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Summary: Journal #6
Review: This book was truely a wonderful reading. The poetic language and use of unique and unusual similies and metaphors was delightful. This is the story of the lives of 4 women and their mothers, who happen to be imagrants from china. The story documents the most difficult and interesting times in the lives of both mother and daughter and how they learn to understand one another. Or at least how the daughters learn to understand their mothers.
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Summary: A great description of an Asian American's family lifestyle
Review: This book was enjoyable to read because the author used lots of simple dialogue to familiarize the reader, while ahe also used a lot of descriptive words to allow the reader to fully actually "see" the settings and scenes of the story. The novel had a lot of beautiful metaphors and at times also had a sort of poetic tone to it, but it also had simple dialogue to tone down the mood so the reader could relate to the different stories. Overall, I could relate to all the stories perfectly well as an Asian American myself, so I thought it was pretty accurate and it was beautifully and simply written. The only negative thing about the novel would be that sometimes you could get mixed up with all the different stories.
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Summary: For Witt-HI
Review: The Joy Luck Club is an excellent book, it deals with how assimilating into American culture can divide families. This book deals with young women coming into a consciousness of who they really are by learning more of and exploring their past. This book was wonderfully written, a masterpiece of work. Marcus Beard-Cal Poly Pomona
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Summary: Join the "club," this book is a "joy" uh... with "luck"
Review: I found The Joy Luck Club very enjoyable. Tan portrayed the generation gap between parent and child very accurately. As a first generation Asian American, i related to this book very well. I like how the story was structured, although it can get confusing if you're not careful. I recommend this book to everyone. It has appeal that will interest every age group.
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Summary: #10 CSU Pomona ----Journal 6-----
Review: I thought the Joy Luck Club was a decent book. It was a bit confusing at times because you forget who's who sometimes but other than that it had some interesting parts in it. The mothers and daughters go through a lot of difficult times. Each mother and daughter have their own stories which make the book a little more interesting. If all the stories were lumped together, I don't know if I would call it a decent book. It has a lot of situations in which many people can relate to. It allows people of different cultures to appreciate how the daughters feel about their mothers and also the other way around. Overall this book was decent. It's not a book that I would personally recommend to people but having read it, I think it was an enjoyable book.As a matter of fact I think I will give it 4 stars instead of 3.
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Summary: It was a Joy reading this novel
Review: I read this book in Multi-Cultural Literature class. I think that Amy Tan is a truly gifted writer with a unique way of opening our imaginations to her world. This novel has 8 main characters. It's about 4 chinese women who came to America and how they have to change their ways. The other 4 chinese women are their daughters born in America. Each chapter is one of the characters point of view and their life story.Ying Ying St. Clair: After being left by her first husband, marries her second husband who is an american. Lena St. Clair: She is the daughter of Ying Ying. She is having marital problems with her husband Harold. Who wants to be treated equal. They have their own money and they split it down the middle. Linda Jong: At a young age was in an arranged marriage, she later makes up a story that her in laws ancesters would be angry if she bare her husbands Child. Waverly Jong: She is named after the street in which she lived in. She became a champion at chess, and realizing that it isn't so fun anymore. An-Mei Hsu: She was raised by her Grandmother because her mother, although was alive was considered a "ghost" because she remarried after her first husband died. She has to decide whether she wants to leave with her mother after her Grandmothers death, or stay with her aunt and her brother. Rose Hsu Jordan: She is dealing with her husbands divorce. She is fighting to keep the house that they both had lived in. Suyuan Woo: She was the one who started 'The Joy Luck Club'. She decided to have 4 women gather around once a week, and eat a big feast, and laugh and talk about good times all through the night. Jing Mei Woo: After her mother's death, she must go to China and meet with her long-lost twin sisters. I definetly give this book an A+. Don't think that I've told you everything. That is not even the beginning. Not only are you enjoying a good book, but you are learning about Chinese Culture. I've said this many, many times, but this book is a "must" read...
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Summary: WRHS Students Dazzled by the Joy Luck Club
Review: In The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, we see the cultural differences between the lives of eight women. Four of them are mothers who grew up in China and later immigrated to the United States. The other four are their daughters who were born in America, and raised in a deep forest of American Culture, but they are nearly oblivious to their mothers' mysterious pasts. Tan Focuses on the vast differences between Chinese and American Culture, which focuses deeply on the generation gap between mother and daughter. The mothers all have stories to tell. Usually, they have to do with honor, and tradition, whereas all that the daughters care about is men, money, and "ice cream." The mothers and daughters often have their fights or conflicts about how things should be done or treated. It is a story that many women and their mothers relate to. Even though they are different in many ways, the mothers and daughters are very much alike. It just takes a little bit of communication, cultural bridge walking, and an exclusive thing called The Joy Luck Club for them to realize it. We recommend The Joy Luck Club to anyone who likes to read about different cultures, mothers and daughters, or to people who just want to read a good book. We guarantee you a variety of emotions when you read The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan.
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Summary: Joy Luck Club is Great!
Review: The Joy Luck Club is a wonderful blend of Chinese history and American lifestyle shown through the eyes of four mothers and four daughters. Intertwined by the club, the eight women share their stories of childhood, adulthood, and the life in between. Amy Tan uses charactersÕ memories to take the readers back to past experiences and pains, vividly displaying the differences in Chinese and American customs. The daughters donÕt understand many of the things that their mothers are worried about. Things like a slightly tilted house, or a wobbly table are not among the things that the daughters find important; as Chinese women, though, these are critical observations to their mothers. Miscommunication brings conflicts and confusion into the story many times. In one of the families, the mother marries an American man. He often doesnÕt know what his wife has just said because she mostly speaks in Chinese. In other situations, too, the daughters translate for their mothers who donÕt know the English word. This only widens the gap between mother and daughter. With age, some of the gaps were bridged. As children, the girls saw their mothers as confusing, and sometimes paranoid. The mothers saw thier children as disobedient Chinese girls who were rejecting their heritage, and not as growing American citizens. They soon realized that the other one was only expressing what they had learned from where they grew up. While the mothers want their daughters to be happy in America, they also refuse to let them forget their Chinese heritage. Amy TanÕs Joy Luck Club is simple and straightforward, but donÕt let it stop you: through this simplicity lies undetected meanings, bringing mystery to the characters and complexity to the book.
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Summary: my review
Review: I really enjoyed reading this novel. At times I thought it was a little difficult to understand but the ideas expressed in the novel were great. My favorite scene is when one of the mothers tells her daughter that it is a waste of time to cry because it just gives the person you are crying over joy or satisfaction. That is only a tiny idea in the book, but this book is filled with a lot of thoughts and ideas to consider. THere are a lot of family ideas throuhout the novel that can be very interesting to read as well as informative. I would definitely recommend this novel to anyone. It is also much better than the movie.
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Summary: ENG105-#15
Review: The Joy Luck Club was an enjoyable book. It gave me good insight on how the old traditions conflicted with the new ways. The mother and daughter relationship was tested to the extreme, which i can relate. I however, found the book hard to keep up with because it changed moods and scenery often. Overall, the book was good but the movie was even better.
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