Joy Luck Club

In the first chapter of the Joy Luck Club, one of the main characters, Shuyun Woo tells her daughter a story with many different endings. Each time that she told her the story, she had a different ending to it.

The first ending talks about how she and three other women  started the Joy Luck Club. They all were in this club to support each other and they stuck together during the hard times. Although people would criticize them for being so happy at a hard time, they still went on with their club.

The next ending that she told her daughter was that at  the Joy Luck Club meetings, the four women used to play a game and when she won money from it, she bought a cup of rice that she turned in to porridge. Then she had two feet from a pig that turned into six eggs. and from those six eggs became six chickens. June said that the story seem to always grow more and more each time.

The final ending to this story took place in Kweilin where Shuyuan was with her first husband and two babies. This was when she told her daughter, June what really happened in Kweilin.When her husband was an officer, she stayed at home, while the Japanese were trying to take over. A man who worked with her husband showed up at her door one day and told her to flee. She listened and took with her only two bags and her children. The two bags had food and the other had clothes. When she was running away, her hands began to get bloody, so Shuyuan Woo decided to let the bags go. After her arms were tired of holding her two babies, she had to let them go as well.

The message that Shuyuan Woo is trying to send to her daughter, June Woo is that she should be grateful for all that she has and that she should not be complaining about anything. Shuyuan Woo had to sacrifice her babies for her to make a better life for herself in America.

Chinese Parents

Why Chinese Mothers are Superior by Amy Chua

Chinese parents can get away with things that Western parents can't. Once when I was young—maybe more than once—when I was extremely disrespectful to my mother, my father angrily called me "garbage" in our native Hokkien dialect. It worked really well. I felt terrible and deeply ashamed of what I had done. But it didn't damage my self-esteem or anything like that. I knew exactly how highly he thought of me. I didn't actually think I was worthless or feel like a piece of garbage.

so basiclly they are saying that asian parents are really strict. even though people may not agree with their method they have a reason for what they do. they want their kids to do good and not mess around in school. right here in this qoute it makes it clear how by asian parents telling their kids to do good and school and know they are capeble of getting lower than a A makes it less hurtful when they call theis children trassh.

Asian parents have lots of faith in their children so  this is why the kids know how much their parents care about them. So overall is good that the Asian have high expectations of their kids.

Quickwrite

Some of the main similarities between Animal Farm and Tunisia were that both revolutions were inspired by a cause or an action. Animal farm was inspired by the speech given by Old Major, while in Tunisia, the revolution was inspired by the man who lit himself on fire. Also in Animal Farm, the animals all heard about the revolution from Old Major. He was the reason for there to even be a revolution. While in Tunisia the word got around by Facebook and Wiki Leaks. So both revolutions spread out in different ways.

The similarities that they both had was the fact that they got both inspired by somethimg or someone. For example in Animal farm Old Major inspired everyone with his speech,

"Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself. Our labor tills the soil, our dung fertilizes it, and yet there is not one of us that owns more than his bare skin. You cows that I see before me, how many thousands of gallons of milk have you given during this last year?...”

This part of the speech shows how Old Major is talking about the problems that the farm animals have. Also how they can do something about the humans who are mistreating them and treating them unfair.

In Tunisia, the fact that the man lit himself on fire and the reason why he did this was because he wanted to see a change in his government was what made people think. It made them think how that guy did not just burn himself for nothing, but for something that is affecting everyone. When more and more people started to hear about what this guy did is when the revolution slowly started to build up. Slowly and slowly more and more people started to realize how they all want to see a change in their government as well. So basically the guy who lit himself on fire was who inspired the revolution.

Old Major was like the guy who lit himself on fire because they both inspired people to start a revolution.

chpt 11 collab. Andy Tsang

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