There is a saying that your dinner table is crowded when breaking bread with your significant other. The reasoning is you are also, without knowing it, also having dinner with their parents and their parent's parents. That will make for a rather cramped dinner experience.

We forget that the behavior of our partner or close friend did not begin today. It may have started a long time ago by the way they were raised and maybe even the way their parents were raised.

Watch the three scenes below and take note of the influence prior generations have on the present one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu_1vtF-D2s

(Joy Luck Club (Apartment and Dinner Scenes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5_plpwmi-4&t=1s

(Clip of the Joy Luck Club "best quality heart")

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAl92QvEfDQ

(The Joy Luck Club 1 online video cutter com)

After you have watched the videos, answer the questions below:

1. . Explain how the acorn doesn't fall far from the tree applies in 1 chosen scene.
2. What does your answer to question 1 tell us about human relations in general
3. List and briefly describe any of the 7 irrational beliefs observed.
4. One of the scenes shows a powerful catharsis following a tense emotional exchange. Describe what it was.
5. In your own words, what is the takeaway lesson we can gather from what you observed?