The Joy Luck Club

The film of Joy Luck Club

The Joy Luck Club shows us that what the mother love is, when I finished reading, I noticed that mother love doesn't just mean mother gives everything what we need, but also includes mother's advises and reproach. We need understand them. Between mothers and daughters, there isn't just mother love, also have daughter's love. Why I like this book, because this book makes me know that. As a daughter, I should pay more attention to my mother, she is becoming older and older, I should take care of her, make her happy and let her proud of me.

     In The Joy Luck Club, Lindo is my favorite character.

     Lindo is a over-confident person in the story, she was showing off about her daughter all the time. But, she had horrible experiences in China when she was a little girl. Sha had to marry a man who she didn't know when she was 15. She had to listen to her mother, also the marriage made by the matchmaker. Then she had to keep her promise for her mother and family, also she had to think about herself, because her mother-in-law treat her poorly. She had to think about how can she deal with her life. So, the plan came out which about jumping out of this terrible marriage. Finally, Huang-tai-tai got grandson, the servant girl got marriage, she got freedom.

  At the first paragraph of the story tells us the theme of the density of Lindo. She said that her life is just for her parents. She doesn't have any choice about her life, that's all because she live in China that day. There is the most different point between America and China. All of us know that the American always be a separate individual life in the world. And the American nation is the nation which thinks the individual is the most important character for the people, they do their lives for theirselves. And nobody can change this opinion. So they really can't realize Chinese people, including why their lives for their parents or families. Why the most important density of the Chinese is controlled by other people. Why they have no choice about their own happiness. It is the most different between American culture and Chinese culture. However, it is the truth in China. There are a lot of Chinese children meet this question, their life just for their family, their weddings always have no choice for themselves, it always be linked in rights, power, money or business. So you can meet a lot of unhappiness weddings in China that period.

   There are too many symbols in China. Such as the most popular place is Beijing, cause Beijing is the capital city and there are full of power and rights. even today, too many Chinese want to live or work in Beijing. And the other one is the gold, she sad her rings is the 24 golden, the yellow gold always be the power and money in ancient and modern China. And their is a classical sentence in China that is the girl likes the water that be pulled. A majority of Chinese in that period all believe this sentence is the truth. And she said she didn't meet her husband when she was 8 or 9 years old. A part of ladies in China just like her, they didn't know their husbands until they married.

   People don't have their own spaces in a family. 20 people live in a house, they are family, so they do have no choice to live together. There are a lot of classical Chinese culture in that period, when we read this book, we do feel the differences between Chinese culture and American culture. The family and individual have many differences.

     Otherwise, in the movie, we can see something really happen poorly for her, such as her mother-in-law treat her really poorly, she was in that family as a servant. Then she got the plan which is a lie for the whole Huang family, she told them that she saw the ancestor of Huang. Luckily, they believed her then let her go. We can see that she was so smart, she didn't lose the personality of a young girl, this is the reason I liked about the movie. Because when I read this part at the first time, I was so confused about that, because I didn't understand it, I can not image that a young girl can play such a big a joke for Huang-tai-tai. Because when she was in the book, it is pretty hard to understand how she did that, while she was playing this, I can understand it perfectly. I also can see that she was so smart in the movie, I can feel it. About the movie, I liked it pretty much. I think movie is more interesting, because Lindo has strong mind and she wants to control everything. Just like she wanted to control her daughter Wavely. These kind of issues, it is hard to be seen in the book, I am really poor at imagination. So I prefer to watch the movie than to read the book. Actually I think it is a challenge for me to understand her. First of all, I was so shame about this mother who is showing off her daughter all the time. Secondly, I understand that she had really tough time in China, she had to do the things that her parents told her. Thirdly, she love her daughter so much, just like every mother like their own daughters, this is a kind of nature skill for a mother. It doesn't need to be trained.

    In my opinion, the theme about Lindo is talking about the mother whenever or whatever doesn't matter with how tough she is. In the movie, I could see her listen to her mother everything, never go the opposite way from her mother. I really think she was a good girl for the family. When she got older, she treat her daughter toughly, she just had one wish which is keep the promise for the parents. She loves her daughter in Chinese way. But Wavely grew up in the USA, that's the reason that she didn't understand why Lindo did something. Such as to be serious for Wavely's husband or boyfriend. It is just about the different culture. I still think Lindo is a really good mother.

     I would recommend this story for you, because it really teaches me something, that I can not really learn from my age. Because, these are the things that we have to take our time slowly to understand it. Absolutely, I need to learn how to be nice to my mother. I will try to understand her as well. I feel that if both of us, my mother and I read this book, we will make a really good connection. That's all my thoughts from The Joy Luck Club.