Amy Carmichael

same thoughts about dreams and the future because everyone has different thoughts about it. There are two stories that at some points have something in common between a mother and a daughter relationship “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid and “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan. Kincaid writes about the advice a mother gives to her daughter mainly emphasizing which are the things she needs to learn to be a good wife in the future and to avoid being a bad…

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 Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club and in Bissinger's “Dreaming of Heroes” they both had a similar common theme, the children felt pressured to comply to their parents wishes or dreams for them. In these two stories Jing-Mei and Mike sometimes tried and sometimes they didn’t, their parents wanted them to live a better life than they did, and sometimes they didn’t understand. In Tan’s Joy Luck Club Jing-Mei’s expectations and her mother’s were very different. In a way Jing-Mei expected things…

Pixar is famous for producing films that encompass a complex mix of emotions. Think of the heart-rendering scene in “Up,” where a couple's marriage passes by in a mere minute or the nostalgia felt in “Toy Story,” where beloved toys come to life. A film that goes one step further is “Inside Out” which actually crafts a story that revolves around these emotions. At first glance, the movie appears to be one strictly for children considering it is a Disney Pixar movie focused around an…

Author Amy Tan, having grown up with a mother who did not have English as her first language, has experienced a very different set of circumstances than an average English-speaking household when it comes to communicating. In her article, “Mother Tongue,” she dives into her past, sharing the language struggles she saw her mother encounter, along with her own battles with finding her literary voice. What she found in the end was that we all, regardless of native tongue, use many levels to our…

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…

The Setting of “A Pair of Tickets” by Amy Tan The setting of a story is defined as the time and place in which it takes place. In “A Pair of Tickets” the setting would be both the cities of Shenzhen and Guangzhou located in Communist China. The setting affects the protagonist in a major way. Although she was born in America she is of chinese heritage. Returning to her cultural homeland changes her drastically from the American woman she thought she was, to the Chinese-American woman she becomes.…

sexual exploitation, and culture. But, today one of the most influential existing problems that a women experience is gender inequality. In Amy Tan’s award-winning novel, The Joy Luck Club, the role of Asian women is to stay inferior to men. Research shows that women’s right issue was a major problem in China, as well as many different parts of the world. Amy Tan portrays this symbolic issue in the novel The Joy Luck Club. According to Greenhaven Press’s Women’s Issue in Joy Luck Club, Chinese…