Amy Tan Essay

“Two Kinds” is a story based on a mother and daughter, and how they had their own opinions on how the daughter should be. The mother wanted the best for her daughter, but she also wanted her daughter become something she wasn’t, a child prodigy. The daughter tried to please her mother but in the end she just wanted to be herself, to stick to her own mindset, not her mother's. She tried everything in beginning that her mother wanted her to do, but later grew out of trying to please her mom…

The rhetorical devices tone and parallelism are used in both the memoir, Funny In Farsi, by Firoozeh Dumas, and the graphic novel, American Born Chinese, by Gene Luen Yang in order to entertain readers and develop the over-arching theme of self-acceptance. Dumas uses colloquial and comic tones in Funny In Farsi in order to keep readers engaged and understate the impact of the hardships she faced on her road to self-acceptance. In the chapter “I Ran and I Ran and I Ran”, Dumas tells the story of…

Family are the friends we do not pick by ourselves, but are born into. “The dress” by Julia Darling is a short story about the sisters Rachel and Flora, and their mother. The story focuses on the deterioration of the sister’s relationship but also on their relationship to the mother. The story also focuses on what happens to a family when it is missing love and communication. Throughout the story, the main topic is a certain dress, and this leads to a dispute having immense consequences. In the…

Don’t Play Favorites (A Description on life lessons you can learn from Everyday Use, by Alice Walker) Do you know anybody that plays favorites? In this story is about a sibling rivalry between two daughters, Dee and Maggie. There is also a tense relation between the mom and the daughters. The mom tends to play favorites with one of the daughters, Dee, and she tends to get everything she wants, when she wants. “Let me say right here, right now--you're right, we are.” (Buck). Some people even…

Reader-Based Analysis: “Two Kinds” focuses on a mother and daughter’s relationship. Jing-Mei’s mother faced many hardships in China. The mother lost so many near and dear to her. For the mother, America was the country to offer them great living and opportunities. Jing-Mei’s mother wanted to see her daughter as a successful person. Jing-Mei's mother classifies success for her daughter as being brilliant at something, therefore, Jing-Mei was forced to take piano lessons in order to be a child…

The legend of Mulan, a brave young Chinese girl who pretends to be a man and joins the army in order to help her old father, is an example of stories of women characters that take the non-traditional role of warrior. This figure that challenges traditional role models had been a source of inspiration for many young Chinese girls. Inspired by this legend, Maxine Hong Kingston narrates the powerful memories that she recalls of growing up in a Chinese-American family. In her book The Warrior…

Most of the time immigrants underestimate the difficulties they might face in their new destinations. Such as overcoming language barrier, adapting to the new culture and environment. One of the writers who discussed the issue of challenges immigrants face was Lan Cao. This essay will clearly analyze the weaknesses and strengths of the article "The Gift of Language" by Lan Cao. In the excerpt, the author tells about a Vietnamese girl and her mother who immigrate to America during the Vietnam…

‘’Tuesday Of The Other June’’ by Norma Fox Mazer is a realistic fiction story about a girl name June and her mom always telling her to stay out of trouble. But June runs into some problems with other people. In the begining June is happy with what is going on around her until a girl named June just like her comes to June's school. The other June is mean to June and June does as her mom has always told her to, stay out of trouble. The other june makes this hard for June. Finally June stands up…

Growing up, due to Ben’s disability, Anna had a different childhood from her friends as she learnt to take care of Ben. She felt that there was a need for her to mature, as she knew that Ben depended on her so she taught herself to be more responsible. Through this experience, she also grows as a character, being sensitive of other’s feelings and putting others before herself. Anna learned to become more responsible through growing up with her disabled brother Ben. Anna took over her mother’s…

A. Why did Jing-Mei’s mother form the Joy Luck Club in Kweilin? Her mother formed the club to give herself and her friends a break from the horror of the war that was going on in China. What kind of information did Jing-Mei learn from her mother’s story about leaving Kweilin? Jing-Mei learned that her mother carried a wheelbarrow of items that included her twin daughters, food, and fancy clothes. When she left Kweilin all that she had left was three of her fancy dresses. Why was Jing-Mei given…