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For each chapter in How to Read Literature Like a Professor, find at least one specific connection to The Joy Luck Club. Try to include a chapter or page number from The Joy Luck Club, and make an effort to keep from duplicating connections.

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Foster stresses that food is often used to explore character relationships, and in the swan parable, the mother states that her daughter "swallows more Coca-Cola than sorrow" (17). Coca-Cola is a very American product, and this food/drink reference illustrates the divide between the Chinese mother and the American-born daughter.

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The swan from the Joy Luck Club in the introduction can be related to both culture, tradition, and hope. Most obviously you can see it representing culture. The mother coming to America had a swan and when she came to America it was taken away leaving her with only a feather. This relates to the daughter and their culture as first generation Asian-Americans. It shows how their culture was somewhat taken away from them and they were only left with a little of it.

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The green jade pendant that Jing-Mei’s mother gave her is a symbol that Jing-Mei is still growing ad improving. When her mother gave her the green jade, it wasn’t rally in good shape and wasn’t the best looking, but over time it’ll stat to look better and older (when the mother’s give their daughters jewelry it usually means something.)

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Jing-Mei’s Visit to See Her Long Lost Sisters

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Jing-Mei’s Visit to See Her Long Lost Sisters

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Jing-Mei’s visit to see her sisters was hesitant at first. She was nervous her sisters would be mad that Jing Mei did not tell them of the passing of their mother. Once Jing Mei got to China, she felt different - more like her mother, more Chinese. Traveling to China helped Jing Mei realize that China was calling her back -> that she needed to go to China and see her sisters to fully realize the impact of her mother’s wishes and her mother’s Chinese prophecies. Jing Mei could not have realized the pure intentions of her mother in America and needed to go back to her roots.

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In the chapter ‘The Red Candle,’ Lindo Jong’s house gets destroyed, causing her family to move away and Lindo moves into the house of her future husband. This causes Lindo to have to change her whole life and become somebody new in this new house, almost like a rebirth.

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The game of mahjong they play they talk about the difference between Jewish mahjong and Chinese mahjong.  I feel as if they talk this way to try and emphasize that they’re culture is different from others.  I also feel like the game could be a symbol of the struggles they dealt with before coming to America.

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In the rice husband story the case symbolizes Lenas marriage. She put the vase somewhere dangerous and could cause it to break and just like her marriage it was in a very dangerous place and in danger of shattering. Reading this part of the book made me think that the reason their marriage is failing is because Harold doesn’t try hard enough and he’s not supporting his part enough for it to work. The table symbolizes Harold and his lack of support

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The Red Candle
The Red Candle is a symbol for Lindo’s marriage, both sides staying lit mean the marriage will continue in love, but when the servant watching the candle (without anyone noticing but Lindo) let one end of the candle go out, Lindo knew her marriage wasn’t going to have a happily ever after even though everyone else believed this. This connects to the chapter “Is That a Symbol?” because the candle going out was a symbol for how the marriage would go.

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In the chapter "The Moon Lady", Ying-Ying falls off of her family's boat and into the water, and almost drowns. Luckily, others come to the rescue, and take her to the shore. However, after that and her experience with the Moon Lady, she believes she changed as a person, saying "I never believed my family found the same girl." (83) This is a sort of rebirth, and not in a good way.

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This goes with both geography and water. The mother goes across the ocean to start a new life and then it’s also geographic because she’s going from Asia to America to start a new life.

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In the chapter “The Joy Luck Club:  Jing-Mei Woo” Jing-Mei’s mother Suyuan Left her first kids on the side of the road when trying to Escape from the Japanese, she later moves to America abandoning the children further.

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An Mei’s mother committed suicide for a better life. An Mei’s mother’s spirit still lives and it was her way of giving her daughter a different life and passing on her spirit. causing her daughter to come up as a whole knew person.

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When Suyuan first started her journey after from the Japanese, she had to go on a long trek from her town to the next town. It was a long distance, and it was difficult terrain for her to travel. This caused her to leave everything she had, including her children, so she was not able to raise them. This connects her giving up everything to go to American, but it also connects with how when she dies, she leaves a lot of things unfinished, like her relationship with Jing-Mei and the discovery of her twins.

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Lindo originally lived with her family and from a young age knew who her future husband would be, although it wasn’t up to her. After her family’s house got destroyed in a storm, her family had to move away but left her behind to live with her future husbands family. She had to fully restart her life and learn knew ways of living with these people she barely knew, this connects to this chapter “If She Comes Up, It’s Baptism” because her living with a new family was sort of like a rebirth into a new life.

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(Chapter - Best Quality) Jing Mei’s mother at last year’s Chinese New Year was filled with several strained conversations. The largest being between Jing Mei and her childhood enemy, Waverly. Communion and the sharing of food is usually between those who are close, or wanting to get close, but the family friends are not as connected as they could be...hidden behind fake compliments and sly comments.

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In the chapter "Half and Half" Rose talked about her and Ted's garden and how the garden symbolized their marriage. She thought that the health flowers meant her marriage would be safe and healthy.

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In the story when Jing-mei finds out that she has other sisters, their names are  Chwun Yu (Spring Rain), Chwun Hwa (Spring Flower), these names all play together because Jing-mei’s name means (June) which can symbolize rebirth and reunion of spring going into summer.

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I think that the garden symbolized their marriage. Rose thought that when the garden was healthy it symbolized how their marriage was healthy and when they were separated the garden decayed just like their marriage but actually the garden symbolized how Ted controlled it just like he controlled Rose’s life.