Mother Tongue by Amy Tan Essay

[America is the land of the free and the home of the brave. It is where people from all over the world come for a fresh start and a better opportunity than they had in their country.] Jing-mei’s mother decides to come to America from China to get away from all the things she had lost including her mother, father, home, husband and twin baby girls. When she came to San Francisco in 1949, she knew that things were going to get better. She decided that her daughter, Jing-mei, is going to be a…

I am Sam, is a movie about a men who has an intellectual disability, also known as a developmental disability. It is also, about a loving and kind relationship between a father and a daughter. Sam has the IQ, of an average seven old child. In the movie a lawyer says that Sam has autistic tendencies. Sam takes in a homeless woman, because she needed a place to sleep and they have a little girl together. Sam becomes a single father, after the homeless woman leaves Sam. He has a little girl, named…

In “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior” Amy Chua goes on to describe this as “Western” thinking. Is this why the Chinese and a multitude of other Asian countries test scores tower above those of the average child raised by western parents? According to the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development the United States currently ranks twenty-eighth on the global education chart in math, science, and reading, while Asian countries took the top five spots on the chart. Amy Chua is a…

This time we entered Dior, with a dozen of mainland girls selecting lipsticks. When the shop assistant standing in the front of the shop rushed toward us, I switched to Cantonese to speak with my mother. This time, she did not use fluent Mandarin to greet us but simply dropped a “lei hou” (hello in Cantonese) and then stepped along to let me choose what I want. Although the shop assistant still explained all my questions and provided advices, she…

main character of The Joy Luck Club, Jing Mei. Who is Jing Mei? The daughter of Suyuan Woo, Mei is the youngest of her late mother’s three children. When Mei was a child living in China, life was pretty rough because her family were very poor. So her mother became more active and created a social club where she held gatherings for her close friends and family in order to raise money to immigrate abroad. Woo decided to name this social club, The Joy Luck Club, because the club was so financially…

The American Dream means that with hard work and a little luck we can be anything we wanted to. Amy Tan, the author of “Two Kinds”, seems to say that although Jing-Mei’s mom can be bossy, she probably does this to help her daughter succeed. In this short story, “Two Kinds”, the main character, Jing-Mei Woo, also known as June, is forced by her mother, Mrs. Woo on learning how to play the piano and be the ultimate best. Mrs.Woo doesn’t really give Jing-Mei a choice, she wants to be able to brag…

By the age of nine, she is called the “Great American Hope” (97). Her mother Lindo is very proud of her daughter’s achievement in chess and she wants everyone to know that this chess genius is her daughter. She takes Waverly to visit many shops without buying anything, only so that she can tell people that “This is my daughter…

I felt very fortunate to have Ms. Bear as my piano teacher. When I heard my friends talk about their piano teacher, they complained how strict she was. Although I thought some of them were better piano players than me at the time, I did not relate to the pressure they felt when they had to do recitals or when they told stories of their piano teacher yelling at them when they did not play right. Ironically, those friends are the ones that ended up quitting earlier or to my knowledge no longer…

to believe that you will ever be proven wrong in these circumstances. In the short story, "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan, Jing-mei tries to fight off who she's not but is compelled by her mother to become the prodigy that she's always hoped for in her daughter. These two forces collide, causing conflict within their relationship where Jing-mei faces the tough reality that she cannot be what her mother wants her to be because of the high expectations parents have for their children, but what she aspires…

birthplace to understand more of her heritage and why her mother and grandmother are so proud to be Korean. It is then decided that she would return to America and interview her grandmother’s story of living in socially repressed and broken Korea. Audience: Still Life with Rice is intended more for females, given the explicit details of being a woman. It also captures the hardship Baek faced and readers interested in a war story through the eyes of a mother instead of a soldier. Still Life with…