The Joy Luck Club

      

        Amy Tan, an American writer who has wrote several works, the most well-known one is called The Joy Luck Club. It has translated in 35 languages. In 1933, this book was adapted into a successful movie with the same name of the novel. According to the understanding of Amy Tan's own life story, I can see that she was inspired by her own experience to write The Joy Luck Club. The movie/ novel is about mother-daughter relationship. There are four pair mother-daughters. It is about four Chinese American immigrant families. Mothers are all good friends and daughters grew up together. They always get together in the Joy Luck Club where people play Chinese traditional game Mahjong for money while feasting a variety of foods. From the beginning of the movie, June's mother passed away. She is asked to take her mom's place at the Mahjong table. As the story goes on, I hear stories of the old times and the new. When parents struggle to adjust to America, their American children must struggle with the confusion of having immigrant parents. The relationships between the mothers and daughters show a gap of no understanding. 

       While watching the movies, I couldn't help thinking of my mom and the bit changes of my own personalities that affect somewhat between us. My mom is just like all traditional  Chinese parents who have great ambitions for their children. She hold high hopes for me since I was very little. When I received my grade for final, or even a quiz, the red number on the paper was always lower than she expected. It was just never enough. When you get 80 (let's take 100 as a full score), she would say if you try a little harder, 90 should be shown; When you receive 90, she would expect the full score. As my personal view, Chinese parents love their children as much as American parents, or even I can say, more than American parents. Their way expressing love is being their for us as always. They don't speak love but do it. They hide the love part but show the strict face and attitude to stimulate the potential parts of their children. Yes, we are beautiful apples in their eyes. They just don't understand actually the most important element for planting apples is provide sufficient NATURAL LIGHT!