Joy Luck Club

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Term Paper Title	Joy Luck Club
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Joy Luck Club

I decided to watch the Joy Luck Club for this analysis paper  for many  different reasons.  The main reason is that the actress Tamlyn Tomita who played Waverly graduated from Mount Lebanon High School, which was also my high school.  I also heard a lot about this particular movie.  I have heard great reviews and I have also heard very bad reviews saying that is was really confusing and long.  I wanted to watch it and decide how it is in my own opinion.  Watching this movie I saw a lot of  interpersonal communication between mother-daughter relationship.  As I watched this movie I picked up a lot of Devito’s points that he makes throughout the book.
     There was a lot of family problems throughout the entire movie on many different levels.  Reading back through Devito’s main points I see a lot of  examples that were shown in the movie.  This movie expressed Devito’s traditional, independent and separate views within a family relationship.  Some of the daughters followed the traditional views, which is where they share many of the same views and do very little on there on.  It seems like in the movie the older generation (mothers) where very traditional and stuck with the family values and followed their mothers around.  As the mothers had children they seemed to be more independents and stress their own individualism.   According to Brommel Galvin the characters in the Joy Luck Club are both rigid and enmeshed.  I believe this because at dinner they were all eating together and everyone was on time.  No one was missing because it was a known fact that you show up for dinner at a certain time.
Communication was a big part in this particular film.  The mothers all had some trouble at one time or another communicating with their daughters.  The mothers were very dominate in this movie.  They told their children what was on their minds and they were the first ones to talk in most of the situations.  They used a lot of nonverbal patterns.  An example of this is when June was talking to her mother in one of the last scenes.   June was upset because she thought that her mother was not proud of her accomplishments.  June was crying and her mother without saying anything made it obvious that she was proud of June.  June’s mother used very simple ways of communicating with June.   She accomplished it this by looking at her and comforting  her by holding out her hand.  June’s mother gave June a necklace that was a symbol of her love for her daughter...

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