It could only be described as a classic and breathtaking story, with vibrant narration and thorough research. This is the truth about Spring Moon, a classic novel written by Bette Bao Lord. The novel was published in 1990 by Harper Paperbacks and describes the life story of a vivacious young Chinese girl and the struggles that she faces throughout her life. The author of this book could only be commended for her excellent narration in this spellbinding depiction of the battle between traditional Chinese culture and modern American culture. An interesting factor in this book that makes it even more worthwhile to read is the small stories or quotations given at the start of every chapter that relate to the events that follow it.
To give you the general idea of the story, the novel starts out with the childhood of a rich Chinese girl. The opening chapters give you a basic understanding of Chinese culture and the family members of this girl named Spring Moon. The story continues to describe the tragedies that occur in the Chang household and how Spring Moon overcomes this and later on gets married. After the first stage of her childhood is complete, the second stage of her married life continues. In this section, we learn about the traditional requirements of a new bride and the duties she must perform, something we wouldn't usually see in modern day brides. The third section talks about her life as a mother/widow and the in just prejudices of the Chinese society that she must face during times of economic crisis. Throughout this novel, we see what battles a Chinese girl must face in her society and her thoughts and feelings about it.
The plot of the novel is one to be applauded. It is breathtakingly exciting with concrete evidence and suspenseful action. This suspense can be seen well during the part when Spring Moon finds out that her husband might be missing in action during the war but due to Chinese customs, the first word of his death can only be know by her mother-in-law.
The moon makes our planet different from some of the others. ... A person wanting to go to the moon would have to die and be reborn into a moon-qualified body (Wilhelm 185). ... The Great Moon Hoax. ... Tracking Apollo to the Moon. Springer Publications. ...
A 1972 study established that spring plantings flourished after the new moon and full moon (Dyar 2). ... He suggested that as a result of media reporting of "nutty- happenings during a full moon, some police officers believe there is a correlation between the full moon and criminal behavior. ... But beliefs in higher crime rates during a full moon are not borne out by statistics. ... Joseph, Missouri, to determine the belief in the power of the moon over the events studied. ... But as long as our literature, films, comic strips and nightly news reports portray strange happenings during th...
After all, this was a time in which our country would go on to be the first to be able to actually send a man to the moon. ... Therefore, if I were to have read the Silent Spring in 1960's America, many things about the book would have greatly disturbed me. ... In Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, she writes about DDT, one of the most powerful pesticides ever made. ... Reading Silent Springs in the 1960's would probably have made me think about a lot of issues I hadn't thought about before. ... In Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, Carson writes about the harmful effects ...
The most important force on the tides is the moon. ... The water's attraction to the moon is much smaller than that to the earth because the moon is much farther away and much smaller then the earth. ... Particularly high tides happen when the sun and the moon are lined up with the earth at new and full stages of the moon. These tides are called spring tides. ... Proxigean spring tides are very extreme and rare tides when the new moon is unusually close to the earth, this happens about every 1.5 years. ...
The title of my book is Blue Moon. ... Blue Moon has two hundred and two pages. ... Mainly the story is in the spring and summer months, such as the last few days of school and throughout the summer. Blue Moon is a book about a young girl who gets out for the summer and notices changes in her beloved graduating friend. ... If I were asked to evaluate Blue Moon I would rate it as an 8.3 because I enjoyed it a lot and really got a point across to me. ...
It signified the monthly change in the phases of the Moon from new moon to half moon to full moon to another half moon and back to new moon. ... In temperate countries, the seasons are dramatically different from each other: cool spring became warm summer, summer turned into autumn, the fall of leaves in autumn transitioned into the snows of winter, and frozen winter thawed into the rains of spring. ...
An equinox or solstice marks the first day of a season, i.e. spring, summer, winter, and fall. ... Spring arrived. ... The Easter bunny itself is actually a hare, not a rabbit, and the hare was a symbol of the moon in pagan culture. ... The color of the Easter Bunny is usually white, which also symbolized the moon. ... From www.factmonster.com, "Easter is calculated as the first Sunday after the paschal full moon that occurs on or after the vernal equinox . . ."" ...
Instead, long before the earth was made, Niflheim was made, and in it a spring gave rise to twelve rivers. ... Those two children were so beautiful that their father named the son Moon and the daughter Sol. ... Moon likewise takes a course across the sky each night, but not so swiftly because he is not so harried. ...
He remembers a twisted branch upon the beach and a broken spring in a factory yard that is "hard and curled and ready to snap." I do believe that this represents something far greater than a bed spring, however, I cannot determine what it might be. ... Again, the lamp instructs him to regard the moon. ... He then gets back to describing the moon in all of her glory. ...
