All 12 Uses of
peasant
in
The Joy Luck Club
- Shanghai people with north-water peasants, bankers with barbers, rickshaw pullers with Burma refugees.†
Chpt 2peasants = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: people of low income, education, and social standing -- especially those who raise crops or livestock
- But the worst were the northern peasants who emptied their noses into their hands and pushed people around and gave everybody their dirty diseases.†
Chpt 2
- I didn't know if it was a peasant slitting the throat of a runaway pig or an officer beating a half-dead peasant for lying in his way on the sidewalk.†
Chpt 2
- I didn't know if it was a peasant slitting the throat of a runaway pig or an officer beating a half-dead peasant for lying in his way on the sidewalk.†
Chpt 2
- In the early morning peasants sold vegetables I had never seen or eaten before in my life—and my mother assured me I would find them so sweet, so tender, so fresh.†
Chpt 17peasants = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: people of low income, education, and social standing -- especially those who raise crops or livestock
- It said that for thousands of years birds had been tormenting the peasants.†
Chpt 17
- They flocked to watch peasants bent over in the fields, digging the hard dirt, crying into the furrows to water the seeds.†
Chpt 17
- But one day, all these tired peasants—from all over China—they gathered in fields everywhere.†
Chpt 17
- Chickens came in and out like my relatives' graceless peasant guests.†
Chpt 18
- It was at this shop, working like a peasant, that I met Clifford St. Clair.
Chpt 18 *peasant = used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: a person of low income, education, and social standing
- It was an old peasant woman who found them.†
Chpt 20
- "How could I resist?" the peasant woman later told your sisters when they were older.†
Chpt 20
Definition:
used historically or possibly in relation to a very poor country: a person of low income, education, and social standing -- especially one who raises crops or livestock