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Twilight vs Joy Luck Club:plausibility?

posted 16 years ago by butterseyes
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I'm not pitting the two against each other, i just wanted to know if people agreed with me that the Joy Luck Club is more believable than Twilight, logically speaking, vampires aren't real but daughters always have generational conflicts with their mothers or are held up to high expections of which they are incapable of furfilling or constantly are hurt by their mother's criticism (which is what the Joy Luck Club is about)

I ask this because i have a project to do on the literary use of verisimilitude (the ability to be very true to real life, to be plausible and capable of actually happening) So we have to write a sentence using the word and we have to find an example of the word in one of the books we've read in class (we read the joy luck club so i was thinking of using that as an example). And there's this classmate who hated the Joy Luck Club and said she would've have liked it if it was nonfiction (my reaction was WTF?), she also is a big twilight fan so i was thinking about taking a jab at her by claiming the though both works are fiction, the Joy Luck Club is far more plausible and that it's stupid of her to say she would've liked it if it actually happened and yet she thinks the Twilight series are the best books ever written.

Just wanted to see who agreed with me. Twilight fans are also welcomed, i'm not bashing it, i just want to know if you agree.

"If that was a veiled criticism of me, I won't hear it and I won't respond."-Lucille Bluth

[–] jamie7862 16 years ago

No offense but your classmate sounds a little bit of a moron. I've read some of the Twilight books and they are alright. I have not had the opportunity to read the Joy Luck Club novel unfortunately but I thoroughly enjoyed the movie and think it's great. The fact that it didn't actually happen means nothing and don't understand why one would bash the book because it's fiction. And if it's about verisimilitude then Twilight should clearly be out of the running. A love story about a 100 year old vampire and a human girl with werewolves to add to it? Please no comparison. I am glad you are calling that individual out lol. Sorry if that sounds evil.

[–] atc2008 16 years ago

Dude, your friend is a retard.

I have The Joy Luck Club on DVD, watched it many times as well as reading the book by Tan. I watched Twilight and read the first page of the book.

It is just so obvious what a hypocrit your friend is. Why can't she be more honest and say "I like Twilight better than JLC b/c Robert Pattinson was *beep* hot in the movie."

Like I said your friend is a retard. You're very well-spoken too so you need to find friends at your maturity level. You sound like you could be in college and she sounds like she's in the 7th grade. hehe

[–] GonzoBarbossa 15 years ago

While not all of it happened there are aspects of Amy Tan and her own mother and grandmother's lives in there. For instance the story of An Mei's mother is what happened to Tan's own grandmother. Plus the overall theme is about Tan and her mother. Read "The Opposite of Fate" by Amy Tan with Joy Luck Club.

"What? No. We Can't Stop Here. This is bat country."-Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

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