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    <title>The Joy Luck Club Group at eNotes</title>
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    <description>The latest discussion, including questions and answers, from the The Joy Luck Club Group at eNotes.</description>
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        <title><![CDATA[Peach Blosson Luck is a love potion, or something that means attracting...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/joy-luck-club/q-and-a/what-peach-blossom-luck-87585</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Peach Blosson Luck is a love potion, or something that means attracting love and romance.
In the story, the mother believes that the mirror which was placed under the bed of the daughter would deflect the love of her marriage (and the romance in the bed) away, and it is considered bad luck. When she placed a mirror above the bed to reverse the effects of the this, she believed that it would bring "peach blossom luck" which is the love luck,...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 4 Jun 2009 12:36:02 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is peach blossom luck from "The Joy Luck Club"?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is peach blossom luck from "The Joy Luck Club"?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 4 Jun 2009 12:13:03 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In "The Moon Lady" of "Joy luck club", ying-ying starts off with this...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In "The Moon Lady" of "Joy luck club", ying-ying starts off with this paragraph and ends with "I did not lose myself all at once".]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 19:35:59 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The Joy Luck Club was originally started as a gathering of four women to...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/joy-luck-club/q-and-a/why-did-suyuan-organize-first-joy-luck-club-72751</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The Joy Luck Club was originally started as a gathering of four women to play mah jong and "to raise money and to raise [their] spirits." The women had these weekly parties to escape if ever so briefly the horrible reality that they saw day to day. "What was worse...to sit and wait for our own deaths...or to choose our own happiness?" With a war going on and death everywhere, these women used their weekly meetings to take a break from reality.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 16:07:03 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Briefly explain how Lindo got out of her marriage without losing faith.]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/joy-luck-club/q-and-a/briefly-explain-how-lindo-got-out-her-marriage-83675</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Briefly explain how Lindo got out of her marriage without losing faith.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 14:18:59 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What does the narrators mother think of America?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/joy-luck-club/q-and-a/what-does-narrators-mother-think-america-75539</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What does the narrators mother think of America?]]></description>
        <guid>http://www.enotes.com/joy-luck-club/q-and-a/what-does-narrators-mother-think-america-75539</guid>
        <pubDate>Thu, 2 Apr 2009 23:10:55 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[who was the servant who raised ying-ying? in the joy luck club?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/joy-luck-club/q-and-a/who-was-servant-who-raised-ying-ying-joy-luck-club-74953</link>
        <description><![CDATA[who was the servant who raised ying-ying? in the joy luck club?]]></description>
        <guid>http://www.enotes.com/joy-luck-club/q-and-a/who-was-servant-who-raised-ying-ying-joy-luck-club-74953</guid>
        <pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:46:08 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What does Suyuan Woo wish she could have done before she died?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/joy-luck-club/q-and-a/there-anything-suyuan-woo-wish-you-could-have-73879</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What does Suyuan Woo wish she could have done before she died?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:25:26 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is peach-blossom luck?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/joy-luck-club/q-and-a/what-peach-blossom-luck-72801</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What is peach-blossom luck?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 03:31:56 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why did Suyuan organize the first Joy Luck Club?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/joy-luck-club/q-and-a/why-did-suyuan-organize-first-joy-luck-club-72751</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Why did Suyuan organize the first Joy Luck Club?]]></description>
        <guid>http://www.enotes.com/joy-luck-club/q-and-a/why-did-suyuan-organize-first-joy-luck-club-72751</guid>
        <pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 20:48:03 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In a story filled abundantly filled with symbolism, Ying-Ying discovers...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/joy-luck-club/q-and-a/what-does-yin-ying-st-clair-learn-about-moon-lady-70687</link>
        <description><![CDATA[In a story filled abundantly filled with symbolism, Ying-Ying discovers that the Moon Lady is not what she seems to be.  An ethereal woman with beautiful long hair on stage, the Moon Lady out of costume is in reality a man, with "shrunken cheeks, a broad oily nose, large flaring teeth, and red-stained eyes".
Growing up in China during the early 1900s, Ying-Ying is a lively, impetuous child who chafes under the restrictions placed upon women...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:49:10 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What does Ying-Ying St. Clair learn about the Moon Lady in Joy Luck Club?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/joy-luck-club/q-and-a/what-does-yin-ying-st-clair-learn-about-moon-lady-70687</link>
        <description><![CDATA[What does Ying-Ying St. Clair learn about the Moon Lady in Joy Luck Club?]]></description>
        <guid>http://www.enotes.com/joy-luck-club/q-and-a/what-does-yin-ying-st-clair-learn-about-moon-lady-70687</guid>
        <pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:40:15 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How can you discribe Jing-mei's charateristic?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/joy-luck-club/q-and-a/how-can-you-discribe-jing-meis-charateristic-69967</link>
        <description><![CDATA[How can you discribe Jing-mei's charateristic?]]></description>
        <guid>http://www.enotes.com/joy-luck-club/q-and-a/how-can-you-discribe-jing-meis-charateristic-69967</guid>
        <pubDate>Mon, 9 Mar 2009 23:35:59 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This is a critical moment in the book. The daughter, with this one...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/joy-luck-club/q-and-a/why-suyuan-answer-quot-your-father-not-my-first-57699</link>
        <description><![CDATA[This is a critical moment in the book. The daughter, with this one sentence, begins to understand that her mother had an entire life before she was ever born.
This first husband was completely unknown to the daughter, which came as a complete surprise, as it would to anyone to discover that your mother was married in a different time and place to a different man!
And the fact that she has sisters...twins! out there in the world somewhere is a...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 9 Mar 2009 21:51:06 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Jing Mei's mother thinks she can become a prodigy because she has been...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/joy-luck-club/q-and-a/why-does-jing-mei-woos-mother-think-she-can-become-64957</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Jing Mei's mother thinks she can become a prodigy because she has been watching clips of Shirley Temple, a young girl who was a famous actress well known for her singing and dancing abilities.  She believes that because Shirley Temple can be successful, her own girl, Jing Mei, must be able to as well.  She even goes so far as to cut her hair in a bob-cut, making it look terrible, just to have her daughter resemble the famous actress. ...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:45:47 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why does jing-mei woo's mother think she can become a prodigy?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/joy-luck-club/q-and-a/why-does-jing-mei-woos-mother-think-she-can-become-64957</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Why does jing-mei woo's mother think she can become a prodigy?]]></description>
        <guid>http://www.enotes.com/joy-luck-club/q-and-a/why-does-jing-mei-woos-mother-think-she-can-become-64957</guid>
        <pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:20:04 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Kweilin was reputed to be a very beautiful city, with "jagged peaks...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/joy-luck-club/q-and-a/why-does-kweilin-lose-its-beauty-for-suyuan-62163</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Kweilin was reputed to be a very beautiful city, with "jagged peaks lining a curving river, with magic moss greening the banks".  In China, "everybody dreamed about Kweilin", but as is often true when something is so idealized, the description was greatly embellished in the telling, and the reality could not measure up.  When Suyuan arrived in the city even the first time, before the war, she immediately saw "how shabby (her) dreams...]]></description>
        <guid>http://www.enotes.com/joy-luck-club/q-and-a/why-does-kweilin-lose-its-beauty-for-suyuan-62163</guid>
        <pubDate>Wed, 4 Feb 2009 15:59:54 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why does Kweilin lose its beauty for Suyuan in The Joy Luck Club?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/joy-luck-club/q-and-a/why-does-kweilin-lose-its-beauty-for-suyuan-62163</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Why does Kweilin lose its beauty for Suyuan in The Joy Luck Club?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 4 Feb 2009 15:28:25 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The terms "hulihudu" and "heimongmong" are Chinese words indicating...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/joy-luck-club/q-and-a/discuss-terms-quot-hulihudu-quot-quot-heimongmong-39745</link>
        <description><![CDATA[The terms "hulihudu" and "heimongmong" are Chinese words indicating confusion.  Rose says that the closest translation for "hulihudu" would be "confused", and "heimongmong" might be best described as "dark fog".  In describing her emotions while working through a painful divorce, Rose realizes she has "been feeling 'hulihudu'", or confused; "everything around (her) seem(s) to be 'heimongmong'", or a dark fog.
Rose's mother once told her...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:09:22 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Jing-Mei had been asked by her father "to be the fourth corner at the...]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/joy-luck-club/q-and-a/why-was-jing-mei-taking-part-joy-luck-club-60085</link>
        <description><![CDATA[Jing-Mei had been asked by her father "to be the fourth corner at the Joy Luch Club", to replace her mother who had died two months earlier.  Jing-Mei's mother passed away suddenly of a cerebral aneurysm; she died "quickly", leaving "unfinished business...behind".  Jong-Mei's father believes that his wife "was killed by her own thoughts".
Jing-Mei's mother had started the "San Francisco version of the Joy Luck Club" in 1949, the year she...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:19:50 PST</pubDate>
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