The Joy Luck Club

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Summary: Being half-Chinese...
Review: ...but born here in the United States, I found myself relating all too well with this book. Amy Tan has done what I had previously thought was impossible: getting me in touch with my asian heritage and allowing me to forgive my mother for our many differences.

She writes with such beautiful sensitivity to all of her characters, it is impossible not to get addicted to all of her work!

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Summary: The Joy Luck Club
Review: i enjoyed this book because it was very interesting, and i could relate to this book myself. I thought it was cool how an-mei discovered all these secrets about her mother while she was in the joy luck club. It was interesting what an-meis mom had to go through her life time, especially how she left her twin daughters just laying on the side of the road like that. I think that i really liked this book because it really reminds me of my grandma, an-meis mother is similar to my grandma. Overal i really liked this book.

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Summary: Seeing through the eyes of Generations
Review: I really enjoyed the traditions and cultural aspects that the author included in the Joy Luck Club. The way the stories were split apart by mothers and daughters made you feel like you know each character more personally. The theme of storytelling and translating in the book was clear throughout, and really pulled the book together as a whole. by the end of the book you get used to the stories jumping around and begin to enjoy the way its written. I do feel the book would have been a five star book if the authour could have included more of China's history regarding the World War that takes place in the book.

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Summary: needing help
Review: ive just finished reading this book and now have to write an essay discussing the effects of the past on the present in relation to two mother-daughter pairs in the book. but i find it hard to relate their past to the present, because i think amy tan didnt build up each person's own character strong enough (this is probably because i only read the shortened version). so i dont know how to show how the past changed or built up their character (except that i knew ying-ying behaved like a ghost because she had a bad husband, and rose lost her confidence after the death of her youngest brother).
so if anyone would like to help or discuss with me, please email to: [e-mail]