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Summary: This is an amazing book!
Review: I read this book for my speech and debate class. Laura Wood told me it was really good, so I decided to take her advice and read it. I thoroughly enjoyed this book! The stories of all the people were extremely sad, but really good. Some of the people reminded me of my grandma and my mom(even though they're not Chinese, but that's ok). So, I think ya'll should read this book!
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Summary: deep
Review: I just read this book, and I loved it! It's about four Chinese mothers and their relationships with their Americanized daughters. There are chapters from everybody's point of view instead of just one narrator, and that really helps you get a better understanding and view of the story.
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Summary: Very touching
Review: This book is terrific. It touched my heart in a great way. The book has a great story line about a group of four friends. How their lives were, their struggles in life, and how they try to make their daughters keep the Chinese traditions in their lives. Each woman led a pretty difficult life. But yet they still came out of it, stronger than before.
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Summary: The Joy Luck Club:book review
Review: "In America I will have a daughter just like me. But over there nobody will say her worth is measured by the loudness of her husband's belch. Over there nobody will look down on her, because I will make her speak only perfect American English. And over there she will always be too full to swallow any sorrow." This was one of the many thoughts that four Chinese women had when coming to America. They all came looking for a better life and a better future. This book takes place in San Francisco around the 1970's. The four women from China, Suyuan Woo, An-mei Hsu, Lindo Jong, and Ying-ying St. Clair, form the Joy Luck Club. The Joy Luck Club is a gathering of four women, and each week, one of them hosts a party to raise money and they eat special foods that bring good luck. Then they would play mah jong and whoever won got the money. This was their way of keeping their spirits up through their hardships. This was also what brought Jing-mei "June" Woo, Rose Hsu Jordan, Waverly Jong, and Lena St. Clair, together. A problem that they all share is that since the mothers were born in China and the daughters were born in America, there is more of an inability for them to communicate with each other. The mothers have the tragedies of their childhoods in China in their memories, and the daughters have lived safe and comfortable lives when they were children. This difference in background also helped in the lack of understanding between them. Throughout the novel, all of them recall events in their lives and the lessons they learned from those events or from the people around them. They recall big turning points in their lives that changed them and helped to make them the people they are today. In recalling these events and the lessons they learned, they deal with similar problems in their present day lives and grow as individuals. This book was very well written and it is a good example of how people can learn from the past. No one should dismiss this book because they think that it's a book for Asian people to read. The relationship between the mother and the daughter and the lessons they learn can be applied to any culture. The book was a little hard to follow at first because it jumps around to different people a few times and it's easy to get the people and the stories confused. Something that might help is stopping before each chapter and looking back at the previous stories as a reminder of what else has happened to the person in their life and to help keep the individual's stories separated. Also, look at their mother's/daughter's story to help tie that family's history together. The author did a great job of tying the different stories together. Each person's story was different enough to keep the reader interested and allow them to discover new things, but they were also similar enough to make sure that the stories related to each other and helped to achieve the same purpose. From reading this book, a person could take the things that the characters learned and apply it to their own life. A person could also gain a little more understanding of another culture and also the differences between two generations.
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Summary: An Amazing Experience
Review: In school, my Language Arts Honors class participated in a book group project, where we were divided into groups of 4 to read and discuss a book in 9 meetings. I was assigned to Joy Luck, and absolutely loved it. It weaves in and out of 4 girls and their mothers, each sharing experiences in their lives through a breathtaking story format. The stories will make you laugh, cry, and will always make you think. You will definitely find a character who reminds you of yourself, and enjoy it all the more for that very reason..ideal for both genders and anyone above age 13, it is a truly wonderful source for your admiration and love of books.
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Summary: Ordinary
Review: Tan's attempts to portray the relationships between these mothers and daughters. ....is nothing short of dismal.
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Summary: Joy Luck Journal
Review: Once able to differentiate between the various narrators, this novel is nothing but a joy to read. It is beautifully written and may even make the reader re-examine their own relationships. This novel explains the struggles that four mothers from China experience while raising their daughters in America. Torn between traditions new and old, the reader is made to feel apart of the women's lives and left always wanting more. This book is guaranteed to keep the interest of anyone who picks it up.
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Summary: Joy Luck Club: Journal #6
Review: Amy Tan cleverly explores the fragile relationship between mother and daughter in her novel, The Joy Luck Club. Each story is truly heartfelt and is connected intricatley with the others. Even with such a difficult subject, Tan is able to pull all the pieces together and make sense out of it. Thus, giving every woman a deeper understanding of her own mother and the hope of reconciling. Thank you, Amy Tan!
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Summary: CSU Pomona ENG 105-23
Review: The Joy Luck Club is a book that anybody can relate to. Although most people don't have to deal with being the chess champion or a lower class wife, we can relate to the simple family problems that they all dealt with. The generation gap between the Chinese mothers and their "American" daughters was insightful especially with how they dealt with their problems. The daughters couldn't understand their parents just the same way that we can't understand ours. After reading this book, it made me realize the intricate workings of my family and how one little thing can have an adverse affect on the entire family. This book was great and I recommend it to anybody who would like to understand themselves or their families.
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Summary: ENG 105 #18
Review: I hate reading but this book mesmerized me from the begginning till the end. Amy Tan did a great job in keeping reader "hooked" wanting to know more about each cheracter in the story. She also did a great job in detaling the generation/culture gap that occured in the story. I really liked reading this book, it is the first book in a long time where I give up computer gaming time for.Moms and daughters of the book struggled through differnt things brought up by the "gaps", but at the end you'll find a triumph endying that'll put a smile on you for quit some time.
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