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·         In the Disney film Encanto, Abuela is devastated by losing her husband, Felix. This negatively affects her and causes her to raise her children with an unhealthy mindset. This relationship causes her children to grow up and feel on edge whenever they are around her. This cycle of loss, trauma and unhealthy relationships is similar to some of the stories in Amy Tan’s novel The Joy Luck Club. This novel demonstrates how losing a loved one can negatively affect one's mental state and relationships through the stories of Rose, Ying-Ying, and Lena.

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In the Pixar movie Turning Red, the mother, Ming Lee, tries to reconnect with her daughter, Meilin Lee, to have a better relationship. She hides an important part of herself and her daughter thinking that it would benefit Meilin. When Ming Lee allows herself to portray her inner red panda Meilin relates to her now. She knows more about her culture and that acting different profits her. In the novel The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, Lindo, An-Mei’s Mother and Suyuan strengthen their mother-daughter relationships for the daughter’s well-being.

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Tony Gaskins Jr., a professional life coach once said in an interview on “The Healthy”, a popular blog, that “Communication to a relationship is like oxygen is to life. Without it, it dies” (Andersen & Gasbarre, 2022). Gaskins explains in this quote that communication is a necessity to achieving healthy relationships. This theme can be applied to many different types of relationships, whether it is a relationship between siblings, spouses, or in The Joy Luck Club, mother-daughter. In Amy Tan's novel the relationships between the mothers and daughters, Ying-Ying and Lena, Lindo and Waverly, and An-Mei and Rose, display that any mother-daughter relationship can become spiteful through miscommunication.

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In the 2012 Pixar movie, Brave, Princess Merida and Queen Elinor struggle to maintain their relationship when Merida doesn’t act how her mother wants her to. The queen believes Merida should listen to her parents and live a life similar to her own, but Merida wants to go on adventures and live by her own rules. This difference in wants and expectations puts a strain on their relationship. A similar struggle is displayed between the mothers and daughters in The Joy Luck Club. In the novel, author, Amy Tan, illustrates how young Chinese women are expected to be quiet and obedient while young American women are encouraged to choose their own path, creating a rift between the immigrant mothers and their daughters.

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In the Disney film Finding Nemo, Coral, Nemo’s mother, sacrifices her life to save her eggs from a predator. When she sees the predator eyeing the place her eggs were held, she did not hesitate to attack. Coral’s selfless act of bravery is similar to that of Ani-mei’s mother and Suyan’s sacrifices for their families throughout The Joy Luck Club. In the novel by Amy Tan, Suyan and Ani-mei’s mother’s sacrifices prove their love for their families.

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Louisa May Alcott once said through her literary character, Jo March “I don't believe I shall ever marry; I'm happy as I am and love my liberty too well to be in any hurry to give it up for any mortal man” (Chapter 35, do not have page number yet). At this place in the novel, Jo is finally finding and becoming who she wants to be as a woman in the early nineteenth century. This communicates to an audience the importance of women’s independence and strength in times where gender equality was not prominent. Much like Jo in Little Women who creates her own path by refusing the man she was expected to marry, Rose Hsu Jordan and Lena St. Clair both had the choice to end their marriages. In the novel The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, the importance of honor and obedience of women living in traditional China is compared to the modern beliefs and abilities of women in America today through Lindo's, Lena's, and Rose's experiences.

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In the Disney Film Moana, Grandma Tala demonstrates a crucial sacrificial act. By giving Moana the Heart of Te Fiti, she sacrifices the one thing that kept her alive for so long. She knew that without it she would perish, but still gave it to Moana for the betterment of her tribe. Grandma Tala’s audacious sacrifice is similar to the sacrifices undergone by characters in the commended novel, The Joy Luck Club. In Amy Tan’s novel, characters such as Suyuan, Lindo and An-Mei's mother all undergo physical sacrifice to give their loved ones a better life.

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In the Netflix TV series, Stranger Things, by Matt and Ross Duffer, the character Hopper sacrifices his life to save his loved ones. Hopper and Joyce had to close the Mothergate, or portal, to the Upside Down, an alternate dimensions home to many monsters, to save the world from being taken over from the mind flayer, a monster from the Upside Down (Duffer Brothers, writers. Stranger Things. 2016, Netflix, www.netflix.com.). To close the portal, Joyce had to destroy the machine that kept the Mothergate open (Duffer Brothers, writers. Stranger Things. 2016, Netflix, www.netflix.com.). In doing this, she would kill Hopper (Duffer Brothers, writers. Stranger Things. 2016, Netflix, www.netflix.com.). Hopper gave her permission to shut down the machine, exploding it, and to her knowledge killing Hopper (Duffer Brothers, writers. Stranger Things. 2016, Netflix, www.netflix.com.). Hopper survived but was ready to sacrifice anything for the people he loved just like the mothers in the novel the Joy Luck Club (Duffer Brothers, writers. Stranger Things. 2016, Netflix, www.netflix.com.). In Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan, characters Suyann, An-mei’s mother, and Lindo, all demonstrate a major theme, love is full of sacrifices, showing they will do anything for their family.

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In the movie The Notebook written by Nicholas Sparks, Allie loses her memory due to dementia. Her husband, Noah, reads to her the passionate story of their life, written in his diary. Since Allie has no recollection of him, Noah’s reading allows him to feel connected to his wife and stay within her reach. The loss of Allie’s memory causes her family to grieve their grandmother, mother, and wife for a long period of time. In the novel The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, the author writes how the loss of a family member has a lasting, negative impact on a family demonstrated through the characters when Rose loses Bing, June loses her mother, and Ying-Ying loses her unborn child.

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In the Disney Pixar movie, Finding Nemo, Marlin, a father clownfish loses his wife and all but one of his children to a barracuda. Losing a child is devastating to a parent because of the impending feeling that they could have done something to protect their child and a massive hole of emptiness is left behind where their child used to be.  Marlin goes through a similar feeling of devastation, emptiness, and guilt that the mothers from The Joy Luck Club suffered. In the novel written by Amy Tan, Ying-Ying, Suyuan, and An-Mei show the impacts of losing a child, and demonstrate the emptiness left behind for the bereaved mothers.

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In the novel The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Evelyn Hugo reflects on her many marriages saying, “Some marriages aren’t really that great. Some loves aren’t all-encompassing. Sometimes you separate because you weren’t that good together to begin with. Sometimes divorce isn’t an earth-shattering loss. Sometimes it’s just two people waking up out of a fog.” In this book Reid takes the reader on a journey through love and loss with an overarching theme surrounding the ideas of love, marriage, and confidence and how those ideas interact. The main character Evelyn Hugo shows again and again throughout the novel that a main source of her self-love and independence is her many marriages, especially those without the vital piece that is love. This idea can be applied to all marriages. In the novel The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan the stories of Lindo, Lena, and Rose show that marriages with a lack of love foster a sense of self-love and independence.

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A traumatic event is one that causes significant mental or physical suffering. It is defined as a mental injury brought on by an emotional wound. Typically, trauma tends to impact a character’s life and how they treat others in this state. This can be demonstrated in the novel The Joy Luck Club. Author Amy Tan demonstrates how the effects of an upset, disturbed and hurtful childhood impact not only one person but the people they love.

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In an interview conducted by The Arizona Republic, Maya Angelou claims, “If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going.” Angelou suggests, maybe in contrary to one’s personal beliefs, that we cannot focus on the future until we have acknowledged the past. If only this lesson could be taught to Wavery Jong, An-mei Hsu, and Jing-mei Woo, who constantly battle their mothers while relentlessly striving to develop and deepen their relationships without an understanding of their cultural heritage. In Amy Tan’s novel, The Joy Luck Club, Tan stresses the importance of cultural knowledge in the establishment and growth of relationships between mothers and daughters, as shown through Waverly, An-mei, and June’s stories.

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·         In Disney’s Princess and the Frog, Tiana is obsessed with following her astonishing, new career. It becomes the only thing she can think about, and she forgets to enjoy her life. Finally, she meets Prince Naveen, and he teaches her the importance of having stability between her work and enjoyment for her own sanity. Likely, Ying-Ying and Lena’s mental health take tolls once their lives become unbalanced. In Amy Tan's novel, The Joy Luck Club, she teaches readers about the importance of having a balance in your life to feel more stable and happier.

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In Disney’s film, Hercules, Hercules sacrifices his place in his true home, Mount Olympus, to continue to flourish the love he shared with Meg. Hercules’s sacrifice is what allowed him to experience his love for Meg on a deeper, more genuine level. The element of sacrifice that is shown in Hercules can also be found in between mother-daughter relationships in the novel The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. In Tan’s work, An-mei's and Suyuan's stories show that sacrifice is the only way to offer genuine love, while Lena and Harold's story show that lack of sacrifice diminishes love between them.

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In the well-known Disney film Coco, Miguel demonstrates the pain that comes from losing a loved one. Miguel experiences anguish when his great-grandmother, whom he cherishes, passes away from old age. Miguel’s experience of grief from losing someone special to him is similar to the sorrow that some of the mothers and daughters experience in Amy Tan’s novel The Joy Luck Club. Many of the mothers and a few of the daughters in the undergo pain from losing someone they loved and cherished. In the novel The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan shows how grief is affected by the loss of a loved one, the sacrifice of family, and the loss of one’s freedom.

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In literature, the loss of a child is shown to bring a mother through the stages of grief. Consequently, a mother suffers through the realization of her loss through deep, dark mental stages as a result of  the overwhelming shock and tragedy that takes over. Through  text, the audience is able to see tragedy as a twist, the change in not only the text but in the character resulting in the loss. In the novel The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, Ying-Ying, An-mei, and Suyuan all experience the loss of a child; this is shown through their pain of grief, denial, and belief they endure.

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In the comedy Cruella, Cruella’s mom dies a tragic death, causing Cruella to be orphaned and alone in the city. There she finds some friends who she grows up with, but because of her circumstances, they steal to get the money they need to survive. The trauma Cruella endures from this experience creates who she eventually becomes a person. Like some characters in The Joy Luck Club, the death of Cruella’s mother had a lasting and obstructive impact on her, turning her into a criminal. In Amy Tan’s novel, the negative and long-lasting impact of the trauma from losing a family member is shown through Ying-ying losing her son, Rose losing her brother, and An-mei losing her mother.

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In the English language, the word “loss” can be defined in many ways. This word can be used to define anything from death and destruction to the misplacement of inanimate things. The type of loss that leaves the most negative impact is defined as a feeling or a state of being of grief of being deprived of someone or something of great value to oneself. This definition of loss is portrayed in the novel, The Joy Luck Club. The author of this novel, Amy Tan, portrays through her characters: An-Mei Hsu, Ying-Ying St. Clair, and Waverly Jong, that loss negatively impacts aspects of one’s life.

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In the novel Jane Eyre, Jane exclaims, “I am a free human being with an independent will” (Brontë 252). She had just learned of her fiancé’s previous attachment to another woman and spoke her mind when he tried to convince her to remain with him. In a time period where women were seen as inferior to men, Jane was courageously speaking words that were shocking to hear. Similarly, many of the women in Amy Tan’s novel stood up for themselves, even when the people surrounding them did not approve of such actions. In The Joy Luck Club, the author shows the importance of independence when she writes three of the major characters, Waverly, Jing Mei, and Rose, to display rebellious natures against their family in order to achieve what they think is best for themselves.

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In the Disney movie Frozen, Anna and Elsa’s parents, the King and Queen of Arendelle, perish at sea. Their deaths affect the whole kingdom, especially Anna and Elsa. This situation can be compared to stories of Chinese mothers and American daughters written by Amy Tan. In the novel The Joy Luck Club, the author shows that the loss of a loved one has lifelong consequences on their family when June loses her mother, Rose loses Bing, and Ying Ying loses her unborn child.