Joy+Luck+Club

A novel by Amy Tan Made up of several short stories centering around four Chinese women and their daughters Meet the four women of the Joy Luck Club: @NORTH @SOUTH EAST @WEST

=__**"The Joy Luck Club"**__= __**NOTES BY SAMANTHA G.: TYPED BY: MIA B.:)**__ __**PICTURE BY DANIELLE M.:**__
 * 1) June's mother came from China to give her daughter a better life.
 * 2) June took her mother's seat at the Mah Jong table, who died of a cerebral aneurysm.
 * 3) June's parents came to China with only a trunk of silk dresses.
 * 4) June has relatives in Vancover she has never met.
 * 5) Kweilin is was crowded new, and people are getting sick easily.
 * 6) The Joy Luck Club is a gathering of four women from different backrounds, they would each hold parties each week to raise spirits and raise money. They would serve food that meant something.
 * 7) Mah Jong had to be played in silence and seriousness.
 * 8) The parties were for forgetting the bad things that are happening outside their door.
 * 9) June's mother was told to leave Kweilin, four days after she left she was killed in the town.
 * 10) She walked with a wheel barrel, two and clothes to Chung King.
 * 11) June is 36 and is always late.
 * 12) The Joy Luck Club doesn't pray Mah Jong for luck they invest in stocks.

=__**"Scar"**__= __**NOTES BY COLIN O.: TYPED BY: MIA BRAUD:)**__
 * 1) Popo is the grandmother
 * 2) Lived with aunt and uncle
 * 3) Popo told stories
 * 4) Father passed away
 * 5) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Unhappy childhood
 * 6) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Aunt had a bad temper with the children
 * 7) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mother was labled a "ni" or traitor
 * 8) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Mother came back
 * 9) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">An-mei got the neck scar from hot soup when she was four
 * 10) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The scar she received was very severe
 * 11) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The mother came back to try and help Popo
 * 12) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Popo died

PICTURE BY DANIELLE M.:

=__**"The Red Candle"**__= <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Notes By Colin O'Brian, Typed By Samantha Gallagher:) PICTURE BY WILL PICTURE BY DANIELLE M.: =__**"The Moon Lady"**__= __**NOTES BY:STEPHEN P.: TYPED BY: MIA BRAUD:)**__ PICTURE BY DANIELLE
 * ====<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">She is scared people will forget her. ====
 * ====<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">She cannot choose her husband. ====
 * ====<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Old village matchmaker visited her when she was small. ====
 * ====<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Pichi means temper. ====
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> She had to marry Tyan-yu.
 * ====<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">After she was set for marriage, her family acted like she wasn't their own. ====
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">She didn't want to marry anyone.
 * ====Heavy rains destroyed the family's crops and home; without the crops money the became broke.====
 * ====From being broke the had to move.====
 * ====She had to live with the Haungs. (Her "spiritual family").====
 * ====Separated from her family at 12 years old====
 * ====Haungs were untouched by the water damage.====
 * ====The house had a story for each generation and each one was mad differently.====
 * ====Twenty other people lived in the house.====
 * ====She was treated as a servant.====
 * ====Her future husband was jerk.====
 * ====She began to assimilate to the Haungs.====
 * ====Because of the Japanese no one came to the wedding.====
 * ====Harsh weather came upon to wedding, which was a bad sign====
 * ====She renewed faith in herself when she saw how grown up she was in her red ceremony dress====
 * ====She can never divorce or remarry for the pride of her family.====
 * ====She blew out the candle and made a huge lying plan up to annul the marriage, while keeping her family and her own pride.====
 * 1) The walk Mah has taken away interaction in the family.
 * 2) The temperature and humidity was really bad and hard to get to sleep.
 * 3) A Mah is a a care taker "servant" and helps protects her while she sleeps and burning the five evils. ( lizard, spider, snake, centipede, and scorpion)
 * 4) Leha st. Clair is 4 years old and is allowed to go to Mooh festival.
 * 5) Lena to make a wish of something you want Leha has to first make an offering to the mooh and bow and think about what she wants but if she says it out loud and becomes a selfish desire.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1 .She was six year old when her mother taught her the art of invisible strength. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2 .A guy asked to take a picture of them but told them to move to capture something. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Her mother named her after the street they live on ( waverly ). <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4. She got a box of lifesavers candy for Christmas. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">5. Her mother and brother explains the rules for the game of chess. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">6. She studies the game of chess and practices until she she couldn't lose a game but then she didn't have any opponents left to play. PICTURE BY DANIELLE M.:
 * __<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"The Rules Of The Game" __**


 * __<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"The Voice From the Wall" __**
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Things she see's that others can't was, the devil dancing, and the eyes of lightning.
 * 2) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">When she was describing the house, she described the doorway like a neck that has been strangled. kitchen faces the toilet room, and the house was built too steep.
 * 3) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Her father didn't worry as much as the mother, and he explained that it's the mothers way of practicing her nesting instincts.
 * 4) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Her mother was so worried because she was having a baby.
 * 5) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The first night, Lena heard sounds and arguing. After hearing the argument, she was now listening to a women getting killed.
 * 6) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"But the next night, the girl came back to life with more screams, more beating, her life once more in peril. So it continued, night after night, a voice pressing against my wall telling me that this was the worst possible thing that can happen."
 * 7) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Lena continued to see bad things in her imagination, but found ways to change them.

1. Rose watches her mother An-Mei sweep around the white leatherette Bible, once her mother's, but now used to prop up a table leg 2. Rose thinks about how to tell An-Mei that she is getting divorced from her husband, Ted Jordan 3. She knows her mother will tell her to save the marriage, but she knows she can't 4. Rose remembers back to when her mother "lost her faith" 5. Bing, the youngest, dies... drowns 6. The next day they return to the beach and look for him. This is when she loses faith. 7. An-Mei records Bing's name in pencil in the white Bible <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">-HER MOTHER USED TO CARRY A SMALL LEATHER BIBLE WHEN SHE WENT TO CATHOLIC CHRUCH <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- rose has a good relationship with her mother <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- HER MOTHER WANTS HER TO FIGHT THE DIVORCE <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- ted told his relatives that she was his girlfriend <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- she told his mother that she doesn’t have any intention on marrying her son <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- his mother is racist & ignorant <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">- ted was upset she wanted to stop talking to him because of what his mom said to her PICTURE BY ERIC C.:
 * __<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">"Half and Half" __**

=__**"Two Kinds"**__= NOTES BY: TYLER S. TYPED BY: SAMANTHA G. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">PICTURE BY ERIC C.: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">
 * Lindo Jong daughter Walverly is a excellent Chess player.
 * Shirelly Temple was a prodigy child.
 * her mom criticized Jing Mei for her hair style or something else that she would do.
 * Jing Mei started talking back to her mother because she really wasn't good at a lot of things.
 * Jing started to get practice with her piano skills.
 * & she found out her teacher was blind and deaf so she tricked him to think she was good.
 * she had to do a recital for her family and did horrible.

=__**"Rice Husband"**__= __**NOTES BY: TYLER S. TYPED BY: MIA B.**__
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ying-Yang's special ability is she can see the bad and good things that happened.
 * 2) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The rice bowl told ying-yang that every grain she doesn't eat will be a pock on her husbands face.
 * 3) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Her mother thought that ying yang was the one who had cause Arnold to die.
 * 4) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Ying's husband had problems was keeping the money separate would help the relationship.

=__**"Four Directions"**__=

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1 .Notes coming soon.... PICTURE BY DANIELLE M.: =__**"Without Wood"**__=

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1. PICTURE BY ERIC C.:

=__**"Best Quality"**__= __**NOTES BY: DESTINY G. TYPED BY: ERIC C.**__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1. A fter they celebrated the Chinese New Year, Jing-Mei's mother gave her a pendant on a gold chain. 2. Jing-Mei saw that a bartender was wearing a pendant and asked him who gave it to him. 3. Jing-Mei knew that the bartender had no idea what the pendant really meant. 4. The people that lived in the apartments are coasting her money. 5. For the New Year celebration, Jing-Mei's mother invited all her longtime friends. 6. Jing-Mei realized that her mother didn't kill the cat. 7. The cat started to rub on the window and she tapped on the window but the cat just hissed at her.

PICTURE BY DANIELLE M.:

=__**"Magpies"**__= NOTES BY: COLIN B. TYPED BY: ERIC C. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1. An-Mei has scars from the hot water <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2. An-Mei left with her mother <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3. The new house was really big and nice <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4. An-Mei's mother killed herself <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">5. She felt ashamed she bothered her mother

PICTURE BY COURTNEY C.: =__**"Waiting Between the Trees"**__=

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1. In China the guest bedroom would be like our American bedroom for the master bedroom <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Ying Ying St. Clair feels as tough her Daughter is drifting away from her <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Ying Ying feels her house will break into pieces " <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">4 . When Ying Ying was younger she was vain" <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">5. She was named "Ying Ying" because she was like a clear reflection of her mother <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">6. Ying Ying was wealthy, her house had many rooms, jade jars was cigarettes, jewels and carved ivory <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">7. she married a bad man <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">8. She was once wild & also innocent <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">9. Ying Ying had half sisters from her fathers coqubein <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">10. Ying Ying felt that boys were not good enough for her and that others put thoughts into her head <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">11. Ying Ying know she was going to marry a man before she formally met him <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">12. Ying Ying feels she was better than her daughter <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">13. Ying Ying started to do anything just to please her husband <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">14. Ying Ying wants her daughters tiger spirit to be "loose" PICTURE BY DANIELLE M.: =__**"Double Face"**__= Notes by: Colin O'Brien Typed by:Samantha Gallagher <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">* Waverly wanted to go to china for her second honeymoon, but she thought she would blend in too well. Her mother disagrees. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">*Waverly did not want to learn Chinese when she was young. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">*her mother believes she doesn't act Chinese <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">*her mother blames herself for trying to mix two cultures <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">*Waverly wants her mother to get a hair cut, buy her mother dosent want to. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">*she thinks that Waverly is ashamed of her looks <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">*Rory points to how much Waverly and her mother look alike <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">*this displeased Waverly and her mother sees herself and Waverly's' grandmother <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">* Waverly's mother has her told by Waverly's grandmother. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">* When Waverlys mother first arrives she pays a girls for tips in serving in America. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">*some of the tips were about what to tell people you are studying to earn respect. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">* another was what to write on forms <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">* the girl also said to find an America husband <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">* If her husband isn't a citizen the the should have a kid <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">* Waverly tells the story on how her mother came to America. PICTURE BY ERIC C.:

=__**"A Pair of Tickets"**__=

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1 .Notes coming soon....