The Joy Luck Club

The stories I have read, most of them have to deal with finding out things about their mother, and losing them during the war in China against Japan. A lot of them have tragic stories to them. It either has to deal with finding out that their mother had another husband, or the mother is treated as a “Ghost” and so on. It also seems that in each story, the families don’t have a lot of happiness. Or their mother’s had to abandon their children because something that went wrong. The stories have either something to learn from or gain from. For example, in the chapter Scar Anei- Mei learned that one must let go of pain (p. 48) .There is also finding who the person is and who they are not, so it seems through these tragic stories at the end they will get to find out the truth or who they really are. A lot of these girls can handle what they learn and what they find out. Some girls would commit suicide or even just not care and those ways not the right ways to handle such situations. A lot of the story shows that they have to respect people, or they are “useless” or “disrespectful”. The stories so far all connect in their own way with similar story background in it, all because of the war that happened in China.