Similarities Between The Joy Luck Club And Mother's Day

Crossing Of The Cultural Divide In the novel, The Joy Luck Club, written by Amy Tan, follows a storyline that explores the relationships between four Chinese-American mothers and their four Chinese-American daughters, navigating the cultural divide between their ancestral roots and their American upbringing. The poem, “Mother’s Day” by Daisy Zamora, describes the struggles and sacrifices of mothers, particularly those living in poverty, as they strive to provide for their children, and maintain hope in the place of hardship. Both The Joy Luck Club and “Mother's Day” use characterization, tone, and diction to illustrate the theme that the insist on cultural identity of instilling cultural values onto their children, can often result in the rejection

Exhibiting that she is moving on and not letting Lena’s rejection and a small understanding of her culture hold her back. Finally, we can see how both authors use the device of diction to display the message that often, cultural values are rejected due to parents’ insistence on cultural identity and instilling cultural values in their children. We can see this through the JLC novel when Ying Ying talks about her plan to force her traditional Chinese culture onto her daughter Lena, when she thinks, “I will use this sharp pain to penetrate my daughter's tough skin and cut her tiger spirit loose. She will fight me because this is the name of two tigers. But I will win and give her my spirit because this is the way a mother loves her daughter”(252). This unveils Ying Ying’s pure desire to plant her cultural values onto Lena, even with her natural inclination to resist. The author uses strong diction with references like ‘two tigers’ to suggest the fierce nature of struggle where both mother and daughter are determined to assert their perspectives, even with complications with communicating with one