![]() She also didn't have her daughters and never told Jing-Mei what had happened to the twins. ![]() By the time she finally arrived, she had had to lighten her load and was left with only three dresses. She put her belongings and two daughters and began the long trip to Chunaking. She knew that meant the Japanese were coming and the families of officers would be killed. One day an officer hinted to her to join her husband in Chunaking. Therefore, the name of the little parties was Joy Luck. Then when they left, they wished each other luck and joy. They would meet to play mahjong, have a 'feast' and tell stories. Suyuan got together with three other women. Kweilin was a town of refugees, with little resources. There they were to remain safely while he went to Chunaking. Her mother, Suyuan, had based the mahjong playing club on another club she had founded while still in China.įuchi Wang, Suyuan's first husband, an officer in Kuomintang which was a militaristic political party that ran China from 1928 to 1940, had taken Suyuan and their twin daughters to a small town called Kweilin. He and his wife began the Joy Luck Club in 1949 after they emigrated from China to San Francisco. Her father, Canning Woo, asked her to come to the Mahjong party with him. This section starts with Jing-mei visiting her father. When her daughter is born and then grows up to be a just the kind of strong woman she imagined, she wants to give her the feather but chooses to wait until she can explain the symbolic meaning in perfect English. She plans to give the swan to her daughter, but the immigration officials seize the swan, leaving her with nothing but a feather. The girl will look like her but she will be judged by her own actions, not by her husband's. The woman sails to America dreaming of the daughter she will someday have. He stretched his neck so far that he became a swan. She buys a swan from a vendor before embarking and he tells her the story of a duck who wanted to be a goose. ![]() The first section begins with a parable about a Chinese woman who is emigrating to America. She sees her mother's face in the combination of their faces. When she and her father gets off the plane, she is surprised to meet with kindness and love. Suyuan had found her daughters but had died before she could meet with them. Jing-Mei, the daughter of Suyuan, is given the task of meeting the twin daughters her mother was forced to leave in China by the other members of the Joy Luck Club. Their mothers use criticisms to show their love to their daughters, but their daughters, raised Americans, don't understand that kind of love. Each of the four daughters tells their story and their relationships with their mothers. Each mother tells her story, except for Suyuan because she died before the beginning of the book, her story is told by others. The book is divided into four parts and each part is divided into four sections. ![]()
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