Term 4: Week 5 Setting Descriptive Paragraph

[Shannon]

Write your setting descriptive here. Both partners should post the same paragraph on goodreads.

[Neha]

All it takes is one glance and it will leave you euphorically breathless. The elliptical, snow-white, opulent facade has an eye-catching, embellished, sinuous ceiling as high as the sky which rests on rows of towering milk-white pillars spaced evenly apart from one another to ensure adequate space. On the flawlessly sculpted alabaster-layered walls are veiled with impressively handcrafted opalescent garlands of flowers and rich spiral motifs painted champagne pink and lemon chiffon, an emblem which ought to be showcased, produce a resonant gamut of colors and give life to its surrounding. Luminous trickles of sunlight stream through a myriad of the flanking circular and arched framed windows with such crystalline purity. The concocted coat of rose-gold pastels bedecks the colossal moon-white sacred chamber eloquently of mere innocence and serenity, casting a lingering tranquilizing ambiance. Possessing the power to spellbind any eyes and causing them to indulge in gazing at the intimate details of the sublime beauty, this endearing ostentatious edifice is a reminiscent of the true potential of man-made creations, and is naught but a deep-seated heavenly adorned monument.

[Jasmine]

The Joy Luck Club contains sixteen interwoven stories about conflicts between Chinese immigrant mothers and their American-raised daughters. The book hinges on Jing-mei’s trip to China to meet her half-sisters, twins Chwun Yu and Chwun Hwa. The half-sisters remained behind in China because Jing-mei’s mother, Suyuan, was forced to leave them on the roadside during her desperate flight from Japan’s invasion of Kweilin during World War II. Jing-mei was born to a different father years later, in America. Suyuan intended to return to China for her other daughters, but failed to find them before her death.

Jing-mei has taken her mother’s place playing mahjong in a weekly gathering her mother had organized in China and revived in San Francisco: the Joy Luck Club. The club’s other members—Lindo, Ying-ying, and An-mei—are three of her mother’s oldest friends and fellow immigrants. They tell Jing-mei that just before Suyuan died, she had finally succeeded in locating the address of her lost daughters. The three women repeatedly urge Jing-mei to travel to China and tell her sisters about their mother’s life. But Jing-mei wonders whether she is capable of telling her mother’s story, and the three older women fear that Jing-mei’s doubts may be justified. They fear that their own daughters, like Jing-mei, may not know or appreciate the stories of their mothers’ lives.
The novel is composed of four sections, each of which contains four separate narratives. In the first four stories of the book, the mothers, speaking in turn, recall with astonishing clarity their relationships with their own mothers, and they worry that their daughters’ recollections of them will never possess the same intensity. In the second section, these daughters—Waverly, Jing-mei, Lena, and Rose—relate their recollections of their childhood relationships with their mothers; the great lucidity and force with which they tell their stories proves their mothers’ fears at least partially unfounded. In the third group of stories, the four daughters narrate their adult dilemmas—troubles in marriage and with their careers. Although they believe that their mothers’ antiquated ideas do not pertain to their own very American lifestyles, their search for solutions inevitably brings them back to their relationships with the older generation. In the final group of stories, the mothers struggle to offer solutions and support to their daughters, in the process learning more about themselves. Lindo recognizes through her daughter Waverly that she has been irrevocably changed by American culture.



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[Jennifer]

The Baby Sitters Club: Claudia and the Sad Good-bye
In this book the baby’s sitters club held meetings in Claudia’s bedroom. Claudia’s bedroom is the typical comfortable and cozy room of an eighth grade girl. It could fit six to seven girls who were also in the baby sitters club. Three girls could sit on the comfortable bed while the rest could sit on the warm carpet floor. Even though she was still in grade 8, she has her own old-fashioned house phone in her room for the baby sitters’ club activity. Her bedroom is full of wonderful art works which she made. Her art works were interesting sculptures. In her bedroom there were art supplies such as canvas, paint brushes, paints scattered messily in one corner of her room. She has piles of Nancy Drew novels which she kept it in her pristine and multifunctional bookshelf. I say multifunctional because she not only used the bookshelf to store her books but also hide junk foods behind the novels. She has a lots of junk food that were hidden all over her bedroom. She hides some of her junk foods underneath her neat bed. She also have fake thick books which were hollow inside where she could also hide her junk foods. If you open her closet, the clothes were wild and out of this world. Claudia likes to mix and match, clash colors and different pieces of outfits. The wardrobe is also filled with jewelry and also likes to make some herself.

[Dyah]

The Baby Sitters Club: Claudia and the Sad Good-bye
In this book the baby’s sitters club held meetings in Claudia’s bedroom. Claudia’s bedroom is the typical comfortable and cozy room of an eighth grade girl. It could fit six to seven girls who were also in the baby sitters club. Three girls could sit on the comfortable bed while the rest could sit on the warm carpet floor. Even though she was still in grade 8, she has her own old-fashioned house phone in her room for the baby sitters’ club activity. Her bedroom is full of wonderful art works which she made. Her art works were interesting sculptures. In her bedroom there were art supplies such as canvas, paint brushes, paints scattered messily in one corner of her room. She has piles of Nancy Drew novels which she kept it in her pristine and multifunctional bookshelf. I say multifunctional because she not only used the bookshelf to store her books but also hide junk foods behind the novels. She has a lots of junk food that were hidden all over her bedroom. She hides some of her junk foods underneath her neat bed. She also have fake thick books which were hollow inside where she could also hide her junk foods. If you open her closet, the clothes were wild and out of this world. Claudia likes to mix and match, clash colors and different pieces of outfits. The wardrobe is also filled with jewelry and also likes to make some herself.

[Kimberly]

The Joy Luck Club contains sixteen interwoven stories about conflicts between Chinese immigrant mothers and their American-raised daughters. The book hinges on Jing-mei’s trip to China to meet her half-sisters, twins Chwun Yu and Chwun Hwa. The half-sisters remained behind in China because Jing-mei’s mother, Suyuan, was forced to leave them on the roadside during her desperate flight from Japan’s invasion of Kweilin during World War II. Jing-mei was born to a different father years later, in America. Suyuan intended to return to China for her other daughters, but failed to find them before her death.

Jing-mei has taken her mother’s place playing mahjong in a weekly gathering her mother had organized in China and revived in San Francisco: the Joy Luck Club. The club’s other members—Lindo, Ying-ying, and An-mei—are three of her mother’s oldest friends and fellow immigrants. They tell Jing-mei that just before Suyuan died, she had finally succeeded in locating the address of her lost daughters. The three women repeatedly urge Jing-mei to travel to China and tell her sisters about their mother’s life. But Jing-mei wonders whether she is capable of telling her mother’s story, and the three older women fear that Jing-mei’s doubts may be justified. They fear that their own daughters, like Jing-mei, may not know or appreciate the stories of their mothers’ lives.
The novel is composed of four sections, each of which contains four separate narratives. In the first four stories of the book, the mothers, speaking in turn, recall with astonishing clarity their relationships with their own mothers, and they worry that their daughters’ recollections of them will never possess the same intensity. In the second section, these daughters—Waverly, Jing-mei, Lena, and Rose—relate their recollections of their childhood relationships with their mothers; the great lucidity and force with which they tell their stories proves their mothers’ fears at least partially unfounded. In the third group of stories, the four daughters narrate their adult dilemmas—troubles in marriage and with their careers. Although they believe that their mothers’ antiquated ideas do not pertain to their own very American lifestyles, their search for solutions inevitably brings them back to their relationships with the older generation. In the final group of stories, the mothers struggle to offer solutions and support to their daughters, in the process learning more about themselves. Lindo recognizes through her daughter Waverly that she has been irrevocably changed by American culture.