1. In the parable that begins “Feathers from a Thousand Li Away”, where does a Chinese woman decide to immigrate?
2. Before she leaves Shanghai, what does she buy from a vendor? (Hint: the vendor tells her that it was once a duck.)
3. How did the duck become [the answer to #1]?
4. As the woman sails to America, what kind of daughter does she dream of raising?
5. The woman plans to give her daughter [the answer to #1] as a gift. But what happens when she arrive in America?
6. For many years the woman wants to explain the symbolic meaning of her gift but holds back. Why? (What’s she waiting for?)
7. Jing-mei opens her story. How did Jin-mei get to take her mother’s place at the Joy Luck Club?
8. Jing-mei tells her mother’s story about the club’s beginning. What kind of job did Suyuan’s first husband, Fuchi Wang, have?
9. What threatened the family? (Why did the family move to Kweilin?) (Hint: there were an external reason and an internal one.)
10. Why did Suyuan created the Joy Luck Club with three other women during her stay in Kweilin?
11. What activities did they do at the club?
12. The origin of the club’s name: “And [at each meeting], we could hope to be _______. That hope was our only ______. And that’s [why we called]… our little parties Joy Luck”.
13. How would Jing-mei’s mother’s story normally end?
14. But one evening, her mother told her the story’s real ending. Briefly describe this ending.
15. In the real ending of her story, why was she forced to leave her items behind?
16. By the time Suyuan arrived in Chungking, what item was she left with?
17. With whom had Suyuan always compared Jin-mei? Why does she feel inadequate?
18. Just as Jing-mei is about to leave, her mother’s friends sig her down and tells her some important news. What is it?
19. They have received a letter from China in response. What do the club members want Jing-mei to do?
20. What does Jing-mei doubt?
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