Outrageous

True Gold Not Fool’s Gold
(Red Candle)

What a feminist author! What she writes make me angry into two ways. One way would be what she wanted as a reaction. I hate men who are horrible to their wives and I hate men who are big liars, Tyan-yu and the soldier from the movie, respectively. So I can still feel the anger that is suppose to envelope the reader to, obviously, dislike if not hate Lindo’s first husband. Then I feel another anger…toward Amy Tan this time. As I said before, what a feminist. Why are men portrayed with such atrocity?! Most of them anyways. If you don’t believe me, read at least three of Amy Tan’s books in a row and 1. You can tell what’s going to happen overall (she has a repetitive style) and 2. Most of the men in the stories are either trash from birth and on or born rich but still a trashy person “in [their] bones” (Bonesetter’s Daughter by…duh…Amy Tan). So I want to say to her, What’s wrong with Chinese men?! My father is an incredible person and so are some of my friend’s fathers. They sure are all Chinese! And what’s up with all the American husbands too?! They are better than the Chinese husbands she portrayed that raped, tortured, and beat their wives but if you think about it, not as good as they should have been. So to her I suppose all the men in the world are horrible?! I know she doesn’t think that way but with her stories, you would think so. She is suppose to represent China in a good way bringing the culture out to the rest of the world not making up nonsense myths and customs and denouncing the Chinese men. I’m blogging, venting, and taking this out on my laptop. This chapter seriously pissed me off, adding the fact that I just read two other Amy Tan books. (sry for the rough language)….so to continue with more pleasant language…
Hearing June talking about Lindo Jong and actually hearing her talk about herself are quite different. I thought about what Lindo Jong said about how children give themselves excuses to not be able to visit their mother when they had promised already. I wondered if I will be like that and I thought I suppose it is only human and when they do make up excuses they don’t notice that they do or don’t think that it’s a big deal to them or their parent. Then Lindo also mentions about the movie that her daughter watched to miss dinner with her. She also watches it and says how the soldier makes a big promise to a girl he probably loved at the time but later after the war he went to another girl and proposed. The Hollywood scenes may make people feel and comment how romantic the second girl looks surprised and is shocked to find she suddenly falls for the guy too. Okay, not to be mean to most of what books and movies are made but now when I read that I thought that was stupid. What kind guy is that?! What kind of girl is stupid enough? I feel for the first girl that the soldier promised, and incredibly mad that I look down upon this soldier. Continuing calmly…I am mad that marriages back then were all arranged, for the whole entire world this seemed to be. I especially hate this tradition. And it seems that all the mothers in Joy Luck Club have had an arranged marriage as the first time. Lindo Jong has experienced a lot as a young wife. I especially want to tear Tyan-yu to pieces every time he “made special efforts to make [Lindo] cry.” (*breathe in, breathe out*)
It was normal to spoil a son but for whatever reason the Huang family did was just to me …..what?? confusion…their reason didn’t make much sense to me. And it is also normal for a mother in law to not like a daughter in law. That’s pretty cliché. I mean we even have the movie by Jennifer Lopez called “Monster in Law.” It is stereotypical that a mother doesn’t really like the wife of her son usually thinking whoever he chose isn’t good enough for him.

And to add: Does Amy Tan really know the traditions for getting married? The red veil doesn’t come off until after the bride and groom are in their room and sitting on their bed. The candle, I must say is possible, just possible, because different regions in China have their different custom. But mostly the same with small variations.

Very First Post!

Yeah! My very first post and amazingly the first one i have made in all my life! and so i make this for homework reasons but i still think it is fairly "cool".
So main reason to be here is to talk about "The Joy Luck Club".
It is an amazing book and the movie, i can say, is just as enthralling. As we read along in class, we will each post a blog or comment about each chapter.
We write our thoughts and reactions to the chapter and , of course, the required discussions of Character, Plot and Theme...and so on.
I hope i have fun...i know i will...