Relationships in the Joy Luck Club The Joy Luck Club is a depiction of the enduring tensions and powerful bonds between mother and daughter in a Chinese society -American and is written by Amy Tan. The book illustrates the difficulties that the mother and daughters go through to please each other. It also shows the problems girls face when growing up in two cultures. This book reveals that most of the time, mothers know best. Through all of Jing-Mei Woo's stories, June must remember all the memories of what her mother told her. She remembers how her mother abandoned her babies during the war. June's mother felt that since she had failed as a mother to her first babies, she had failed as a person. When she forced June to take piano lessons, June thought she was trying to make her a child prodigy like Waverly, but her mother did it because she knew it would benefit June for the rest of his life. Due to the death of her mother, June was forced to take her mother's place in more than just occupying her place at Maj Jong's table. The mother-daughter tradition was broken as the lost babies were found after their mothers died. June's trip to China can be seen as the fulfillment of her mother's promise to return, honoring her sisters by attempting to transfer what she had absorbed from her mother and her tradition. And I think my mother is right. I become Chinese (Tan 306). That's what June thinks as she enters China. Like the Taoist Yin/Yang symbol, June and her mother have become two of the same. The only difference being their thoughts, June with the American, her mother with the Chinese. This kept the mother-daughter tradition alive, but also weakened it. This happens often, but there is always something that sticks and is passed down from generation to generation. Heredity is the transmission from one generation to the next of factors that determine the characteristics of offspring. Although successful breeding of plants and animals was practiced by humans long before the establishment of modern civilizations, there is no evidence that these early peoples understood the nature of hereditary factors or how they are transmitted through reproduction . June and An-mei's story is a great example of heredity. Although many girls' worst fears are becoming like their mothers, it can't be helped in many ways. June was slightly hesitant to be more like her mother but, in the words of June's mother, An-mei, "there's nothing we can do about it" (Tan 306). June's hesitation can be seen in a quote referencing her mother's statement about a certain heredity: "And when she said that, I saw myself transform like a werewolf, a mutant DNA tag was suddenly triggered, recurring in a syndrome, a group of telltale signs. The Chinese behaviors, all the things my mother did to embarrass me..." (Tan 307). Whether these traits manifested due to constant exposure to her mother, or whether they were simply genetic , DNA codes by which June's life and habits would be determined, one thing, in this case, is certain: daughters and mothers look alike. This can be seen in everyday life, and Amy Tan describes. and beautifully exposes this fact in his portrayal of the stories involving June and her mother..