Kaithlyn Aboagye’s Outline I.Major Characters: A.Janie Mae Crawford : curiosity ,adventurous, confidence A beautiful light skinned African American woman who was on a quest for love and in search for her own sense of her own identity and independence. She struggled between meeting her own desires and following what she was supposed to do. By the end, she finds her own independence and self-love B. Tea Cake: carefree, supportive, passionate…
Waverly Jong is a young lady who lives with her mom, Mrs. Jong, and her two more established siblings, Vincent and Winston. Her family is of Chinese plunge and they live cheerfully in occupied Chinatown, San Francisco. Waverl'ys mother is exceptionally strick and tries to bring up her kids as disiplined as could be allowed. The Jong's gone to the first yearly Christmas party at the First Baptist Church where the kids each got a unique present from Santa Claus (one of the congregation individuals wearing a red suit with a fake cotton facial hair). Every kid got the opportunity to pick their present from the choice gave.…
The reader may come to realize that they affect other's lives in unexpected ways. On the other hand, Tan tells a different story. At the end of the story, Tan's mother expressed, "' But inside you must always be Chinese. You must be proud you are different.…
Lost Names by Richard Kim Richard Kim’s short story “Lost Names”, is a historical fiction piece taking place in 1940, in the midst of Japan’s imperial occupation of Korea during World War II. The story follows a young boy’s daily routine, until he is interrupted to undergo an infamous ritual imposed upon colonized Koreans by the Japanese—the replacement of their native names with Japanese names. The boy is trying to understand the bleakness of his surroundings and avoid the pain of being privileged compared to his peers (his father is denoted as a “rich man”). Themes of honor, shame, identity, race, and family are present throughout. The story focuses around the practice of renaming Koreans.…
The conflict in this chapter is mostly internal because you are often in Waverly’s thoughts. How she felt embarrassed and humiliated by her mother at the age of ten. And how after even though she has grown, she still feels that her mother just doesn’t get it. When Waverly was so angry about how her mother had made her see Rich as a pathetic man, she thinks, “I had to tell my mother – that I knew what she was doing, her scheming ways of making me miserable (199).” The struggle resides within Waverly, she doesn’t know how to tell her mother that she is going to marry a man, who is opposite of their culture.…
In the short story “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan, the author creates a conflict between a Chinese mother and her daughter. The relationship between the mother who wanted her daughter to be prodigy, and her daughter who refused to be prodigy is presented (43). She uses dialogue, irony, similes and metaphors to illustrate and set her writing. Tan’s main message that stands out in the story is parents-to-kids relationship, in this case mother-to-daughter relationship.…
Nowadays, books aren’t as popular as they use to be, which is unfortunate for countless of reasons. For, a great amount of books & stories, if not all, teach us beneficial and important aspects of life. As a matter of fact, The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan, is a wonderful example. In this novel Tan shows how these four mothers come to America with an interesting past who have their daughters grow up in America. Tan shows how these moms are focused and influenced by their daughter’s decisions, and in the process the mothers learn their daughters can 't be everything they want them to be, to respect their choices, and the mom’s each learn to accept them for who they are because they can’t change them.…
Ruisha Yang The Woman Warrior A novel can be considered as a form of art while it imitates our internal life and experiences in the world or as a crazy telescope that allows us to explore the life of minds. However, the plot is the structure of a novel. As Culler implies, “Aristotle says that plot is the most basic feature of narrative, that good stories must have a beginning, middle, and end, that they gave pleasure because of the rhythm of their ordering...…
Li-Young Lee, an award winning contemporary poet, was born to a prominent Chinese family which faced political persecution. Consequently, Lee grew up as a political exile and a refugee. Lees past and his family greatly influence his poetry and allow him to reach more universal topics in his poetry. In “I Ask My Mother to Sing”, Lee describes the disconnect existing between him and his Chinese hertitage through an anecdote. The loss of Lee’s father is addressed in “The Weight of Sweetness” and Lee’s resistance to letting go of the past is examined in “For A New Citizen of These United States”.…
Parents seem like they always push their kids to do something that they don’t want to do. Have you ever wondered why parents often force their children to do things they don’t want to do? “You want me to be someone that I’m not” (Tan 231). “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan. The conflict in the story was that Jing-mei’s mother wanted her to be a prodigy but she didn’t want to listen to her mother.…
The play “Trifles” by Susan Glaspell and “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin both focus on their women protagonists and the desire for freedom both women have from a male dominating society. Essentially, both authors depict the longing for freedom between these women through the use of characterization, symbolism, and situational irony. In “Trifles” Mrs. Wright had murdered her husband in order to gain her freedom from the restraints that were put on her due to her marriage. Prior to being Mrs. Minnie Wright she was Ms. Minnie Foster.…
Mothers contribute a lot to their kids’ lives especially when it comes to their daughters. It does not matter if a mother does too much or too little there is always a big impact on their kids’ life. This is shown in two stories written by two ladies, Tillie Olsen, who wrote “I Stand Here Ironing” and Amy Tan who wrote “Two Kinds.” These two authors showed the relationships between the mothers and their daughters. Even Jing-Mei in “Two Kinds” struggled with her mother not let her be who she truly was, and Emily in “I Stand Here Ironing” struggled with the diseases and all miserable things in her life, their mothers showed them love and care in the different ways.…
Expectations in The Joy Luck Club In our lives, there are many times when the people around us expect us to achieve the goals that are set for us. When we try to reach these expectations, sometimes we lose who we were before. In The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan conveys the message that the expectations of other characters for the women cause them to change in a way that hinders their ability to express their true selves.…
There exists a stereotype about the children of immigrants: their parents press them hard to be successful, to be more than the ordinary, to avoid the struggles they themselves once faced. Those parents, perhaps, see the success of the future generation as the fruits of their own labor. People often hold the idea that immigrant parents are living vicariously through their children. In many ways, as they sometimes are, this stereotype is not far from the truth. Such behaviors are observable in the stories and memoirs of immigrants’ children; for instance, Jing-mei of Amy Tan’s “Two Kinds”.…
and Mr. Wright are perhaps the most important characters of the play; the murderer and victim. Although neither character makes an appearance, one of them in jail and the other dead, much is inferred about them and their relationship through the dialogue of the characters, particularly Mrs. Hale who was their neighbor. It is a widely known fact by all the characters that Mrs. Minnie Wright was oppressed, mainly by her husband, but through Mrs. Hale’s recollection, we discover about the life of Ms. Minnie Foster. Before she was wed, Minnie Foster “used to wear pretty clothes and be lively…one of the town girls singing in the choir” (Glaspell 322). But there seemed to be a change after she married Mr. Wright; Minnie Foster seemed to die and the shell of what remained was left as Mrs. Wright.…