Chapter One, Dialect, Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club

"They see daughters who will bear grandchildren born without any connecting hope passed from generation to generation".

 -page 41

In the opening of this engaging novel, Jing-mei "June" Woo recalls her mother, Suyuan, who has recently passed. She was the creator of The Joy Luck Club that had originally took place in Kweilin, China. It was meant to be an escape from all of the despair of the Japanese attacks, in order to bring about joy and happiness, if only for one night a week. Suyuan had explained to her daughter that she had lost everything including her first husband and her first two baby girls.She had then traveled to America in hope for happiness. When she arrived she had met other Chinese immigrants at the First Chinese Baptist Church in San Francisco. She saw that they had also had painful pasts and invited them to join in a San Francisco version of The Joy Luck Club. The four women and their families became extremely close. They shared in feasting, in investing in stocks, in playing mah jong, and even in their personal stories. They had a strong connection to one another.

June was expected to take her mother's place once she passed in the Joy Luck Club. At the end of her first meeting the other three women of the club, her "Aunties", told her that her mother's first daughters were still alive. Out of the generosity of their own hearts they gave her money to fly her to China. They want June to tell her sisters of their mother. When June appeared to be apprehensive about traveling to tell of her mother, the members of the club become worried about the relationships they have with their own children. The quote refers to how the mothers are scared that their children do not hold them up with the respect  that generations past have. They do not want to be forgotten along with their customs.
I do not believe that any parent is without the fear of being disconnected from their child once they pass. A memory should last for not merely a moment, but rather forever. Even after my grandmother past away I still think about her each and every day.

The DIALECT in this novel makes it genuine. The members of The Joy Luck Club speak in broken English.An example of this dialect I have chosen is a quote that "Auntie" Ying had said to June.  "You mother very smart lady"(40).