Joy Luck Club Analysis

The Seder is a family gathering feast that the Jewish families went to. In the intro of the book Hannah says “I am not hungry. I ate a big dinner at Rosemary’s. And I do not want to go to the Seder. Aaron and and I will be the only kids there and everyone will say how much we have grown even though they just saw us last months” (3-4).

I found it very boring because she would drone on at some parts and I had no interest in the book after reading the first few chapters. The way she wrote the book was interesting. There are three different narrators and during those parts you fill in more pieces of the puzzle and they all converge in the end to create a big picture. I liked that she used foreshadowing a lot. She foreshadowed who the killer was, that Marn was going to kill her husband, and that Evelina liked girls.

Thoreau had many visitors while he was at Walden Pond (“Thoreau’s First Year”). Henry was not fond of money either (Encyclopedia of World Biography). One of Henry’s passions was to write. His works usually concerned nature (DISCovering Authors). Thoreau was thought of as cold and many people disagreed with his thoughts, but this is did not stop him from writing.

In Michael Hollinger’s play entitled Naked Lunch, the author uses sexual undertones to imply the nature of a relationship between two characters. The two characters featured in the play are Vernon and Lucy respectively, and while they seem to have broken up in the recent past, their lunch was going well. However, as their lunch continues, Vernon notices that Lucy is not eating the steak he prepared for their meal and is only nibbling at the corn. This seems to strike a chord with Vernon and he asks her simply “What’s wrong with the steak?” (989). Lucy assures him that there is nothing wrong with her meal, and confesses that the reason she doesn’t wish to eat the steak by saying “I’m a vegetarian,” (989).

Famous fashion designer Alexander McQueen “came to terms with not fitting in a long time ago… [He] never really fitted in... [He doesn’t] want to fit in.” “Fish Cheeks”, a short story by Amy Tan, is a short memoir concerning Amy, an Asian American embarrassed by her family’s cultural antics. When her family invites the mayor’s family to a Christmas dinner, Amy is repulsed and disgusted by her family’s rude behavior until her mother tells her to embrace who she is. The author of the short story utilizes sensory detail and indirect characterization to show that one will find it difficult to become something they are not. Sensory detail is a vital way authors show a story’s theme to the reader. For instance, Amy nauseatingly describes how

“Dark trees in the landscape of love” by Kao Kalia Yang is reading about the lives of Hmong girls married white men and how their lives are different. Kalia Yang started the story talking about his nephew preference for black trees, not bright trees, showing that all colors of the trees are beautiful not just the bright ones. Then she talks about his husband and when she first saw his husband, she never taught to marry him. Aaron used to hear her given the public speech and one day he sends her an email inviting for breakfast. She accepted for lunch and they met at the Hmong restaurant, but it was just a casual meeting to talk about work.

When Alma (the waitress) returns with the mans (Reynolds Woodcocks) meal, he asks her out to dinner where she obviously says yes. At this point the catalyst, the thing that puts the plot in motion, is set. At this point the viewer is forming central questions such as, “Who is Reynolds and what are his intentions?” or “How far will this relationship go?” At this point a narration begins from the waitress Alma. She isn 't giving away any plot, as she is just describing to us her emotions in the moment of her waiting for Reynolds to pick her up. When

I was happy with the Ace Books outcome, but the time wasted I was definitely not. I will have to make this up, but it was a long while that I could have used to be writing. I would have had more time to write, but the family issues were getting very bad. Many people I knew were passing and I had to attend the

Literary Analysis of The Joy Luck Club In The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan states, “My father has asked me to be the fourth corner at the Joy Luck Club. I am to replace my mother, whose seat at the mah jong table has been empty since she died two months ago” (Tan 19). The Joy Luck Club’s setting is in present day San Francisco and flashes back to China. Writing this novel Tan experiences many emotions. The reader receives various emotions while reading this book from examples given by the author.

I’m not someone who likes first person narrative, because I prefer different perspectives on the characters. Also different POVs would’ve made the book way more interesting. Another problem is that Feyre is actually not good with words, she only has a general education but nothing more, since she had to go hunting rather than reading. Still, she manages to describe her surroundings with such remarkable words, that she can’t know if she really is not that educated. This was bothering me a lot, because it was making the narration

“Honey... what do you think?” “I think it 's horrendous.” She spat. “By touching these new sheets of paper, it 's worse than death. It 's just slavery.” (Dickinson) “Papa... not to interrupt you and mother... but what exactly is the Stamp Act?” Asked my 15-year-old daughter, Sarah. “I 've heard rumors, but I haven 't the slightest clue of what it is.” I opened my

On the other hand, she did not make the theme comprehendible and easy to understand. Bethany Wiggins needs to work on giving more hints and clues on the theme and lesson of Stung. The author also did not maintain her consistency throughout the book; I lost interest during the second quarter of Stung. Bethany Wiggins did a great job with the book and I would recommend it to anyone of any age. Although there were a couple of errors throughout the novel, Stung was a great