The Joy Luck Club
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Evelina Pooriler Critical Listening Self-assessment #1 The Joy Luck Club is about the experiences of four women who emigrated from China to the United States. Each woman's story contains horrendous experiences in China and shows how those experiences affected their relationships with their America born daughters. This movie shows us something about the culture and history of China in the early 20th Century focusing on the mistreatment of women. It also explores the relationships that Asian-American women have with their mothers and the relationships between girls and their mothers in general. The first scene was about a girl who was sold as a wife to an Emperor. This girl was very unhappy been in this marriage. At some point she wanted to kill herself, other times she screamed and tried everything to get out of this marriage. She wanted to get of this marriage because she did not want to be controlled. We...

