Welcome to the ARCC Blogspot for The Last Communist Virgin. This blog will serve as a dedicated site where students can explore and use the resources available on the internet to read about, research, and publish their own reviews and responses to their reading of this semester's Two Rivers Reading Series short story collection.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
What kinds of emotional reactions have you experienced while reading these stories?
I think the most common emotions I have felt while reading these stories are shock and disgust. There were a few different things in this story that just kind of gave me the creeps or really just grossed me out. An example would be Chicken Yang and how he acts with the young girls that come around him, even the narrator in the story Crush. Situations like that are really disgusting in my mind and reading that in the story rather disturbed me.
Reading this book has gotten a lot more response from me than most books I have read for classes. This book is interesting in the fact that, as I read one story to the next I find it interesting that it can pull me from one end of the spectrum to the next. As a writer, I know it’s hard to accomplish this, and being about to see that in this books, makes me enjoy all the more.
There isnt one emotion that i have had while reading these stories. As i read paragraph to paragraph there is always something different. I was a little disgusted when i read about chicken yang, who touches girls breasts when your old! Yuck! There are times when i am disappointed or excited also.
I have felt really bad for these people while reading these stories because they have wars going on that are hitting some of them so close to home which much be hard. Many of them come to America to try and find better, but end up with more struggle here because of the huge differences in languages and day to day things, that it sometimes seems it may have been easier to just have stayed.
During my readings of these stories I have often felt bad for the way the characters have had to live. They don't get the same luxuries that we take for granted these days. Alot of times they feel left out or don't have money to do things others are doing or the way others are living. But other times the storys are cheerful and enlightening. - Asha Sathre
While reading this book I have been more thankful for where I live and how I live. Many of the circumstances in this book have been very hard for the narrators/families. Their living conditions have been harsh and their way of life difficult. -Sarah Lindwall
During this reading I have been in shock of the things Wan Li goes through. In "Where the Poppies Blow" she lives in a small compound with her family and there is a lot of war and violence in the neighborhood. Later in "The Last Communist Virgin" she has jobs where her managers are very rude and she lives in places that are rather disgusting. One of the places she lived had mold and mouse droppings.
While reading these stories the thing I was most surprised with is the violence. In the first 2 stories it seems like the characters can never find peace because there is a war going on outside there very house. A bullet came less than a foot away from hitting someone! Derek Goodwin
I really like “The last communist virgin” but the ending upset me because Peng just left and she ended up being pregnant. I wanted them both to be together, but I knew throughout the story that they weren’t going to be together. –Detxen Yang
In all of the stories all of the character seem to have it harder than others. people dont always teat them like they do others. this books has made me feel like i am very lucky for who i am and what is going on around me --Cory Hilbelink
I've felt many emotions while reading this book. The most common emotion would be shocked because of all the things Wan Li goes through, and how the chinese culture is.
When the author ready to leave China and went for America, her mother suggest and adviced her just like her baby daughter. Her mother was so emotional with her daughter. The other side, when the author feel alone in the New York she remind her mother. Sometimes she feels to hug and cry in mama's lap. i miss my mother whenever i am not with her.
Hoai Cao Reading this book. I got a lot of emotions, especially sympathy with characters in storis. They was miserable at some points. And I can understood what they felt.
This book makes lets me know how my life is good right now and not to take it for granted. in this stories it makes me realize how bad some people had to live,evnen if they didnt ask for it.
I think a reaction i may have to some of the stories is that i really realize how lucky us americans are with the things and valuables that we have today because sometimes you think you may have it bad or hard, but really you don't.
Most emotions I feel are anger its like asian women are to let men treat them as they wish. When they come to America asian women do anything to survive sell their souls.
Lela R V in all the story i have real in this book i feel that everyone of them is very interesting to me about how the family from chinese back ground can live and work together and also act amount each other.
In the Chapter Last Communist Virgin " I really feel for the character Wan Li , Because she has to move so much and not only did she move so much it seemed like she struggled with having multiple jobs and attending school .
In the Chapter Last Communist Virgin " I sympathise for the character Wan Li , Because she has to move so much and not only did she move so much it seemed like she struggled with having multiple jobs and attending school .
I think the most common emotions I have felt while reading these stories are shock and disgust. There were a few different things in this story that just kind of gave me the creeps or really just grossed me out. An example would be Chicken Yang and how he acts with the young girls that come around him, even the narrator in the story Crush. Situations like that are really disgusting in my mind and reading that in the story rather disturbed me.
ReplyDelete-BriJo Deopere
Reading this book has gotten a lot more response from me than most books I have read for classes. This book is interesting in the fact that, as I read one story to the next I find it interesting that it can pull me from one end of the spectrum to the next. As a writer, I know it’s hard to accomplish this, and being about to see that in this books, makes me enjoy all the more.
ReplyDelete-Samantha Felt
There isnt one emotion that i have had while reading these stories. As i read paragraph to paragraph there is always something different. I was a little disgusted when i read about chicken yang, who touches girls breasts when your old! Yuck! There are times when i am disappointed or excited also.
ReplyDelete~Bailey Lund
I have felt really bad for these people while reading these stories because they have wars going on that are hitting some of them so close to home which much be hard. Many of them come to America to try and find better, but end up with more struggle here because of the huge differences in languages and day to day things, that it sometimes seems it may have been easier to just have stayed.
ReplyDelete-Lynnette Rolf
During my readings of these stories I have often felt bad for the way the characters have had to live. They don't get the same luxuries that we take for granted these days. Alot of times they feel left out or don't have money to do things others are doing or the way others are living. But other times the storys are cheerful and enlightening. - Asha Sathre
ReplyDeleteWhile reading this book I have been more thankful for where I live and how I live. Many of the circumstances in this book have been very hard for the narrators/families. Their living conditions have been harsh and their way of life difficult. -Sarah Lindwall
ReplyDeleteDuring this reading I have been in shock of the things Wan Li goes through. In "Where the Poppies Blow" she lives in a small compound with her family and there is a lot of war and violence in the neighborhood. Later in "The Last Communist Virgin" she has jobs where her managers are very rude and she lives in places that are rather disgusting. One of the places she lived had mold and mouse droppings.
ReplyDeleteDustin Huhne
While reading these stories the thing I was most surprised with is the violence. In the first 2 stories it seems like the characters can never find peace because there is a war going on outside there very house. A bullet came less than a foot away from hitting someone! Derek Goodwin
ReplyDeleteI really like “The last communist virgin” but the ending upset me because Peng just left and she ended up being pregnant. I wanted them both to be together, but I knew throughout the story that they weren’t going to be together. –Detxen Yang
ReplyDeleteIn all of the stories all of the character seem to have it harder than others. people dont always teat them like they do others. this books has made me feel like i am very lucky for who i am and what is going on around me
ReplyDelete--Cory Hilbelink
I've felt many emotions while reading this book. The most common emotion would be shocked because of all the things Wan Li goes through, and how the chinese culture is.
ReplyDelete-Quincy Bethea aka Q-head
When the author ready to leave China and went for America, her mother suggest and adviced her just like her baby daughter. Her mother was so emotional with her daughter. The other side, when the author feel alone in the New York she remind her mother. Sometimes she feels to hug and cry in mama's lap. i miss my mother whenever i am not with her.
ReplyDeleteHoai Cao
ReplyDeleteReading this book. I got a lot of emotions, especially sympathy with characters in storis. They was miserable at some points. And I can understood what they felt.
This book makes lets me know how my life is good right now and not to take it for granted. in this stories it makes me realize how bad some people had to live,evnen if they didnt ask for it.
ReplyDelete-Kenyell Jackson
Lauren Pacey
ReplyDeleteReading
I think a reaction i may have to some of the stories is that i really realize how lucky us americans are with the things and valuables that we have today because sometimes you think you may have it bad or hard, but really you don't.
Most emotions I feel are anger its like asian women are to let men treat them as they wish. When they come to America asian women do anything to survive sell their souls.
ReplyDeleteKimberly
Lela R V
ReplyDeletein all the story i have real in this book i feel that everyone of them is very interesting to me about how the family from chinese back ground can live and work together and also act amount each other.
In the Chapter Last Communist Virgin " I really feel for the character Wan Li , Because she has to move so much and not only did she move so much it seemed like she struggled with having multiple jobs and attending school .
ReplyDeleteDenisha S
In the Chapter Last Communist Virgin " I sympathise for the character Wan Li , Because she has to move so much and not only did she move so much it seemed like she struggled with having multiple jobs and attending school .
ReplyDeleteDenisha S