Amy Tan Essay

Yashna Bowen A98024314 HIEA 131- Daughter of Han Analysis A Daughter of Han: Perspective of One, Perspective of Many The text, “A Daughter of Han, An Autobiography of a Chinese Working Woman”, shows us much about the ideals and customs upheld by Ning Liao TaiTai, one of the many ethnically Han Chinese woman living through the later Qing period and the so called Republican Period of China spanning the breakdown of the empires to the formation of the People’s Republic of China. Ning Liao Taitai…

Carole Wilkinson’s fantasy novel ‘Dragonkeeper’ is set in Ancient China and follows a slave girl and her dragon companion as they protect a dragon egg while traveling towards the ocean. ‘The journey of a thousand li begins with a single step.” (82) The factors of a fantasy novel are clearly evident in the book ‘Dragonkeeper’ because the story has a possible structure with its limits, ‘Dragonkeeper’ is set in a present era but with a fantasy twist and the characters grow to become better people.…

Laura Garcia de la Torre does not have a favorite story for her daughter Sandi, unlike the rest of her daughters; and unlike the rest of the daughters, from early on Sandi experiences a sense of unexplainable loss. This elusive quality seems to defy interpretation in its foreshadowing of Sandi’s breakdown in her adult years, and reflects the mysticism around Sandi’s character as a whole. In Julia Alvarez’s novel How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, the doll figures largely during the pivotal…

In the book, The Face on the Milk Carton, the main character discovers a secret that has been harbored from her for years. The character, Janie Johnson, lead a normal teenage life. She attended her local high school, was in the progress of learning how to drive, and had a good group of friends. But one day while eating lunch, Janie was drinking milk from the cafeteria when she noticed the picture of a little girl on it. The milk carton had an ad for missing children around the area, and Janie…

Speak Someone once said, “Spending today complaining about yesterday won’t make tomorrow any better.” Some say that things only get worse before they get better, but as others say things only get worse. Speak is a meaningful story that teaches a valuable lesson for teenagers and people every where: Everything gets better overtime. In Speak the author uses conflict to teach people that you may go through hard times, but it will always be okay in the end. Melinda goes through many conflicts in…

One thing that Lily continues to struggle with is being motherless. Although the Boatwright sisters act as mother figures to her, she still does not have a real mother. To cope with her struggle, Lily goes to the places that her mother went to when she was at the house. For example, Lily goes to the honey house, the place that May said her mother stayed, and rests there. Physically being in the location that her mother once was soothes Lily. Another method that Lily uses is imagining her mother…

Though our world is prosperous, advanced, and ideal this is not the case for the isolate country of North Korea. Hyeonseo Lee is a North Korean refugee who presented in TED2013 on February 28, 2013. She spoke about her experience as a child being raised in North Korea and her escape; as well how she helped her family escape. Hyeonseo Lee was born in North Korea in 1983. She was raised learning North Korean propaganda. She claims that she was proud of her country and origin despite seeing…

In Amigo Brothers, the two friends, Antonio and Felix are both great boxers that eventually come face to faces in the ring. The two friends are forced to fight against each other to represent a club in their community. In the end, when the champion is going to be announced, Felix and Antonio both walked out together. Many people might say that this is a conflict with "no winner" since technically nobody won the fight; others may argue against that. The true question is, does every conflict…

The spectacular author and civil rights activist, Pearl S. Buck, was born on June 26, 1892, in Hillsboro, West Virginia. She grew up bilingual, knowing both English and Chinese since her mother was from China ("Pearl S. Buck”). She spent ten years of her life living in Nanjing, China. The Chinese in Nanjing were much more influenced by Western ideas than the Northern farmers, and Pearl Buck began to write about the young people's conflicts between the old and new ways of culture ("A Guide to…

Katie, wanting to take piano lessons, offers Miss Tynmore an hour of cleaning in exchange for piano lessons. After much persuasion, Tynmore agrees, and Katie’s piano lessons commence. Tynmore tells the children to listen and watch, however they get distracted by a number of things. Francie stared cruely at the instructor's extravagant hat embellished with a bird on it. Later, told by her mother it is merely a mess of glue and feathers, Francie is scolded and told to stop staring. Francie can’t…