Analysis of Three Communication Events In “Joy Luck Club”

Student’s Name Professor’s Name Course Date Analysis of Three Communication Events In “Joy Luck Club” The Joy Luck Club is a novel written by Amy Tan in 1989 the novel vividly presents the theme of Chinese Immigrant families in San Francisco who started a Club known as the Joy Luck Club. The club’s whose business is based on playing of Chinese Mahjong game for money and variety Chinese food faces some barrier in the communication. However, the paper examines how interpersonal communication is reflected in the three communication events as depicted in the novel. The four mothers and the four daughters share a complex and unique relationship in the novel. Besides, the two being tied by the cord of the family. The mother shares a deep fear of hope and culture that is directed to some specific group of individuals if not to everyone. The novel narrates a story about the four Chinese daughters and their four mothers; the daughters are born and raised in America. The story depicts personal life the relationship of the mother to her daughter. The story is narrated into four sections as the last, and Jing tells the first story and then the third and second story is told by the four daughters. Both the four mothers have four episodes as well as the daughters except Jing who appears in both of the four sections. The communication between the family is marred by several communication events three of them being: language, generational barrier as well as the Americanization of the daughter. Letting her mother puzzled in a sea of hatred and total confusion as she cannot manage to communicate with her daughter. The daughter, therefore, feels that the mother is old-fashioned and thus she fails to pay much attention and listen carefully to the mother who cannot communicate in English that the daughters speak. A parable relating to the game precedes the book which is divided into sixteen chapters with three mothers and four daughters where one mother by the name Sayuan woo who dies before the novel opens, share a story about their life in the form of Vignettes as each part. Many of the daughters do not fully understand the Chinese dialects. Of their mother thus making some of their mothers to struggle with the English wholeheartedly. The English communication barrier and events begin with the case of the St. Clair's family. The group which is further splintered as the husband Clifford, Ying-Ying's husbands and Leas father are not fluent in Chinese and Lea's mother Ying has a rough mastery of the English language this brings a difference in Clifford's family thus, bringing a language barrier in the communication of the members of the family. The Chinese dialect of the mother, therefore, begins its breakdown right from the children. Due to their mother's influence. During the mother and the childre...