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The Joy luck club was a book written by Amy Tan. The story is set here in America and in China and is set in the 1940’s and also takes place now. The book is about four Asian women who fled china and their Americanized daughters. There are eight main chara ....

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.... imagining what life in America raising a daughter would be like. Hoping that she would be an American but still have her Chinese heritage. But in the end her daughter turns out to be as Americanized as they come not realizing her Chinese heritage. This makes it so that they don’t communicate very well and makes it so they don’t know very much about each other. This book shows that now days the traditions of the older generations are slowly being filtered out by the younger generations. An example in the book is when one of the mothers had her marriage pre-arranged by her parents and a friend of the family and the fact that she accepte ....