The theme of abandonment in Kitchen God's Wife and Joy Luck Club One of the themes included in both The Kitchen God's Wife and The Joy Luck Club is that of abandonment. In The Kitchen God's Wife, the character Winnie Louie is abandoned by her mother when she was a child. In The Joy Luck Club, Suyuan Woo must abandon her twin daughters on the road while fleeing war-torn China. In The Joy Luck Club, Suyuan Woo is forced to abandon her twin daughters on the side of the road in a desperate situation. take action to give them the chance to live. All her life she is haunted by this memory: when the street calmed down, she tore the lining of her dress and stuffed jewelry under one child's shirt and money under another. She reached into her pocket and pulled out photos of her father and mother, the photo of herself and her husband on their wedding day. And on the back of each he wrote the children's names and the same message: "Please take care of these children with the money and valuables provided." When it's safe to come, take them to Shanghai, 9...