Although the book may appear at first glance to be a novel with a bunch of stories woven together, there is much more to the Joy Luck Club than meets the eye. ... This novel is full of meaning and blends aspects of the author's real experiences, history, religion, fairy tale, and tradition to create a novel that is much deeper than it may appear on the surface. ... She used stories of rape, suicide, accidental death, and war- in detail. She emphasized the communication barrier between the Americanized daughters and the mothers who did not speak English very well. ... She does a good ...

• Word Count: 602
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

Can I learn to be so full? ... Josie clearly has an obsession with food and this can be seen in the very first chapter of the book: "That I turn my head and encounter, at eye level, a brown, oily, pimply thing (chicken! ... This quotation taken from the first page makes me think that she is clearly obsessed with food and that she does want to eat some however she cant do it. ... She had a teenage encounter too which she was led to believe she was dirty and that she had brought shame upon the family. ... The word empty coveys how she's feeling, she's empty of emotions she doesn&#...

• Word Count: 652
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

She doesn't seem to second guess her choices because of that confidence. ... " As you can tell by that quote, Lady Macbeth is becoming quite uneasy and somewhat wishes she was the one being murdered instead of being the murderer. ... And thence it is, that I to your assistance do make love, masking the business from the common eye for sundry weighty reasons.... By the end of act three, Macbeth is showing his new strength and using it to his full advantage while Lady Macbeth is slowly starting to slip into her weak future self. ... It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fu...

• Word Count: 1099
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

She also portrays Paul's attitude and personality through the eyes of his father and teachers. ... Paul was sickened of life's reality and refused to have similar attributes of the young men in his neighborhood and, in contrast, emerged himself within an environment full of art and theater obsessively. ... Overall, Cather does a great job embedding Paul's emotions and perspectives within the reader's eye. ...

• Word Count: 851
• Approx Pages: 3

During the 30-second ad, he does not break eye contact with the camera and commences his monologue directing ladies where to look, "Look at your man, now back to me, back to your man, now back to me.... " The series of unrealistic and non-logical events show how unachievable the portrayed man is and mocks the materialistic perspective of what a woman wants from a man like owning a yacht, buying her tickets to what she wants, and showering her with diamonds. ... In a society full of gender stereotypes, men want to look, smell, and be like Mustafa. ...

• Word Count: 895
• Approx Pages: 4
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