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The Joy Luck Club Journal Entries by Alejandra Camargo Feathers From a Thousand Li Away Jing-Mei Woo: The Joy Luck Club: Jing-Mei â€Å"June† Woo was asked by her father to replace the fourth corner of the Joy Luck Club which was her mothers spot. Her mother â€Å"Suyuan Woo† died about two months ago from a cerebral aneurysm. Joy Luck Club was an idea her mother had in Kweilin from her first marriage but when her mother came to the United States she started the San Francisco version in 1949. June started going into a flashback about the story her mom used to tell her of her time in Kweilin. Her mother said she dreamed about Kweilin she thought it was a beautiful place were you cannot have any worries at all but when she arrived there she realized how dilapidated her dreams were. Kweilin had strange but yet beautiful things, however her mother did’t come for that. She was brought there because the man she was married to was part of the Kuomingtan and thought that her and their two children were going to be safe from the Japanese. The city they were staying at was full of people f rom different places which didn’t even get along. During one very hot summer night she thought about an idea to have four women, each at one of the corners of her mah jong table. Each week they would cook up a feast and eat. After eating they would go to the mah jong table and play but with seriousness, the women found their happiness through winning. They would stay up through the night until theShow MoreRelatedMother Tongue767 Words   |  4 Pagesto the first language learned at home in childhood. In this case, I think it has a literally meaning, it refers to her mother tongue in specific. 5. In paragraph 20, Tan quotes a â€Å"terrible line† from an early draft of part of her novel The Joy Luck Club. 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