Joy Luck Club Outside Reading Packet

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Across
  1. 2. Pleasing and fortunate.
  2. 6. Having a sharply strong taste or smell.
  3. 9. A member of a gang that ambushes and robs people in forests and mountains.
  4. 13. Founder of the Joy Luck Club
  5. 14. Having a pleasant or sweet smell.
  6. 16. A large branched candlestick or holder for several candles or lamps.
  7. 17. A long, narrow cut or depression, especially one made to guide motion or receive a corresponding ridge.
  8. 18. Lost daughters representing hope and reunion
  9. 20. Waverly's mother
  10. 22. Symbol of unrealized dreams carried across cultures
  11. 24. An imitation diamond used in costume jewelry and to decorate clothes.
  12. 29. Object reflecting identity and self-perception
  13. 30. Intensely irritated and frustrated.
  14. 32. Protect oneself against loss on (a bet or investment) by making balancing or compensating transactions.
  15. 33. Passive wife whose failing marriage forces her to finally assert her own voice
  16. 34. An inhabitant of a parish, especially one who belongs to or attends a particular church.
  17. 37. Fill with air and swell outward.
  18. 39. Lasting mark tied to a childhood lesson in strength
  19. 43. A ghost or ghostlike image of a person.
  20. 44. A covered litter for one passenger, consisting of a large box carried on two horizontal poles by four or six bearers.
  21. 46. (Of hair, threads, smoke, etc) fine; feathery.
  22. 47. City where the original club is formed
  23. 48. Cultural enclave bridging Chinese and American lives
Down
  1. 1. Bad-tempered and uncommunicative, especially on account of resentment.
  2. 3. War-torn Chinese setting of an origin story
  3. 4. A tall, slender-leaved plant of the grass family, which grows in water or on marshy ground.
  4. 5. Tile game symbolizing fate and storytelling
  5. 7. A claim, especially a false or ambitious one.
  6. 8. A particular form of a language which is peculiar to a specific region or social group.
  7. 10. A sitting room in a private house.
  8. 11. Having rough, sharp points protruding.
  9. 12. A small picturesque cave, especially an artificial one in a park or garden.
  10. 15. Cycle of life, suffering, and rebirth alluded to in themes
  11. 19. Form (hair or other material) into a plait or plaits.
  12. 21. American-born daughter of Suyuan
  13. 23. A deciduous Chinese tree related to the conifers, with fan-shaped leaves and yellow flowers. It has a number of primitive features and is similar to some Jurassic fossils.
  14. 25. Short moral story embedded in each narrative
  15. 26. Dinner symbol revealing pride and self-worth
  16. 27. Of the cerebrum of the brain.
  17. 28. Woman raised on imbalance who repeats it in a marriage built on strict equality rules
  18. 31. A tuft of loosely hanging threads, cords, or other material knotted at one end and attached for decoration to home furnishings, clothing, or other items.
  19. 35. A pair of eyeglasses having lenses with two parts with different focal lengths.
  20. 36. A decorative curl or twist in calligraphy or in the design of an object.
  21. 38. Instrument representing pressure and failed expectations
  22. 40. Chess champion who clashes with her mother
  23. 41. A large undulating mass of something, typically cloud, smoke, or steam.
  24. 42. A liquid made of shellac dissolved in alcohol, or of synthetic substances, that dries to form a hard protective coating for wood, metal, etc.
  25. 43. Daughter who learns strength after her mother sacrifices herself to gain respect in the family
  26. 44. A summerhouse or other decorative building used as a shelter in a park or large garden.
  27. 45. Mother who believes she passed her inner “tiger spirit” to her daughter after a traumatic past