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Jing-mei Woo: Two Kinds
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Kweilin
Jing-mei Woo: Two Kinds
Jing-mei Woo: The Joy Luck Club
Chungking
Jing-mei Woo: The Joy Luck Club
Jing-mei Woo: Two Kinds
- Suyuan Woo formed the Joy Luck Club in Kweilin as a diversion from the horrors of war.
- One day, an army officer visited Suyuan and suggested she travel to Chungking to be with her husband.
- Suyuan knew the officer’s message meant that the Japanese would soon arrive in Kweilin, and she knew that the families of officers would be the first to die.
"Anitra's Dance"
by Grieg
- Jing-mei Woo takes her mother's place as the fourth corner at the Joy Luck Club, two months after her death.
- Jing-mei's mother, Suyuan Woo, started the San Francisco version of the Joy Luck Club in 1949.
- Suyuan Woo formed the first Joy Luck Club in Kweilin, China during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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Rising Sun Flag,
the war flag for
the Japanese
Imperial army
Jing-mei Woo: The Joy Luck Club
Jing-mei Woo: Two Kinds
pleading child
perfectly contented
"See my sisters, tell them about my mother,"
I say, nodding. "What will I say? What can I
tell them about my mother? I don't know
anything. She was my mother" (Tan 40).
- Suyuan packed her children and some belongings into a wheelbarrow and began to walk to Chungking.
- The journey was long, and Suyuan’s hands began to bleed from carrying her bags. Finally Suyuan, like others before her, was forced to lighten her load by leaving items behind.
- Suyuan was eventually forced to abandon her two daughters as well.
Suyuan Woo vs. Lindo Jong
"Auntie Lin and my mother were both best friends and arch enemies who spent a liftime comparing their children" (Tan 37).
Jing-mei Woo vs. Waverly Jong