https://padlet.com/herringea/joyluck5 How to Read Literature Like a Professor Connections en-us 2020-09-03 19:04:36 UTC 2025-11-18 05:23:41 UTC hello@padlet.com herringea https://padlet.com/herringea/joyluck5/wish/719193542 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.]]> 2020-09-03 19:04:36 UTC https://padlet.com/herringea/joyluck5/wish/719193542 herringea https://padlet.com/herringea/joyluck5/wish/719193545 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. ]]> 2020-09-03 19:04:36 UTC https://padlet.com/herringea/joyluck5/wish/719193545 https://padlet.com/herringea/joyluck5/wish/742435853 Thomas Foster says that food is a way to bond and change a persons relationship toward each other. “I thought i was doing the right thing, taking the crab with the missing leg. But my mother cried, ‘No! No! Big one, you eat it, i cannot finish.” (226) Then later on, “My mother looked at me and smiled. ‘Only you pick that crab, Nobody else take it. Everybody els want best quality. You thinking different.’ She said it in a way as if she had proof- proof of something good.” June is seeing her, and her mothers relationship differently than before this dinner.]]> 2020-09-14 00:53:57 UTC https://padlet.com/herringea/joyluck5/wish/742435853 https://padlet.com/herringea/joyluck5/wish/742459510 In Fosters book he said that a symbol could be anything from a place, object, action, etc. Lena St. Clair’s vase is a symbol in my opinion. Her marriage is in danger of breaking and she’s doing nothing to save it, Just as she sat the vase upon a wobbly table, knowing the vase was in danger of breaking, she did nothing about it. “I see it right away: the marble end table collapsed on top of its spindly black legs. Off to the side is the black vase, the smooth cylinder in half...’It doesn’t matter,’ I say, and start to pick up the broken glass shards. ‘I knew it would happen.’]]> 2020-09-14 01:06:24 UTC https://padlet.com/herringea/joyluck5/wish/742459510 https://padlet.com/herringea/joyluck5/wish/749959373 In The Moon Lady chapter Ying Ying tells a story of when she was young and she had fell in the water. Thomas Foster’s idea was that when going underwater and coming up, it is some kind of ‘rebirth’ , becoming someone different. Before she entered the water she didn’t know how to cage her own desires like her Amah told her to. But when coming out the water she learned to stifle her desires. “And so though i was found- later that night after Amah, Baba, Uncle, and the others shouted for me along the waterway- i never believed my family found the same girl.”]]> 2020-09-16 00:11:08 UTC https://padlet.com/herringea/joyluck5/wish/749959373 https://padlet.com/herringea/joyluck5/wish/749996489 Foster says the geography matters, that it can change a person. That is true for Jing-Mei because in the very last chapter as soon as she stepped foot in China she felt a connection to her heritage, and her mother that she never felt before. “And now i see what part of me is Chinese. It is so obvious. It is my family. It is in our blood.”]]> 2020-09-16 00:30:01 UTC https://padlet.com/herringea/joyluck5/wish/749996489 hayden12200 https://padlet.com/herringea/joyluck5/wish/755588999 2020-09-17 15:05:31 UTC https://padlet.com/herringea/joyluck5/wish/755588999 https://padlet.com/herringea/joyluck5/wish/762632038 Thomas Foster says that anytime characters eat together it can be communion. Any time they eat in the joy luck club would be communion. ]]> 2020-09-21 00:59:08 UTC https://padlet.com/herringea/joyluck5/wish/762632038 https://padlet.com/herringea/joyluck5/wish/762652766 The red candle would be a symbol from when Lindo was forced into marring her husband it was said that the ceremony was marked with the lighting of the two ended red candle.]]> 2020-09-21 01:11:39 UTC https://padlet.com/herringea/joyluck5/wish/762652766 hiller109146 https://padlet.com/herringea/joyluck5/wish/795286664 Foster says throughout this chapter that geography often has an effect on the characters. This is seen when June and her father visit China to reconnect with his aunt and June’s half sisters. When June and her father arrive to China, June finally feels complete and that she has seen both sides or her life. ]]> 2020-10-01 16:13:58 UTC https://padlet.com/herringea/joyluck5/wish/795286664 hiller109146 https://padlet.com/herringea/joyluck5/wish/795297307 Foster explains throughout the chapter on baptism that a character does not have to be submerged in the water for it to symbolize their “rebirth”, it can be a simple rain shower as long as the character gets wet. This happens to Rose when she asks Ted to come over to their home to discuss the status of their marriage and her terms for the divorce. While the two talk in the overgrown garden, it is pouring rain down on the two, and it is at this moment that Rose seems to realize her “self-worth” after her earlier fear of responsibility and speaking up and she tells Ted that she plans to keep the house after he had planned on selling it. ]]> 2020-10-01 16:16:14 UTC https://padlet.com/herringea/joyluck5/wish/795297307 hiller109146 https://padlet.com/herringea/joyluck5/wish/795526965 When An-Mei is gifted the pearl necklace by Wu-Tsing’s second wife she is overjoyed and her heart and mind have been bought with such a beautiful gift until An-Mei’s mom breaks one of the pearls showing that it is fake and made of glass. This represents how easily you can be swayed by something you think is genuine when in reality it’s fake.]]> 2020-10-01 17:05:44 UTC https://padlet.com/herringea/joyluck5/wish/795526965 hiller109146 https://padlet.com/herringea/joyluck5/wish/810891627 Foster explains that communion shows character relationships. When they have the crab dinner Waverly said, “That stuff you wrote, well, the firm decided it was unacceptable¨ (229). This shows a side of Waverly and June’s relationship that hasn’t been seen before. Waverly didn’t want to hurt Junes feelings which shows that she actually cares about June.]]> 2020-10-07 16:14:39 UTC https://padlet.com/herringea/joyluck5/wish/810891627