JLC Crossword

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Across
  1. 1. Object tied to memory and mourning
  2. 2. Motherland symbolizing lost heritage and connection
  3. 5. Repeated act by mothers for their daughters' futures
  4. 8. Rose’s husband who decides their divorce terms without her
  5. 9. Learns to swallow tears after her mother's sacrifices
  6. 11. Woman who lost herself and now wants to help her daughter find hers
  7. 15. Group formed to find hope during wartime and hardship
  8. 17. Movement shaping all mothers’ lives and hopes
  9. 20. A virtue taught in China but questioned in America
  10. 21. Chess prodigy daughter of Lindo Jong
  11. 23. Situation faced by several mothers in youth
  12. 26. Color motif symbolizing luck, passion, and fate
  13. 27. Clever mother who faked her own dishonor to escape marriage
  14. 28. American name of Jing-Mei
  15. 29. Lena's husband who splits expenses down to the penny
Down
  1. 1. Main setting where the Joy Luck Club meets
  2. 3. Daughter of Ying-Ying, trapped in an unequal marriage
  3. 4. A symbol for hidden strength and fierceness
  4. 6. Conflict between generations and worlds
  5. 7. Game the mothers play to bond and tell stories
  6. 10. Symbol of family bonds and memory
  7. 12. Central theme: struggle between Chinese and American self
  8. 13. Founding mother of the Joy Luck Club
  9. 14. Motif showing split identity and deception
  10. 16. Jing-Mei's half-sisters left behind in China
  11. 18. Central source of misunderstanding and pain
  12. 19. Narrator who travels to China to meet her half-sisters
  13. 22. Position of power but also resentment in Chinese culture
  14. 24. Emotional daughter who struggles in her marriage
  15. 25. Motif representing memory, trauma, or things left unsaid