Across
- 2. Giving up something important
- 5. Daughter whose mother sacrificed everything
- 6. Feeling tied to failure
- 10. Jing Mei’s American name
- 11. Parent who teaches life lessons
- 14. Place where the club meets
- 15. Old customs from China
- 16. Stories from the past
- 17. Hidden stories revealed
- 20. Country where the mothers grew up
- 22. Quiet mother who feels invisible
- 24. Feeling of fitting in
- 25. Way mothers and daughters communicate
- 30. Lessons from mothers
- 33. Feeling that drives the mothers
- 34. Doing what parents expect
- 36. Main focus of the book
- 37. Traditions passed down
- 39. Expectations placed on daughters
- 40. Going against expectations
- 43. What Rose goes through
- 44. Daughter learning to stand up for herself
- 46. Game the mothers play together
Down
- 1. Not expressing feelings
- 3. Child learning independence
- 4. Cultural background
- 6. Mother who started the Joy Luck Club
- 7. Inner power of the mothers
- 8. Goals mothers have for daughters
- 9. Bond between family members
- 10. Daughter who tells the story and travels to China
- 12. Jing Mei’s trip to China
- 13. Daughters’ life in America
- 15. Suyuan’s lost daughters
- 18. Challenges characters face
- 19. Daughter in an unfair marriage
- 21. Who you are between two cultures
- 23. Country where the daughters are raised
- 26. Relationship struggles in the story
- 27. Disagreements between mothers and daughters
- 28. Game Waverly is famous for
- 29. Value expected from children
- 30. Chess champion daughter
- 31. Speaking up for yourself
- 32. Waverly’s strict and clever mother
- 35. Group where the mothers meet
- 38. Mothers and daughters difference
- 39. Feeling tied to success
- 41. Idea behind the Joy Luck Club
- 42. Strong bond between mothers and daughters
- 45. Mothers’ life in China