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The baby in the story represents truth, as opposed to the starkly contrasting nature of the stories in the book, each own persons truth becomes distorted. The baby, when drowned, represents the symbolism of truth "dying" at the hands of the woman, and thus the muddling of stories that occur.
When she,(the main character, not the baby) finds herself fighting her sister for the demons tablet, the tablet represents power, and dominance. Since we all know demon tablets lead to nothing but danger and trouble, we can assume the tablet in this story represents all the problems the girls in the book face, and their ensuing struggle over the tablet, represents the interior conflict raging inside each one of them. When the Dragon ( see page 177) attacks the city, we know this dragon represents the greif felt by the women, thus the making of the Joy Luck club, to defeat the evil dragon (E.G. their grief and problems).
When Xiang uses her shadow meld ability on the dragon, this obviosly entails the "coming of age" she must deal with, when fighting her own personal demons. After the ninjas attack pearl harbor however, the book takes a sweeping turn, and instead switches narrative to the men of the story, which solely focuses on being a badass chinese pirate, and kicking lots of ass.There is no symbolism in that part of the book, because pirates are too bad ass to be "symbolic".
Near the tail end of the book, when the massive dinosaurs attack the island the Joy Luck club has made, and disrupt the kung fu practice of Jiang-wong ( see page 344). Jiang-wong, as a character who loves morals and all kinds of wacky asian voodoo crap, he obviously represents mysticism, and stuff. WHen jiang-wong or whatever kills the evil mutant dinosaurs this represents the holocaust in germany in 1940 uhhh something. I dont remember the year but i know it was forty something.
Anyways, when the dinosaurs get killed by jiang-wong, its similar to the holocaust in that Hitler killed jews, and then made up lies about it. Jiang jing chinky guy, makes up lies to the Joy Luck club, because he wants to secretly clone the dinosaurs and use them to take over Japan. This is clearly represented by Marxism, and i needn't explain it to you because it is very obvious.
At the end, when Jiang-Wong and the Joy luck club fight to the death at the Jade temple, its very similar to the lightsaber duel at the end of "Return of the jedi, Directed by George Lucas", because it was super bad ass and kung fu is sick. Although I am sure Luke Skywalker could totally ruin Jiang-Wongs shit if they fought. But when Luke and Jiang fight at the end, and then the dinosaur clone eats Luke, this represents something that happened that was very similar to my uncle Jim.
Me and my Uncle and my dad would go fishing during the summer, i caught this fish, it was fucking huge, we cooked it and ate it for dinner that was bad ass. My total ownage of that fish is similar to how Luke owned jiang. Oh yeah! the Joy luck club got killed by a dinosaur too, or something...i think maybe they got crushed by a star destroyer or something. In the end when they all dance and have the orgy at Jabbas jade temple, it describes an image of a pheonix, in a bush...which represents life or some shit like that.
In conclusion, the book the Joy Luck Club is pretty cool, but not as cool as Star wars. |
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