This period in English we are going to focus on literature. We are given three authors on whom we can chose a book from and read. To get to know the authors better, Gro ( Our teacher) decided that we first had to find some facts about the authors and then write a short paragraph about the impressions we got from the authors. So underneath you can find my impressions i got from watching some videos from the authors - which i also will post so that if you want, you can also watch them!
My impression of Amy Tan, after watching the video, was that she maybe uses a lot of what her mother thought her in her stories. She actually said it her self, that her mom said a lot of stuff that other mothers would´ve thought was to brutal and that made her think more creatively while she wrote her book. She was´t afraid to talk about what her mother said, and she told the honest truth about moving to another country and being able to start over again. She also focuses on women leaving other countries and how they adapt and so on.
After watching the video, i wanted to research a little bit about her book, The Joy Luck Club, to see if she maybe used a lot of what her mother tried to teach her in her younger years, and she did. The book is about four different Chinese families who moves to America. If i were to read this book i would probably read a lot about how strict the families are and the difference methods there is to raising a child.
Andrea Levy
Andrea was a lot more emotional then the two other authors. So I can probably think that her book has a lot of emotional content and the hard and mental part of moving to another country. She was so grateful that the book got the attention it did because she thought that no one would care about how a Jamaican girl would have it. Her book is about four main characters: Hortense, Queen, Gilbert and Bernard. Its plot is set in 1948 and focuses on Jamaican immigrants, who, escaping economic move to England.
Moshin Hamid Moshin gave me the impression that he wasn't scared to leave out any details in his book even though some people from his culture was offended by the way he wrote the The reluctant fundamentalist which is the book we are going to focus on. By having two cultures he got to the capability to compare the two cultures into a book and he used that advantage. Something he didn't mention in this video but i was it in another, i can leave a link below, was that the book is about different culture love and the terror attack that happened in the US - 9/11. He used a lot of his experiences when making this book. Being a Pakistani man during the attack gave him a intel on how it is to me judged by the looks. His book as i said is about love and terror attack. It´s about a boy who moved from Pakistan to America, where he met a girl, who after a while became mentally ill, so after that and the terror attack of the twin towers he decided to leave and go back to Pakistan.
Something all of these authors have in common is that all of them have two different cultures that are influencing their writing. They all write about the difficulties about moving to another country and they take on three complete different subjects which makes the books different from each other.
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