Friday, February 29, 2008

The Joy Luck Club By Amy Tan


The Joy Luck Club By Amy Tan

Significance:
i think this book is mabey one of the best iv ever read if not the best. this book is a very moving story, that revolves around a group of 4 Chinese women and there daughters. each chapter is either from the perspective of the mothers or the daughters and it really demonstrates the character within each of these beings. it also demonstrates how you should never give up and to always believe that there is a way. or at least that's what i took away from it.

Perspective:
this book was written by a Chinese American author, honestly i don't know much about her other than that. this book takes place in all sorts of different time periods and areas of the world but mainly in 1970's San Francisco and 1940's china. so there are allot of different ways of thinking amounts the different characters. and since in the period of this in china the Japanese were invading which put quite a strain on the emotions and made some of the situations allot worse.

Evidence:
i don't believe that the author is trying to make an argument, but a story of the difference between china and San Francisco which are two of the most different places on the earth and its also about these older women who were raised in china and bore all these hardships coming to America and raising children in San Francisco. and i guess if you must need evidence for a fictional story it was very hard to have a life in china in the 1900's and its based off of type of things which are facts known facts.

Connection:
as i said before this takes place mainly in 1930-40's china and 1970's San Francisco. in china during the 1940's the Japanese were invading china and this as a result pretty much starts the story and ends it at the same time. but it was also a hard time two grow up in because of the lack of freedom and the closed mindedness(if that's even a word). it really displays who its a hard place to be, compared to San Francisco. And even in the U.S.A. how there are many injustices.

Supposition:
lets Say that they were trying to come to the USA like in 2008, well that would kinda suck for them unless they had green cards or something because we got coast guard and all sorts of thing y0u show to prove you are a citizen, but even if they did have the stuff it would probably be the same overall i mean mabey they could communicate to each other better becuase of modern day technology but its honestly still pretty much the same , the daughters would mabey be a litle different but the mothers still are from china were its all about working extremely hard because they got like tradition and other stuff.

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

The Outsiders By S.E. Hinton

The Outsiders
By S.E. Hinton

Significance:
i choose this book because i have read allot of books by S.E. Hinton and i thought that they were really well written and had good content. But it dose fol ow the same situation and genre as her other books but out of all of them this one stands out the most. it has a powerful story that is exceptionally well written and has more character connection and setting, also revolving around the cruelty and unfairness of the world but also at the good things but mainly around how some people get sucked into bad situations.

Perspective:
this work was created by some one who grew up in this time period and in a town where things like this happened [on a smaller scale] and she always enjoyed literature so she decided to write books on the problems around her. the book takes place in the 1970's in a place where some bad stuff happened like kids beating each other up and occasionally stabbing each other. she clearly is against the whole idea of poor people and crime, she mainly just has the same themes as the other books except i think that this book is more powerfully written and has more content.

Evidence:
the author as usual isn't trying to make an argument rather a statement, and that is the usual but as i said before the theme is the same she just improved the story to make it more entertaining. the author doesn't really need all this evidence to support her view its proven there is crime in places and violence its obvious [and if you don't belive me get in your cars and drive around east LA at like 1:00 am] so she doesn't really need all this so called "evidence" .

Connection:
this book takes place in the 70's and is a FICTIONAL story ergo the specific event in this story is not effecting us, but issues like crime and violence are and that is still a problem. you could read this book and based on the content you could decide no to go rob a store[or you could use common since]

Supposition:
see the crazy thing about this story is if you turned it around say the rich kids killed a poor kid instead of vice versa, then the entire situation would have changed because no one would really care that some poor kid was found dead rather than a rich kid was found murdered. see they'd probably say murdered instead of dead to make people sad then show abunch of picturesof the kid to get people angry [not saying this happened in the book] but if a poor kid died its one small article.