women has her own view of the world based on her experiences in China and wants to share that vision with her daughter. As she grows up, Jing-mei and her
mother often struggle to understand each other. Not only Jing-mei but all of the daughters Waverly, Rose, and Lena try
to understand and appreciate their mothers pasts, adapt to the American way of life, and win their mothers acceptance. Jing-mei and her mother never completely
resolve their differences and problems, and Suyuan dies unexpectedly. At the next meeting of the Joy Luck Club, her mother’s friends tell Jing-mei that Suyuan’s
twin daughters have been found. They give her a check so she can visit them. As the novel ends, she meets her twin sisters in Shanghai. This novel also
describes how the relationship between the mothers Suyuan, An Mei Hsu, Lindo, and Ying-ying with their mother. It tells their past experience about family
especially with their moms. Most of them have bad experience and bad example of family, which could be the cause of the bad relationship between them and
their daughter.
B. Approach of the Study
In analyzing the work, I apply the approach that helped me found out the answer to the problem. In this study, I used sociocultural approach. Acccording to
Rohrberger Woods Jr. 6 – 15, sociocultural approach deals with the reference of social and cultural background of literary work. The critics of this approach
believe that it is necessary to investigate the society and culture in which a work was created.
Every people have their own culture. Cultural conflicts happen in the society. Because sociocultural approach is approach which deals with society and
culture, it is appropriate to use sociocultural approach in this study. Sociocultural approach is used to analyze the effects of the cultural conflicts on the mother-
daughter relationships.
C. Method of the Study
I used some procedures. Library research was used in gathering data. A collection of articles, journals, critical essays, and other available printed matters
were gathered from libraries as well as electronic resources. Amy Tan’s The Bonesetter’s Daughter and The Joy Luck Club serve as the primary or main data.
Other sources were collected to gain data and facts on Chinese culture. Some of the secondary sources are most on the books of culture especially in Chinese one
like Theories of Culture in Postmodern Times by Marvin Harris and Under the Ancestors’ Shadow by Francis L.K. Hsu and the books of sociology.
There were some steps that I did in doing this research. First was reading the novels, which are The Bonesetter’s Daughter and The Joy Luck Club by Amy
Tan. Second was deciding the subject would be discussed mothers-daughters relationship which affected by Chinese culture. Third was formulating the
problem formulation. Forth was finding the theory and preferences. Fifth was deciding the method. Sixth was analyzing the problems related to the theories,
preferences, and evidences from the two novels. Seventh was answering the problems using the method.
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