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    The document provides a summary and analysis of the novel "The Joy Luck Club." It discusses how the four mothers in the story, who all suffered traumatic experiences, formed the Joy Luck Club to pass on life lessons to their daughters. While the daughters did not suffer directly, they learned about the dangers of the world through the stories and experiences shared by their mothers. The overarching theme is that the mothers wanted to teach their daughters important life lessons through storytelling, as a way to help protect them, since the mothers couldn't always be there to help directly.

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    The document provides a summary and analysis of the novel "The Joy Luck Club." It discusses how the four mothers in the story, who all suffered traumatic experiences, formed the Joy Luck Club to pass on life lessons to their daughters. While the daughters did not suffer directly, they learned about the dangers of the world through the stories and experiences shared by their mothers. The overarching theme is that the mothers wanted to teach their daughters important life lessons through storytelling, as a way to help protect them, since the mothers couldn't always be there to help directly.

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    The document provides a summary and analysis of the novel "The Joy Luck Club." It discusses how the four mothers in the story, who all suffered traumatic experiences, formed the Joy Luck Club to pass on life lessons to their daughters. While the daughters did not suffer directly, they learned about the dangers of the world through the stories and experiences shared by their mothers. The overarching theme is that the mothers wanted to teach their daughters important life lessons through storytelling, as a way to help protect them, since the mothers couldn't always be there to help directly.

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    Navarro 1

    Montserrat Navarro

    Mr. Lippitt

    English Honors , Period 1

    6 November 2012

    “THE JOY LUCK CLUB”

    Sadly we have reached the end of the Joy Luck Club (Gerund). In the end ,

    all these women, Suyuan Woo, An-mei Hsu, Lindo Jong, and Ying-ying St. Clair , who all

    suffered through horrific moments in their lifetimes, have learned a lot (Relative Clause).

    They’ve learned that the world can be a dangerous place, and they have lost their

    innocence to learn it. Now, they see evil everywhere and they ask themselves if they are

    associated with the evilness. The resolution to all this madness was for the mothers to

    learn about the dangers of the world and teach their daughters the same, in the Joy Luck

    Club (Prepositional Phrase). There wasn’t specifically one climax, there were many. An

    example would be of how Jing-mei’s mother died and she has been filling in the position in

    the Joy Luck Club as her mother (Noun Phrase). Her aunts tell her stories , and she has

    been sent to China to find her lost half-sisters. Furthermore, the stories and the

    experience Jing-mei went through taught her the lesson her mother was trying to teach

    her (Adverbial Phrase).

    The most important sentence in the end of the book was : “Then you must teach my

    daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but not your hope. How to laugh

    forever.” (213) The reason to why this quote is important is because the whole purpose of

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    the Joy Luck Club was to teach the mother’s daughters the lesson of life, how evil is in the
    world. Because the mothers suffered the pain in their lifetime , they learned what they

    had to and passed it on to the next generation (Subordinate clause).

    One prediction I had was that the mothers were going to make their daughters

    suffer as much as they did for them to learn the lesson. I was wrong , the daughters did

    learn their lesson, but they didn’t suffer. The young women were told stories about what

    the mothers went through hoping the girls would open their eyes about life. An inference I

    made was about the Jing-mei’s aunts. They weren’t bad people to her. Their attitude wasn’t

    the best, but because of them, they were able to tell their stories and help Jing-mei

    realize about life since her mother wasn’t there to help her. The aunts had sent Jing-mei

    to China and find her step-sisters to warn them about their mother’s death. All they did

    was try and help her.

    Even though stories are for entertainment, they always have a message behind

    them (Subordinate clause). The stories were experiences the mothers had faced in their

    life, and they were sharing it to their daughters for their well-being. Thinking about

    stories , my parents tell me stories about their life every time I get in trouble (Participle).

    They teach me life lessons so I can learn from their mistakes. Although a lot of troubles

    might happen with your mother, a mother will be their for their child all the time. Not all

    mothers have been their for their kids, but most have. And those most have raised their

    children. In the Joy Luck Club, mothers were reaching out to their daughters. All they

    wanted was to help them learn about life because they knew they weren’t going to be able

    to help them step by step.

    Repetition I found throughout the book was the words “mother”(242, 243, 245,

    246) and “daughter” (241, 244, 252). The most repeating actions I noticed was how they

    kept thinking (250,253,280, 274) and walking (252,251, 293). A repeating symbol I noticed
    was the house

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    because it kept meaning a new life and a new lesson to which the daughter had been

    learning. (251,252,254). Finally, the theme that kept repeating was the lesson and the

    stories that were being taught to the daughters so they could learn about life . (On every

    page).

    THEE ENDDDDD! (:

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