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The Joy Luck Club is a book that presents a conflict between Chinese immigrant mothers and their American-born daughters who have different language and culture. Mothers want to share their past with her daughters and daughters try to understand their mothers’ pasts with understanding the difference.
I chose to write a letter because it is an appropriate text type that can express one’s opinion to give the advice of problem that daughters have and effectively convey one’s thought with the evidence. I wrote this letter from the perspective of friend of Rose, An-mei’s daughter, after hearing the news that Rose’s husband, Ted asked to divorce and Rose told her mother about it.
I wrote this letter because it seems like Rose didn’t accept her

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