The Joy Luck Club told by Jing-mei Woo
1. Why was Jing-mei taking part in the Joy Luck Club?
Because her mother had died and she was asked by her father to be “the fourth corner” at the game
2. How many Joy Luck Clubs have there been?
There have been two Joy Luck Clubs.
3. Why did Jing-mei’s mother form the Joy Luck Club in Kweilin?
She formed the club in Kweilin to give herself and some friends a diversion from the horrors of war.
4. Why did the women in the club call it Joy Luck?
Because the women hoped to be lucky, and that hope was their only joy
5. What surprising information did Jing-mei finally learn from her mother’s story about leaving Kweilin?
She finally realized that her mother had left her two daughters behind.
6. How do the people at the San Francisco Joy Luck Club eat?
They eat as though they had been starving.
7. Why did “the aunties” give Jing-mei $1200 in an envelope?
They collected the money so that Jing-mei could go to China and meet her half-sisters.
8. What do “the aunties” want Jing-mei to tell her sisters in China?
They want her to tell her half-sisters about her mother.
9. What surprising thing does Jing-mei tell her “aunties” about her own mother?
Jing-mei tells her “aunties” that she really doesn’t know anything about her mother.
10. What does Jing-mei promise “the aunties” at the end of the story?
She promises that she will tell her sisters everything about her mother.
php手机版下载Scar told by An-Mei Hsu
1. What did An-mei’s mother do to become a ghost?
An-mei’s mother became a ghost by showing disrespect for her family.
2. What did it mean in An-mei’s family to become a ghost?
That everyone was forbidden to talk about the person
3. Why did An-mei’s grandmother say bad things about her own grandchildren?
She said bad things so that ghosts would think the children were not worth stealing.
4. What happened to the greedy girl in An-mei’s grandmother’s story?
She grew fatter and fatter and finally poisoned herself after refusing to say whose child she carried.
5. In An-mei’s grandmother’s story, what happened to the little girl who refused to listen to her elders?
She refused her aunt’s request and a little ball fell from her ear and all her brains poured out.
6. Why was An-mei told never to say her mother’s name?
Because to say her mother’s name was to spit on her father’s grave
7. In Scar, what is the definition of shou?
Shou is having no respect for ancestors or family.
8. What is An-mei’s “know-nothing face”?
It is the face she puts on when she doesn’t want to reveal her true emotions.
9. What does An-mei remember about her mother from when An-mei was four?
She remembers that her mother returned to the family and was chased away the same night after An-mei was burned by the hot soup.
10. After An-mei was burned, what did her grandmother tell her that made her get better fast?
Her grandmother told her that her mother had left and would forget An-mei if An-mei didn’t get better fast.
11. What does An-mei’s mother do to show her love and respect for her own mother?
She returns to her family and cuts off a piece of her own flesh, puts it in a soup, and serves it to her dying mother.
12. In the story, what does An-mei learn from her own mother?
She learns that one’s love and respect for one’s mother is deep within one’s bones.
The Red Candle told by Lindo Jong
1. How did Lindo Jong become engaged to her future husband, Tyan-yu?
A match was arranged through a matchmaker when Lindo was two and Tyan-yu was only one.
2. How did Lindo first become a member of the Huang household?
When she was twelve, her family moved away and sent her to live with the Huang family.
3. What gift did Lindo’s mother give to Lindo as the family moved away?
She gave Lindo her chang, a necklace made out of a tablet of red jade.
4. How specifically did Tyan-yu make Lindo cry the first night she lived in his house?
By complaining that the soup was not hot enough, spilling the bowl as if it were an accident, waiting until she sat down before demanding more rice, and asking why she had such an unpleasant face when looking at him
5. What did Lindo’s mother-in-law instruct the servants to teach Lindo?
She instructed them to teach her to perform a variety of household duties so that she would be a good, obedient wife.

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