The Joy Luck Club
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Feathers from a Thousand Li Away The Joy Luck Club Part 1, Chapter 2 The Red Candle The Moon Lady The Twenty-Six Malignant Gates Rules of the Game The Voice from the Wall Half and Half Two Kinds American Translation Rice Husband Four Directions Without Wood Best Quality Queen Mother of the Western Skies Magpies Waiting Between the Trees Double Face A Pair of Tickets
Themes
All Themes Mother-Daughter Relationships Storytelling and Tradition Immigration, Language, and Mistranslation Fate and Autonomy Sacrifice Sexism and Power
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Characters
All Characters Jing-mei “June” Woo Suyuan Woo An-mei Hsu Rose Hsu Jordan Lindo Jong Waverly Jong Ying-ying St. Clair Lena St. Clair Canning Woo Clifford St. Clair Popo An-mei’s mother Wu Tsing Second Wife Tyan-yu Amah Rich Schields Wang Chwun Yu Wang Chwun Hwa
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All Symbols Ghosts Jewelry
Literary Devices
All Literary Devices Allusions Dialect Dramatic Irony Flashbacks Foil Foreshadowing Frame Story Genre Hyperbole Imagery Irony Metaphors Mood Motifs Paradox Pathos Personification Satire Setting Similes Style Tone Unreliable Narrator
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