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The Joy Luck Club

The Joy Luck Club

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: An amazing and rare peek into the powerful Chinese culture!
Review: I am a 12 year girl who read this book at ten, and have read it 4 times since! I find something more profound each time, such as humility, obedience, etc. It has given great interest in Chinese culture, and has inspired me to write my own story of a Chinese family. Absolutely Spellbinding! (Callie Collins)

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: This novel made Amy Tan one of my favorite authors.
Review: When I first started this novel, I had already read one of her other books. The Joy Luck Club definitely put Amy Tan on the top of my list. The only disappointment is that she hasn't come out with more novels!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Based on a story about life experience.
Review: This story is about the life experience among the ladies in the story. Amy Tan explained how the life in China was like, for an example when a young lady who has to marry an eight year old boy. Another story about this other lady who's husband who had cheated on her without giving any care. She was so devasted about this and that she accidently drowned her baby. There is a lot more exciting story that happens in this book. But I don't want to ruin it for you. So I really recommend you to read this book. I rate it a 10 out of 10!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Joy from reading The Joy Luck Club
Review: This novel is about the cultural differences that Chinese American mothers have with their daughters. The mothers are immigrants from China, and the daughters are first generation of Chinese Americans. The book shows the problems that mothers and daughters have when they try to communicate with each other, so there were a lot of misunderstandings between them. I really like the fact that the daughters and mothers come to an understanding of each other at the end. After reading this book, you can understand some of the conflicts that do occur in Chinese American families.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A great book to read.
Review: The book portrays the mental, physical and emotional journey of eight women of two different generations, and though their experiences were dfferent, they shared similar pains and sorrows. Their hidden emotions were only expressed through some form of dramatic or traumatic episodes in their lives. Amy Tan did a great job in comparing the two different generations and the similar pains and sorrows each one had to endure.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Amy Tan's THE JOY LUCK CLUB was completely enchanting!

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Amy Tan's THE JOY LUCK CLUB is an intriguing tale of four Chinese mothers and their American born daughters as they attempt to understand one another despite their background and upbringing.

It is a tale that seems to have been created as a quilt would. All the stories of the mothers have been placed against those of their daughters to form a delicious contrast of relationship and understanding.

Each character has been highly developed and given a sense of familiarity and colloquial distinction. Tan seems to have taken marvelous care in forming the lives of Suyuan Woo, An-mei Hsu, Lindo Jong, and Ying-ying St. Clair. From these characters, Tan gives birth to their Americanized daughters: Jing-mei "June" Woo, Rose Hsu Jordan, Waverly Jong, and Lena St. Clair. Within the lives of these characters and the stories they tell, there exists a struggle to realize who the mothers are and consequently, who the daughters are and accept what it really means to be Chinese.

THE JOY LUCK CLUB is a book one can easily read over and over again and still be fascinated by the rich and colorful tale of how culture stitches relationships together.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: Doesn't look quite Chinese in the eyes of a Chinese
Review: Problem is if a chinese-american tried to write something. She or he never could jump out of their ethnic background and wrote a typical american book. all they could do was writing some half-breed stuff and only made most of chinese feel ridiculed by them. this author was a typical case since she could use very basic english to describe the chinese she could never quite understand at first hand. it's an elementary writing and, the reading only made me feel more disgusting of these so called chinese american writers,because they could only deform and misinterpretate the people who would never be quite understood by a chinese who grew up like a american and could only think like american and in the meantime, trying to think like a chinese and make a living by writing about chinese! the result would be just similar to american writers tried to write about the chinese or japanese, all they could write were ying-yang or zen, now, even chinese kithen god, ma-jian club were implemented...give me a break

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: An American Story of Women
Review: This book made me focus since there were so many characters and each was important. Although I learned about the Chinese culture, being first generation American, not Chinese, I can relate to the experiences of the daughters. The emotional connections between the American-Chinese daughters and China were very desciptive. An excellent work

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Dramatic mixture about generation and culture.
Review: The Joy Luck Club is the story about four mothers and four daughters; four Chinese and four ABC (America born Chinese). Being a Chinese, The mothers passed their Chinese heritage to their daughters. The plot is not strong but you can compose the whole story by the different narration of the caractors. The insight about the conflict of culture in not quite in depth, but that is enough if you just want entertainment. It can be a preparatry reading of another book Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kington

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Amy Tan's Joy Luck Club
Review: This book fully exploits the relationship between the first generation Chinese in America and the Chinese immigrants. This story often depicts the rebelliousness of the Chinese-American children towards their parents because the parents continue to hold onto their traditions. THE JOY LUCK CLUB also shows the misunderstanding the parents have towards their children's actions. After much of the book, the parents either stick to their guns or adapt to their children's decisions. All in all, this book provides a very accurate picture of the modern situation of Chinese-American children and their immigrant parents


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