Final for World Lit.

World Lit. has been jammed with many books somewhere good other didn't compare to the others. The two books that I would have to say took the other books out of the picture would have to bee Power of One and Haroun and the Sea of Stories. These two books where by far the easiest to read and get into. Power of One is a very well put together story that takes you through the life of a young English boy in Africa around the time of World War II. Haroun is a story of a boy who has a father that tells wonderful stories and they go on this giant adventure to get the story telling back to his father. This book came as a surprise I wasn’t expecting it to be very good, but in end up being one of the better stories we read in the class. These are the two stories that other students should get into and read in this class.

The one book that wasn’t very good to me was the Joy Luck Club. I really didn’t enjoy the stories it was depressing and really hard to get into and read the book. It tells stories about Chinese families and there all pretty sad and just not that enjoyable to read for me it wasn’t at least. I think for other classes if you had to take a book out this would be the one that would be the best choice of all.

With this class we got to do blogs on the internet. It was new and I thought fun to put into a class it changed regular old school work for us by putting it on something we don’t use in school very often. I think continuing this would be a good idea I think other kids would enjoy this and makes it a little easier to work on then writing pages of homework. This takes you out a regular class room work and changed things up, change can be good with this it was good and I really enjoyed working on blogs. With kids being on computers more and spending tons of time on them, this made it so we could work on the computer while we look up things on the internet.

The Joy Luck Club

In the book The Joy luck Club we come to the final story “A Pair of Tickets”. This story tell of the Jing-mei who after her mothers death finds out that she has two twin sisters over in China. Jing-mei is asked to go see the girls in place of her mother to tell the twins that their mom has died. Jing isn’t so sure about this as she really didn’t know what to say to the twins for she had no idea that they even existed before her mother’s death. Jing’s father tells her how Jing’s mother left the twin with money and jewels for someone to find because she thought she wouldn’t make it and she didn’t want her baby girls to die with her. The twin are found by Muslims who take care of them, when they go looking for the twins mother she has already moved away to America with June’s father. June’s mother though writes letters to friends and relative to see if they can help find her lost girls. After June’s mother dies they are spotted by and old class mate of her mothers and a letter is sent to the Joy Luck Club.
June is Chinese with that her mother says that she possesses a certain essential Chinese below the surface. June denied this all her life with her mother, but when June finally goes to China for the first time in her life she feels like what her mother has been telling her has been true. She feels different in China like she belongs there. Even though June has never been of lived in China until she goes to see her half sister, she still has a sense that she is strongly connected to China in someway. June realizes that it’s true what her mother says and sees now that she and her mother are more alike then she had thought before going to China.
When June finally meets her half sisters Chwun Yu and Chwun Hwa she doesn’t really see her mother in their faces like she thought she would. The three hug and mutter “mama” with that June’s father takes a picture of the three. As the picture comes out June finally sees that all three of the look like Suyuan. This connects June with her mother more physically as the three compare very closely to Suyuan. This puts it on June that she is like her mom very much so not just in the feeling of Chinese now, but also the look of her is close to her mother.
The ending of this book is very befitting to the Joy Luck Club. I think that if Suyuan was still alive June would have denied the entire true that was coming out of this trip to China. June would have fought against her mother not wanting her to be right about it. So with Suyuan gone June is able to see what her mother was like and take it in better for she couldn’t argue with her mother about it she was able to except it. So the ending is well thought of and I liked it. June was able to open her eyes and see her mother truly for the first time.

"Without Wood"

In the story with out would we have Rose Hsu Jordan grown up and she has been married for about 15 years to Ted, but the marriage starts to fail. One day will Ted is on a business trip, Rose gets divorce papers in the mail along with a ten thousand dollar check. Rose is crushed and takes the pain by staying in bed with the help of sleeping pills. On the third day An-mei calls Rose and tells her and says that she should stand up for herself. After the talk with An-mie Ted calls, and asks why Rose hasn’t sent the divorce papers back. Ted what the house for he has found a new love and what to the house to live in with her. Rose tells Ted to come pick them up. When he gets the papers they are unsigned and Rose refuses to be thrown away like trash by Ted and says she is keeping the house.
The Chinese value that is shown in this story is that you should respect yourself and show confidence in everything you do. Rose got self respect after the talk with An-mie which made her stand up for her self against Ted. Rose starts having more self confidence when she decides to stand up for herself and first she wasn’t as good at it as she took her pain by lying in bed and taking pills, but she stands up and gets to keep the house for she isn’t just a piece of something that you can just pick then when your done with it throw it away.
So I think that what the Chinese value of this story is respect yourself and stand up to problems that come at you. That them head on don't avoid them.

Childhood conflict

When I was in my younger years I was a little trouble some at times. If my mom told me not to do something that I thought would be fun to I when I got the chance I’d usually be doing what I was told not to. Boy would she get made and I get in some big trouble. When I was about 7 years old I had a thing for knifes like most little boys they were cool, fun, and shiny. Well I wasn’t very skilled with a knife lets just say I couldn’t quite cut like a pro chef could. That still didn’t stop me so I’d sneak in my parents room and fine my dad’s pocket knife then take off out the door like a cheetah was after me. I’d use it to cut tree branches off and other stuff, but that usually lead to me fingers getting in the way. So I’d run inside my house crying my eyes out my mom would ask what happened and I’d tell her. Well after about the 8th time cutting myself I was in some trouble my mom said if I where to cut myself again I’d be sent to my room with out getting a band aid or anything. Well me being the little scamp that I was took that pocket knife out and played around the once again cut my finger. So I went to the house telling my mom I needed a banded, but she remembers what she told me. Well I wasn’t to happy o about that I mean I was bleeding I needed serious medical help what I thought. So I said no I need a band aid I’m not going to my room. Well my mom said if I didn’t I’d get in even bigger trouble for not listening to her. So me crying even more ran to my room now upset and bleeding still. Laid on my bed yelling mom, but she let me lay there for a little. Then after awhile she came in and got me a band aid. Let’s just say that after that knife weren’t as appealing to me.
I think my mom was mad at me not because I cut myself again, but because I didn’t listen to what she said. I think that she wanted to show me that doing something that I’m not suppose to could lead to some punishment

childhood impact story

Well much of my childhood memory has been lost through out my long 18 years of life. I think most of the reason has been my head injuries getting 6 concussions I think messes with the brain a little. One of these injuries was obtained while riding with my mom home from lunch after a hot day of work. We were driving along the way on a gravel road to our house which was just about 7 miles and a river away from my moms work. It was a normal hot day and we were all hungry for we worked up quite and appetite from work in the morning. So where driving from work we are closing in on this turn which you can’t see the other side as the trees blocked view to the other side. So we take the turn we move on the inside of the turn because there usually no one diving the rode, but today was the day Norbie’s wife was going to work as we rounded the corner her vehicle came around at the same time. (Norbie and Debby where the other family that would and lived on the same ranch where my family lived and my dad worked.) We hit front ends we where wearing seat belts so we got some massive frontal movement that through my head into the windshield cracking it. I ended up with glass in my forehead and was bleeding. So my dad came picked me up and we went to the emergency room so I could get checked out. After we check to make sure Debby was okay and not injured. They cleared the glass out as best they could and I was sent home with a cut up head and a massive headache. I really didn't know what to do I was young a kind of out of it with the head injury, but I was glad everyone turned out okay and Know one was seriously injured.
I learned that it is wise to wear a seat belt even if it’s just a little drive to your house anything can happen and you should be safe no matter what you are doing. We got lucky that we weren’t moving at high speeds or else a lot more damage could have happened to both sides and that could have been very bad.

Reading on China

The empire of China back in the medieval days was equally as great as the Roman empire. It wasn't quite as out going as the Spanish empire over America and Philippines and it's people less numerous than Britain, when you compare the subject years to the rest of the empires around the world it surpasses them all.

In a large part of the 3rd century the China was a split country with many barbarian dynasties fighting for control of the northern part of China. The Han Chinese in the lower part kept its economy up and running as the battles wore on in the higher parts of China. In 589 China united until 1126 when it was split by the Jin dynasty in the north and the Chinese dynasty of the Southern Song had the south. In 1234 the Mongols took control of north China then later on took south China reuniting China once agian but under Mongal rule. It is said that inner China is still under Mongal rule to this day.

China

the Chinese flag and the Golden Lion Tamarin
China has the great wall of china that has lasted for many many years.It was built to protect China from invades from the other side China is the fourth largest country in the world. Its two biggest cities Shanghai and Beijing are two of the most populated and largest cities in the world. China is home to 1.3 billion people which make up about 20 percent of the worlds population. They have large field of rice patties in China. The wildlife there is very unique it is home to the Snow leopard which is now a very rare animal along with the giant panda a tiger who are also very rare animals. China also have the fast growing plant know as bamboo which the giant panda eats. China is the largest producer of silk and cotton. With each year in the Chinese calendar a different animal is represented 12 different animals are used the in the Chinese calendar each representing something different he 12 animals are the rat,ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, sheep, monkey,
rooster, dog, and pig. China is also home to the worlds largest mountain Mount Qomolangma (also known as Mount Everest). China is one of the oldest if no the oldest civilization in the world to day out lasting many other countries around it.

the famous giant panda