Healing

The Joy Luck Club follows four Chinese immigrants and their daughters. Each mother endured grueling horrors in China, being a child bride, getting disowned by her parents, having to leave behind children, and the death of an infant. The mothers continued to survive, and hoped their daughters would never have to endure what they went through, but in doing so, each mother affected their daughter in negative, unexpected ways. Healing from trauma is something that takes a long time, and you see this in the way the mothers treat their daughters and their hopes for their daughters. Healing is classified as “aims at the cure of disease” but often times, trauma healing is much more than that. But, each pair finds their own way to cure their trauma, and even improving the life of their daughters. All the mothers hope for a better life, something every parent wants for their child, and they do their best. But none of them had ever really addressed the issue of their own pains, and passed them on to their children.