joy luck club
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In Amy Tan's first novel "The Joy Luck Club", each chapter tells a different story between mothers, who grew up in China and daughters, who grew up with the American culture. The result is, that each daughter developed different lifestyles that their mothers had planned.
The Chinese culture believes in the strength and the weakness of the animal in the Chinese calendar. For example the statement of Ying-Ying St. Clair "I was born in the year of the Tiger. It was a very bad year to be born, a very good year to be a Tiger." Every animal has its own character and the person is marked with those for the entire life. The tiger is gold black and -the black sides stands still with cunning, hiding its gold between trees, seeing and not being seen, waiting patiently for things to come. In addition, the American culture has no value for the calendar, so Clifford St. Clair doesn't care that he changes his wife's name to Betty and her birth year to 1916 instead of 1914...