong
This is a cause for concern for Jing-Mei at the end of Chapter 1, "The Joy Luck Club."
This is why An-Mei's mother returned.
Popo was dying, and out of respect and tradition, An-Mei's mother returned to try to save her by sacrificing a piece of her own flesh and boiling it in a soup for Popo to eat.
What type of figurative language is demonstrated in the following quotation from The Joy Luck Club?
"The bloated [inner] tube leapt up, and then it was sucked in, under the wall and into a cavern. . .it disappeared, emerged, glistening black, faithfully reporting that it had seen Bing and was going back to try to pluck him from the cave."
Personification
Mother is Lindo Jong; chess prodigy; daughter named Shoshana
Waverly "Mei-Mei" Jong
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!
Lost her son, Bing.
An-Mei Hsu
Who has a scar by the end of Chapter 2, "Scar"?
An-Mei (on her neck), and her mother (on her arm)
This is what Ying-Ying wishes on the Moon Lady for.
To be found
What type of figurative language is demonstrated in the following quotation from The Joy Luck Club?
"The Hsu's house feels heavy with greasy odors. Too many Chinese meals cooked in a too small kitchen, too many once fragrant smells compressed onto a thin layer of invisible grease."
Imagery
Mother is An-Mei Hsu; divorcing Ted; indecisive; main character in "Half and Half"
Rose Hsu Jordan
Was most likely a mail-order bride
Ying Ying St. Clair
This is why Popo hated An-Mei's mother.
An-Mei's mother had married a man with a wife and two concubines after An-Mei's father passed away. Popo believed she had dishonored her family, and she told An-Mei that her mother was unworthy to raise her and live in the same house.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!
Define nengkan.
The abiliy to accomplish anything one puts his/her mind to
What type of figurative language is demonstrated in the following quotation from The Joy Luck Club?
"I smiled. And then I realized it was the first time I could see the power of the wind. I couldn’t see the wind itself, but I could see it carried the water that filled the rivers and shaped the countryside. It caused men to yelp and dance. I wiped my eyes and looked in the mirror. I was surprised at what I saw. I had on a beautiful red dress, but what I saw was even more valuable. I was strong. I was pure. I had genuine thoughts inside that no one could see, that no one could ever take away from me. I was like the wind."
Simile
Mother is Ying-Ying; main character in "The Voice from the Wall"; married to Harold
Lena St. Clair
Had a stillbirth
Ying-Ying St. Clair
This is why the candle went out in "The Red Candle."
Lindo blows it out in the middle of the night when the servant had run away, thinking the thunderstorm was an attack from the Japanese.
This is what Jing-Mei realizes at the end of "Two Kinds."
What type of figurative language is demonstrated in the following quotation from The Joy Luck Club?
"'Chinese people do many things,' she said simply. 'Chinese people do business, do medicine, do painting. Not lazy like American people. We do torture. Best torture.'"
Dialect/Verbal Irony
Began The Joy Luck Club in Kweilin, China
Suyuan Woo
Had a brain aneurysm
Suyuan Woo
This is the significance of The Twenty-Six Malignant Gates.
It is a book that predicts how children will hurt themselves or die based on their birthdays on the Chinese calendar. An-Mei didn't know her children's birthdays according to the Chinese calendar, so it is thought that that is why she couldn't prevent/predict Bing's death.
This is how Lindo escapes her first marriage.
She told Taitai that her ancestors came to her in a dream and said that the matchmaker's servant had allowed Tyan-yu's end of the candle to go out, which meant Tyan-yu would die if he stayed in the marriage.
What type of figurative language is demonstrated in the following quotation from The Joy Luck Club?
"Her black men advanced across the plane. . . My white pieces screamed as they scurried and fell off the board one by one. . .I closed my eyes and pondered my next move."
Metaphor/Symbolism; Personification