women of silk review

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  1. Hello. The book that I decided to read was the Women of Silk. Like else Uchiyama.
  2. Um It's a story about a young girl's life growing up in the silk factory.
  3. Her name is P and um it's about her life growing over the silk factory
  4. In rural China in during 1926, which is right before World War II.
  5. The story starts off as her as a young girl
  6. with her family and her father figures out she's not going
  7. to be able to marry so she is sent to the silk factory at just the age of 10 I believe.
  8. Um
  9. The story is kind of slow throughout her first few years of being at the factory,
  10. but basically they work from dawn to dusk in the
  11. factory to earn money for their families back at home.
  12. And she lives in a girl's house with a bunch
  13. of other women who also worked at the factory.
  14. She makes friends. One of her best friend's name is Lynn.
  15. Um And later on in the middle of the story,
  16. they perform a boycott or a protest and they strike and none of the
  17. women work there protesting the minimum wage and the hours that they work,
  18. they do end up succeeding and um
  19. they end up receiving a higher minimum wage and less hours of work.
  20. However, one of her friends
  21. um is, it ends up being shot and killed during one of the protests.
  22. Um Later on her and Lynn, her best friend lin basically
  23. took in and adopted p as like her younger sister and
  24. he really looks up to Landon is very dependent on her,
  25. so when Lynn decides that she's gonna perform the haircut ceremony which
  26. is where you devote your entire life to the silk factory.
  27. You transitioned from the girl's house to the sister's house and
  28. you're in the sisterhood of the factory, you can't go get married,
  29. you can't have kids.
  30. Your life is devoted to the fact to the silk work and soapy decides to
  31. go with Lynn because she feels she can't live without lin so they go together
  32. um
  33. And then their life transitions to the sisterhood in the in the sister's house.
  34. Um
  35. She, the main character suffers many losses, such as her best friend,
  36. john's herself, the caretaker of the girl's house,
  37. ends up passing away throughout the story,
  38. her mother ends up passing away towards the end of the book.
  39. Um At the end the japanese are closing in on their town where
  40. they work at and so they need to escape to Hong kong.
  41. Um Lynn ends up passing away at the very end of the story in a in a
  42. in a fire that destroys the whole silk factory and she dies in the fire.
  43. Um He's devastated,
  44. but the story ends up ends with her moving to Hong kong without lin.
  45. Um It's a very beautifully written story about
  46. the very difficult life of her growing up without her parents
  47. um Just herself and it's filled with this,
  48. it's a pretty sad book but there's also beauty in it.
  49. I enjoyed the book.
  50. Um
  51. I probably read it a four out of four out
  52. of five if you don't enjoy slow moving books though.
  53. I probably wouldn't recommend this for you as
  54. it doesn't follow a specific story plot.
  55. It just
  56. beautifully describes her life throughout the slope work.
  57. I enjoyed it.
  58. Um, but yeah, I would probably run a 4-5.
  59. So yeah.