Joy Luck Club Motifs + Symbols and meaning Questions and Answers

Joy Luck Club Motifs + Symbols and meaning Questions and Answers Sleeping Beauty Popo/Nuyer/An-Mei/Rose TURTLE - TEARS - SWALLOWING TEARS - LEADS TO OTHERS HAPPINESS Popo/Nuyer/An-Mei/Rose MAGPIES Popo/Nuyer/An-Mei/Rose, An-mei. Swallow up tears. SAPHIRE RING Popo/Nuyer/An-Mei/Rose, sacrifice like flesh from her mother to popo PEARL NECKLACE Popo/Nuyer/An-Mei/Rose OPIATES -OPRIUM/SLEEPING PILLS Popo/Nuyer/An-Mei/Rose, power BOUILING SOUP Popo/Nuyer/An-Mei/Rose DROWNING - FLESH IN SOUP, RING IN OCEAN, ROSE IN SLEEPING PILLS Popo/Nuyer/An-Mei/Rose SCARS Popo/Nuyer/An-Mei/Rose, TOUCH BRINGS BACK FEELING POPO, NUYER BOTH CARESS THE WOUND TABLE WITH BIBLE UNDER LEG Popo/Nuyer/An-Mei/Rose, keeping the family in balance and how Bing is still recognized... Does this as a sacrifice, AN ACT OF FAITH FAITH-FATE Popo/Nuyer/An-Mei/Rose, GARDEN - WEEDS - WITHOUT WOOD Popo/Nuyer/An-Mei/Rose, Rose. She was delicate like a rose and mistreated by her husband but then she becomes like the weeds in her backyard, rough and strong. MAKING A NOISE Popo/Nuyer/An-Mei/Rose, FLESH - SOUP - CHOU - FAITH WITH MOTHER Popo/Nuyer/An-Mei/Rose, SCARIFICIAL LIFE/DEATH Popo/Nuyer/An-Mei/Rose, RESURRECTION MOTIF - AFTER 3 DAYS, RISE FROM DEAD SLEEP Popo/Nuyer/An-Mei/Rose, ROSE - UNPLANTED - GROWS WILD - UNDER FOUNDATIONS Popo/Nuyer/An-Mei/Rose, DECIDE NOT TO DECIDE IS TO DECIDE Popo/Nuyer/An-Mei/Rose, STAIRS - UP/DOWN - SAME PLACE - GENERATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY Popo/Nuyer/An-Mei/Rose, OLD MR CHOU Popo/Nuyer/An-Mei/Rose, WRONG DOLL - TED Popo/Nuyer/An-Mei/Rose, BING - NON-GOSPEL SON - AMERICANIZED NAME Popo/Nuyer/An-Mei/Rose, HALF EXPECTION, HALF INATTENTION Popo/Nuyer/An-Mei/Rose SUPERSTITION VERSUS FAITH Popo/Nuyer/An-Mei/Rose Shadows (3) Ying Ying/Lena, lost personality Light/dark Ying Ying/Lena Sun/moon Ying Ying/Lena Fish - slippery, gutted Ying Ying/Lena "Death of a thousand cuts" Ying Ying/Lena, FEAR - ANTICIPATORY ANXIETY expecting the worst Therefore - always seeing the dark side (shadow) of life Table/vase, the vase splitting in half Ying Ying/Lena, marriage of lena and harold. Lena knew it would happen... YY- then why didn't you stop it? Dogs - men Ying Ying/Lena Ghosts Ying Ying/Lena "Saint" Ying Ying/Lena Imbalance Ying Ying/Lena Tiger - gold and black stripes Ying Ying/Lena, Ying ying. Hides in the shadows and moonlight which create stripes on her, making her look like a tiger, which also symbolizes the freedom and fierceness in her. Identity issues: loss of self, becoming a ghost, feeling powerless, without a voice Ying Ying/Lena Finding power: in the shadows and in the light Ying Ying/Lena Transference: giving self to another, for good or bad Ying Ying/Lena, Lena feels mom's Death of 1000 cut pain - empathy Voices through walls Ying Ying/Lena, Symbolizes wall between American and Chinese tradition (physical wall between Lena and her American neighbor Teresa). Also a wall between life and death and how the dead come back to haunt people. Also the wall means the light and dark side (the shadow) Triangulation: Lena translates for Saint and Ying Ying, ultimately, Ying Ying will translate sorrow and shame for Lena Ying Ying/Lena, LENA changes mom's words to make Dad feel better & to hide mom's secret Therefore, Lena is the POWER BROKER - PARENTIFIED CHILD - in family - RED CANDLE Lindo/Waverly, fate of marriage FALSE DREAM Lindo/Waverly