Mother Tongue by Amy Tan Essay

kinds”, and Marigolds, feelings are shared between both major characters. Those feeling being epiphany, anger, and nothingness. The emotions that are shared show how the character really feels about the situations that they are in. Nikan feels that her mother is running her life and she can't be herself. Lizabeth is angry that everyone around her is happy and she isn't, why aren't they angry like she is. In “Two kinds” and in “Marigolds” both Lizabeth and Nikan have somewhat of an epiphany in…

Love and hate is what drives a mother-daughter relationship. Many mothers want what is best for their daughters, but many times it is not seen the same way through the daughter's eyes. Amy Chua’s 2010 memoir Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom and Amy Tan’s 1989 novel The Joy Luck Club recall their experiences of their own mother-daughter relationship. Amy Chua is narrating experiences she recalls having with her daughter learning to play the piano using a tone that is very tense, but she is only…

“The All-American Slurp” by Lensey Namioka is a story about a girl and her family who immigrated to America from China and have a hard time fitting in. They are very embarrassing at restaurants because they don’t exactly know American table manners, but they are starting to fit in. The story shows how the cultures are very different, but also very similar. The Lin family is from a Chinese heritage. They never have dessert, never eat raw veggies, speak Chinese, and zip their celery…

“The Pair of Tickets” In the story, the Pair of Ticket written by Amy Tan’s, Jing-Mie speculate on the internal conflicts to prove how being ignorant and not embracing one own culture could make a person missed out on the most important element of life, heritage. In addition, the story signifies the challenges the second generation of American immigrant children struggle. Such as being bi-culture/cultural translation dilemma of identity and other obstacles they faced. The second generation of…

families in California was published by Amy Tan. One of the final stories in the novel is titled “Two Kinds”, which follows a young girl named Jing-Mei and her mother. The two had just recently moved the San Francisco, CA in the 1950’s. Throughout the story Jing-Mei struggles with living up to her mother’s high expectations while keeping herself content as well. Mei’s mother repeatedly damages their relationship while she tries to push her daughter to fame. Amy Tan had lived a very similar life…

The poem ”Grandma Ling” Amy Ling uses symbolism, imagery and smaller messages to show the theme Your love for your family only grows stronger the farther away you are. To start off, the theme is shown through using symbolism to show the theme. In the poem “If you can that howl deep another you'll reach china.” Ling uses this quote to represent their new home Pennsylvania is where they live now but their heart and history our in china ware also their family lives. And the hole that is being dug…

Thematic Observation In these two poems, both of them are describing the culture of Hong Kong. In “Mother Tongue”, the writer Tegan Smyth is half-breed of Hakka Chinese and Australia. She writes about languages, culture, and humanity, etc. This poem has illustrated that language plays an absolutely necessary and important role in awaring cultural identity as expected. Lots of expressions and characteristics of the two different places were frequently used to represent the difference between…

characters in the short story, "Two Kinds". Are the mother and the daughter. After facing the unimaginable in China, the mother moves to American to start over and gives birth to her daughter, the protagonist of the story. thought-out, the daughter's life, she encounters several things that she necessary didn't want to do. Learning the piano, dealing with high expectations later in life, and then realizing the gift that her mother gave her after the mother had passed away. The…

Think about conflicts you've had with your mother whether she doesn't see eye to eye with you or you don't see eye to eye with her, there's a lot of conflicts, right? well now , have you ever had any arguments with her about you being the perfect daughter? Some kids have others not so much because this is 2016 where everyone is different and free. but what if i told you an author named Amy Tan wrote a novel about a daughter named Jing-Mei and her mother. a novel in which Mom wants Jing-Mei to be…

In September of 2009, ABC began airing Modern Family. Still currently airing on TV, it is widely a popular hit across the nation. This well-known TV show focuses around one main family, and their significant others, ultimately airing three families. These three families structure varies drastically while their importance is constant. The main family, which would be considered your stereotypical heterosexual couple, has three children. The second family, consist of a homosexual couple with an…