Back to category: Miscellaneous

Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper.

Chinese – American Fortune Cookie

Crack! The shell of the fortune cookie drops to the floor of the restaruant and the white scrap of paper is being read repeatidly until it to is carelessly lost to the floor. Floating through the air, trying to hold on to the last bit of life before it reaches the trenches of the restaruant floor, wishing the ink upon it spelled out a sentence that the owner would have liked to have heard. Instead, it was brushed away because the cultural and symbolic traits that were spelled out were not recognized by the owner. In the novel The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan explores significant issues of Chinese culture and their influences on the lives of four pairs of mothers and daughters.
The structural format of the novel was planned very strategically by Amy Tan and is portrayed in such a manner of finesse, the reader must learn to recognize the structure and to solve the structure’s puzzle. An important key to The Joy Luck Club is its "tying in" of each families' story. The north, south, east, an...

Posted by: William Katz

Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper.