Wednesday, November 30, 2011

The Joy Luck Club


The Joy Luck Club
By Jaime, Bella, and Vicky
The book I am reading is “The Joy Luck Club” by Amy Tan. It is about four different stories and relationships between daughters and mothers. I really recommend people read this book because it is stories about immigrant family and their experiences. In the beginning it’s very confusing because it starts talking about the Chinese culture and the way of life in China. Before the four mothers immigrated to United States with their bad experiences in China, but they came with a lot of hopes to start a new life. Their daughters were born in the U.S, which it makes them different from their mothers and as they growth they experience cultural crash. I like some parts of this book because they have some myths like when Suyuan Woo and her family went to the beach, and her little son drowned in the beach. After the police didn’t find the body, her mother came with a Chinese bible to pray to the Chinese gods. This book remained me of some parts of my life. For example, as I immigrant I felt things Jing-Mei’s mother felt when she arrived to this country. I know it’s very hard for immigrants to start a new life.

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