My Views on Amy Tan's Joy Luck Club
Amy Tan's novel Joy Luck Club is viewed by some as discriminating, unjust, etc. but I think otherwise. Why? Being an Oriental, I have seriously experienced racist behavior from my own kind. That doesn't give them the right to criticize Americans if that's the case. Racism of any kind is WRONG3x! I just thought of the whole novel really made sense on the following truths in the novel: Many Chinese males have a record of being abusive to their spouses. Chinese parenting can sometimes reach to its extremes in terms of authority that there is NO real give and take. Authority is more abused than used properly. The Chinese mother-in-law is a dreadful image that is passed from mother-in-law to daughter-in-law. Disowning of children is common. Women can end up in the extremes too. Freedom and authority fall out of balance with the characters. And how true indeed. Certain characters are just really real. For example we have Lin Xiao and Wu Tsing as the evil males. Lin Xiao w...