Amy Carmichael

The story “Two Kinds” of Amy tans shows us the conflict between the mother from China cultural and the daughter from American’s cultural. Suyuan, who is known as Jing-mei’s mother, suffers from her losses of a first husband and two babies in China. She believes that in the U.S everyone can be anything they want to be by working hard, even they are genius or prodigy. So, she keeps her daughter staying busy by scheduling her many differences activities such as coming to beauty training school…

Finding one's own personal voice is important to individual identity and helps against social injustices. The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston is a memoir that invites readers into the life of one Asian American writer. Kingston narrates the story of several women in her family, and how they are oppressed and silenced by Chinese culture. During the narration, Kingston provides her own voice for those women in the culture that did not have the opportunity to speak out for themselves.…

The main characters from Under the Mesquite by Guadalupe Garcia McCall and Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai are both very similar and very different. Lupita,, the main character from Under the Mesquite, is a Mexican American girl who has to go through the struggles of her mother dying and being accused of trying to shy away from her heritage. Hà, the main character from Inside Out and Back Again, is a Vietnamese girl who has to deal with not knowing where her father is and is made fun of…

citizens to relocate to America to escape persecution and turmoil. Among the many who immigrated was Amy Tan’s family, whose journey migrating sculpted themes in Tan’s writing. Tan’s firsthand experience in two settings allows her to fully immerse herself into both and present clear definitions between the two, exemplified in The Joy Luck Club, written to reflect her journey transitioning cultures. Amy Tan’s Joy Luck Club incorporates symbolism, narrative structure, characterization of mother…

Many people would (and are) antagonizing Amy Chua for her parenting skills and her thoughts on Westerners parenting, though, one thing they don’t think about is cultural differences. Amy Chua, a professor at Yale Law School, wrote an article focusing on chinese parenting. SHe uses the term “chinese parenting” lightly, because she knows of many other parents that are of different nationalities that qualify in this parenting category as well. In this writing, Amy talks about chinese parenting and…

In the criticism, “Questioning Race and Gender Definitions”, Malini Schueller draws light to the expectations of Chinese women and how they are to be quiet and passive in nature. According to Schueller, “The initial story establishes the denial of expression women are condemned to in patriarchy and the cultural stranglehold the narrator must fight in order to express herself” (423). It is this cultural expectation that Kingston rebels against by telling her version of the unnamed woman.…

Eugenia W. Collier’s short story, “Marigolds”, and Amy Tan’s short story, “Two Kinds”, contain the common thread of loss of innocence. In Collier’s short story, Lizabeth has not lost her innocence, therefore neglects the fact that her actions may be causing harm to others. In Tan’s short story, Jing-Mei does not realize that her mother only wants her to accomplish the best. Each character progresses throughout the stories and realizes that their actions were not the best. This progression can be…

on the world is almost entirely based on one's cultural identity. This means that different people may see the same challenges or experiences in various ways, positive or negative. This cultural diversity is clear in stories such as “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan. This excerpt explains the conflicts between the main character, Jing-Mei and her mother. The constant clash between these personalities is brought about because Jing-Mei’s mother, who was born in China, expects…

“Everyone's dream can come true if you just stick to it and work hard.” In this quote, Serena Williams says that she can accomplish anything when you put your mind to it. Serena Williams says this quote because she has struggled with many problems in her life such as losing tennis against her sister, Venus. Serena Williams is a game changer because she is so determined to face her problems and stand her ground. In 1981, Serena Jameka Williams was born in Saginaw, MI. Her parents are Oracene…

The Joy Luck Club is a novel written by Amy Tan, an American writer who was born to Chinese immigrant parents in Oakland, California, in 1989. In her work, Tan often explores the mother-daughter relationship and the misunderstandings between Chinese and American culture. The Joy Luck Club is Tan’s best-selling novel. It was a novel popular enough to be adapted into a film release. In the story, Tan focuses on four Chinese immigrant families who joined the San Francisco version of the Joy Luck…