Essay On Opposing Views In Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club

Children often have disagreements with their parents. These disagreements are often caused by the parents’ opposing views from their childrens’ views. The parents’ opposing views are mostly caused by them having completely different experiences from their children. In Amy Tan’s book The Joy Luck Club, the characters Jing-mei and Suyuan shows that even when parents and children that even when parents and children have opposing views and values they can still grow and learn to love and understand each other.

Suyuan and Jing-mei's relationship has never been great. They have never been able to truly understand each other's views. They always felt like they were speaking different languages. I know this because while Jing-mei aunties were explaining

She wanted her daughter to have a good life since she was not able to as a child in china. She knew Jin-mei could, she just wasn’t trying. I know this because while Jing-mei was thinking back on her mother she remembered “My mother and I would sit at the Formica kitchen table. She would present new tests, taking her examples from stories of amazing children”(Tan 143) This shows how Suyan would always try to push Jing-mei to be the best no matter what it was. She knew she could be successful if she just tried. Another example of Suyan experiences was when she was in the hospital while trying to escape china she had “Look at this face; she said, and I saw her dusty face and hollow cheeks, her eyes shining back, ‘Do you see my foolish hope? I thought I had lost everything, except these two things,’ she murmured ‘And I wondered which I would lose next. Clothes or hope”(Tan 324) This shows how back while Suyan was trying to escape china she had lost everything in the process. This is mostly why she is so harsh on

Jing-mei had finally understood why her mother wanted her to be a prodigy so bad. After learning about her sisters and what happened to her mother in China. I know this because while JIng-mei ws looking through her old home after she passed she ran into her old piano and she had said “I opened up the Schumann book to the dark little piece I had played at the recital. It was on the left-hand side of the page, ‘Pleading Child’. It looked more difficult than I remembered. I played a few bars, surprised at how easily the notes came back to me”(Tan 155) This shows how Jing-mei now sees that her mother had always believed in her. That her mom just wanted her to be successful in life. Another example of them finally coming to an understanding was when Jing-mei had learnt what her name really meant “ I think about this. My mother’s long- cherished wish. Me, The younger sister who was supposed to be the essence of the others”(Tan 321) Jing-mei had seen that her mom wanted her to be the best out of her sisters. She had wanted Jin-mei to show that escaping China and losing everything was worth