Amy Tan is an American writer who comes from a family originated from China. She was born on February 19th, 1952 in Oakland, a major West Coast Port city in California a few years after her parents immigrated from China. As a child, Tan was always pushed by her parents to get into the honor roll in school and to have a successful career by becoming a doctor or a concert Pianist. Her parents already had her life planned out for her. Since Tan’s parent’s were from China and neither ever attended college, she already expected that she would be the first generation to finish an education and have a real job when she would grow up. Coming from a family who did not know english well, Tan struggled from having a broken english at first. In one
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One book I read“The Joy Luck club” is a story that focuses on Chinese Immigrant families who start a club known as The Joy Luck club. There would old Chinses games From the 18th and 19th century played such as a card game called Mahjong while feasting on a variety of traditional Chinese food like Chow Mein and Sweet and Sour pork. There would also be old stories shared from different families about their ancestors life living in the villages they came from. The whole idea of the Joy Luck club was to bring bring the Chinese community together to keep their traditions and costumes alive while trying to live in the United States. This story brought a close connection to me because I visit a club similar to the club Amy Tan speaks about in the story. Whenever I would go with my family, there would be a language session that teaches younger Albanian Americans how to speak Albanian as their second language, Albanian Folk dancing competitions, games, story telling about Albanian history and mythology, lots of traditional Albanian food to feast on, like a famous dish called Burek, which is a baked filled pastry made of thin flakey dough with either stuffed meat, cheese, or spinach. It is a good way to bring the Albanian community together and it helps to remind the people to always hold onto their culture and traditions which can be passed onto other generations just like the club similar to the Joy Luck Club by Amy
One book I read“The Joy Luck club” is a story that focuses on Chinese Immigrant families who start a club known as The Joy Luck club. There would old Chinses games From the 18th and 19th century played such as a card game called Mahjong while feasting on a variety of traditional Chinese food like Chow Mein and Sweet and Sour pork. There would also be old stories shared from different families about their ancestors life living in the villages they came from. The whole idea of the Joy Luck club was to bring bring the Chinese community together to keep their traditions and costumes alive while trying to live in the United States. This story brought a close connection to me because I visit a club similar to the club Amy Tan speaks about in the story. Whenever I would go with my family, there would be a language session that teaches younger Albanian Americans how to speak Albanian as their second language, Albanian Folk dancing competitions, games, story telling about Albanian history and mythology, lots of traditional Albanian food to feast on, like a famous dish called Burek, which is a baked filled pastry made of thin flakey dough with either stuffed meat, cheese, or spinach. It is a good way to bring the Albanian community together and it helps to remind the people to always hold onto their culture and traditions which can be passed onto other generations just like the club similar to the Joy Luck Club by Amy