“Amy Tan is the daughter of Chinese immigrants that came to the United States fleeing the civil war in china”. Tan was born in Oakland, California she received her BA and MS degree in English. “In order for Tan to find her ethnic and her voice she started to write fiction books”. Fish Cheeks is a story that Tan wrote about the time when her parents (not knowing that she was in love with the minister son) invited the minister family for Chinese Christmas Eve. She worried a lot because she didn’t know what Robert will think about her Chinese culture. When having dinner Tan was in silence feeling shame about her family and culture food. “At the end of the dinner her mother told Tan that she knew that she wanted to be like the other American girls,
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She had a lot since the first sentenced in "Fish Cheeks" article she explain about her feeling towards an American boy Robert. When she found about that he will be coming for dinner for Christmas Eve she felt worried about what he will think of her Chinese culture and values. She knew that her family will not behave like an America, so she cried. She question herself “what would Robert think of our shabby Chinese Christmas?” When Tan saw her mother making dinner she explained the food like it was something disgusting. One of the dishes t at dinner Tan felt despair because she thought that her family was not behaving like Americans. When her mother brought the food in the table her siblings went right to the food while there guest waited patiently. In this article Tan uses rhetorical techniques ethos to show what her culture values meant to her when she was fourteen. At this age Tan was having a value judgement about her Chinese culture. When the boy who she had a crush came to her house to have dinner she was thinking what they will think of her " Chinese relatives who lacked proper American manners" and " what a terrible disappointment he would feel upon seeing not a roasted turkey and sweet potatoes but Chinese food". Tan though that her Chinese culture was not good as the American culture to satisfy their
She had a lot since the first sentenced in "Fish Cheeks" article she explain about her feeling towards an American boy Robert. When she found about that he will be coming for dinner for Christmas Eve she felt worried about what he will think of her Chinese culture and values. She knew that her family will not behave like an America, so she cried. She question herself “what would Robert think of our shabby Chinese Christmas?” When Tan saw her mother making dinner she explained the food like it was something disgusting. One of the dishes t at dinner Tan felt despair because she thought that her family was not behaving like Americans. When her mother brought the food in the table her siblings went right to the food while there guest waited patiently. In this article Tan uses rhetorical techniques ethos to show what her culture values meant to her when she was fourteen. At this age Tan was having a value judgement about her Chinese culture. When the boy who she had a crush came to her house to have dinner she was thinking what they will think of her " Chinese relatives who lacked proper American manners" and " what a terrible disappointment he would feel upon seeing not a roasted turkey and sweet potatoes but Chinese food". Tan though that her Chinese culture was not good as the American culture to satisfy their