The Joy Luck Club

Creative Essay

NAMES:
● Rodrigo Servin
● Lilly Cope
● Jessica Ambriz
 Instructions
● SHARE the slideshow with everyone in your group.
● WRITE YOUR NAME on the TITLE SLIDE and on EACH SLIDE that you do.
● DECIDE who’s doing what. EACH PERSON needs to do ONE MAJOR
TOPIC.
● DECIDE which creative element you will use: an illustration, a comic strip,
anime, a poem, a rap, a song, or a skit. All formats must be accompanied
by written explanation.
● DECIDE if you want to work digitally or by hand. If you work by hand,
SCAN all your work and INSERT IMAGES to your slides.
● CREATIVELY PRESENT the requested information on each slide. DETAILS
and INTERPRETATION will earn you more points. You can use your notes
and the book.
● TURN IT IN!
 Introduction
Mother: Lindo Jong Daughter:Waverly Jong

How much power should parents have over their children?

Parents have the right to be able to make decisions for their children regarding
the welfare of their children. But they also should not have power over everything
children have the ability to do. When their children are small and still don’t know right
from wrong then the parents should have the power to tell their children what to do
and what not to do. When their children are mature enough and have grown old
enough to what they do and that their actions may have consequences then a parent
should should loses their grip of power on their children and trust that they will be
able to make the right choices when the time comes.

THESIS: What universal truth does the author, Amy Tan, show us through
this relationship?

She shows us how at first it wasn't all good but she was able to make it work
 The Conflict
The conflict between Lindo Jong and Waverly Jong started very early
on. When Waverly was young all she wanted to do was play chess but her
mother was strongly against it.One year for Christmas her brother Vincent
got a chess set.”When we got home, my mother told Vincent to throw te
chess set away.” For years they argued about chess.”It's just so obvious,
it's embarrassing . Embarrass you be my daughter.” Until Waverly quit
chess. Later in life when waverly was older her mother “ruined” her
marriage. Waterley was going to get married to Rick and her mother disliked
Rick and didn't want then to get married. Eventually Lindo was okay with
the idea that they were getting married because Waverly and Lindo had a
conversation that made them understand and forgive each other.
 The Daughter: (Waverly Jong)
● She views things like her mother is trying to make herself look good by bragging about her and she felt
embarrassed and didn't like that , she also views things like she thinks her mother is rude because she feels
like he mother doesn’t like rich.She views things this way because when she was younger she played chess
and she had won many trophies and now she is a lawyer she feels like she’s better.
● She also feels like she doesn't like rich because everytime she talks about him te mother changes the
subject and she also ruined her last relationship and she feels as if her mother might ruin this one as well.
● She wants her mother to acknowledge her marriage with rich.
2 relevant quotes: “Why do you use me to show off? If you want to show off why don’t you learn to play
chess?”(101). “My mother had never met Rich. In fact, everytime I brought up his name- when I said, for instance,
that Rich and I had gone to the symphony-my mother found a way to change the subject” (185).
When Waverley was younger she played chess and she won trophies for them but she didn’t always like that
because her mother would always want to show off that her daughter was talented and then one day Waverly said
that if she wanted to show off why didn't she play chess. Later on in the story she thinks that her mother didn't like
rich because she always found something to not talk about him and she thought that her mother might poison this
relationship like she did with her past one. All Waverley wanted was for her mother to know she was going out with
rich. Then Waverly went to talk to her mother that why didn't she acknowledge her and rich that why was she trying
to hurt her, but the mother kind of told her that that was her way of being sarcastic that that's how she expresses
herself that that's how her way of being. At the end of the day the mother actually liked rich and they got used to
calling each other stuff and telling each other stuff just for fun, lets just say they ended up getting along.
Insert a creati
piece that
 The Mother: (Name)
● The way the mother views things is way different to the way the daughter views them as well.
For example she's very proud, like shes proud and shows off what she did not achieve and
instead waverley did
● This becomes a bit of a problem just because they aren't her achievements and waverley
doesn't like what she says and how she say like if she achieved them.
● She views them this way because since waverly is her daughter she thinks she can get credit
for her achievement since she's the one who brought her to this world but it shouldn't be like
that.
● What she wants from her daughter is to be the best she can so that she herself can keep her
pride and so she feels good of having such an amazing daughter.
“I could see out of the corner of my eye that she was standing in the doorway”

“My mother would proudly walk with me, visiting many shops, buying very little, she said toInsert
whoevera creative
looked her
way.
piece that
illustrates
In the beginning the mother didnt want her daughter to play chess because she didnt want her to learn any american one
things of
and wanted her to be more chinese. Later on she sees that her daughter starts playing competitive and succeeds in
tournaments bt obtaining trophies. This show she that waverly passion of hess really made her glowthe
in themother’s
sense that she
experiences
can be successful even in an american game. The mother starts showing off her daughter out of pride and this erupts a
conflict between both of them. The daughter ended up quiting chess because she didnt like being the center of attention.
 Resolution / Conclusion

Discuss the following in 3–5 sentences

They begin to see each other as more worthy people after they
understand each other and reevaluate their opinions about each other. We
also see that they were able to accept each other for who they are and the
decisions they choose to make, and the path they decide to walk. We can
learn from this that something may seem impossible but with time they can
be achieved.