Book: The Joy Luck Club

Book: The Joy Luck Club
Author: Amy Tan
Chapter: Rules of the Game Waverly Jong

Significance:
This chapter is about how Waverly’s mom puts pressure on her to win every single game of chess she plays. She uses her to “shows off”. Because like in this case many parents use their children to “shows off” some times to make them accomplish some thing they never could have themselves. I think is really wrong because even though we love them doesn’t mean they could take over our lives we could do what we want NOT what they want.

Perspective:
Amy Tan, the author is Chinese. This book has a lot of Chinese traditions. In this chapter all the Chinese rules for chess, and tricks. It also shows how a girl from San Francisco China town lives.

Evidence:
Waverly just started playing chest for fun then she started studying and finding out why those are the rules of the game it got so big in her neighborhood that some on invited her to Local chess tournaments. Her other let her go and she started winning in all her games. So her mom watched while she found out new tricks to win games. Her mom made her brothers do all her chores while she practiced and every Saturday she goes with her mom to the market and her “shows off”, every person that stays looking at them she tells them “This is my daughter, Waverly Jong.” One day she tells her mom that she doesn’t like it when she does that and her mother misunderstands Waverly gets mad and runs away from them later when she gets home her tells her “We are not concerning this girl. This girl have no concern for us.” Waverly goes into her room and figures out her next move. I think she is talking about life how you have to keep figuring out your move to keep moving forward.

Connections:
There have been many kids that they do a sport for fun then their parents see how good they are and they pressure them so the kids quit. That has never happened to me (I think), like almost every other kid they still do pressure on us that we do well in school and our work and every thing. But somehow parents have past the line when they start pressuring you and you get stuck to do what you love but be pressured or quit.

Supposition:
I think life would be better for kids and won’t pressure us any more and maybe there will be fewer conflicts in the family. Or if you could change part of the problem them change the part where they pressure sure they could help out so you could turn out to be the best! But not make their dream keep it as yours.