Communication is the heart and soul of our society. We communicate in everything we do, from buying a cup of coffee to presenting a project at work or school. Since we express ourselves every day having a primary language used in that particular region is very helpful by reducing and preventing language barriers to some extent. As we express ourselves every day we often use metaphors to explain ourselves, some of these expressions are not translated correctly or simply cannot be translated. In The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan there is not only a language barrier but also a cultural barrier between mothers and daughters and the meaning of “Joy Luck I believe”. that, although it may be difficult, everything can be translated if not with words, but through actions and character. To prove my point, the stories prove particularly powerful in The Joy Luck Club because of the cultural and linguistic barriers that stand between the narrators, who are often mothers and daughters. Due to the fact that the mothers grew up in China and...