Amy Eilberg

Cultural Significance “The Joy Luck Club and My Life” Culture significance is one of the key elements in The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. What I mean by cultural significance is that the book shows the historic, social and spiritual value for past and present generations of mothers and daughters. The novel is about four Chinese mothers who have migrated from China to the United States, all the mothers migrated for different reasons, some were looking for a better life for their daughters and…

The Significance of the “Two Halves of the Same Song” Many people are familiar with the yin-yang symbol. The symbol represents the idea that everything has both light and dark aspects, and that one cannot exist without the other. In “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan, a girl named Jing-Mei feels pressured by her mother to be a genius. Her mother tries to find something for her daughter to be a prodigy at – whether that is being a “Chinese Shirley Temple,” or memorizing state capitals, or even doing…

The book, Make Lemonade, the author, Virginia Euwer Wolff is sending a message to us, the readers, that we are very lucky to be where we are, and many aren’t as lucky as us. One of the main characters, Jolly, shows this through her struggles of poverty, teen pregnancy, unemployment, and sexual harassment. In the beginning of the book, the main character, Verna LaVaughn, or just LaVaughn is trying to find a job to save up for college. She finds a babysitting job for a teen named Jolly who has two…

Both Amy Tan in “Two Kinds” and Alice Walker in “Everyday Use” provide the theme of self realization through experience. Although both focus on mother daughter relationships, Tan tells her point of view from the daughter, Jing Mei. While Walker narrates through Mama’s point of view. In “Two Kinds” Amy Tan tells a story of a mother and daughter’s relationship with one another straining as the stress of conflicting dreams comes to a head. To the mother, Suyuan, America is the land of…

English Affected her Life Nowadays, English is the third most spoken language in the world. Approximately five percent of the world population speaks English. Overs the past years, English has been considered as the business Language. Furthermore, Amy Tan, who was born in California, grew up with parents who were both born in China. However, Tan has always loved language, and she often uses English to describe her emotions. Tan´s mother had experienced several difficulties when she came to The…

In “The Joy Luck Club” Waverly’s story opens with her mother’s, Lindo, upbringing. It is understood that she did not have a choice when it came to marriage as she was engaged by the age of two. The hardships that Lindo had to face very early on, gives a pathway on how she nurtures Waverly. By understanding Lindo first, you can only then understand Lindo and Waverly’s story together. Reverting to Lindo’s story, it starts off as her mother figuratively hands her over to Mrs. Huang as she does not…

The stories in the book The Joy Luck Club, Waverly Jong nor June Woo feel happy about their lives, Waverly Jong’s mother had ruined Waverly’s happiness by showing her off to her neighborhoods. June Woo’s mom had taken away happiness from her by giving her what she think is the best but was the worst to June. Waverly was mastering and actually liked to play chess, her mother used her as a way to give herself fame and happiness. Waverly didn’t like the way her mother acts and had ruined…

In the novel Joy Luck Club, the author Amy Tan tells the story of four chinese mothers and their american daughters. One of these mothers, An-mei Hsu greatly compares to a poem Mother’s Day by Daisy Zamora. This poem includes four different stanzas, which each correlate with a different part of An-mei’s character. The first and second stanzas of Zamora’s poem are about how the daughter wishes to have a mother like one of the: pretty mothers in the ads() but because she is: born of my womb() she…

depreciating their own culture. Tan, to begin with, effectively uses narration to demonstrate the shame Amy has of her heritage and her desire to fit in with American culture. For instance, Tan displays Amy’s insecurity of her Chinese heritage when she states, “[what] would he think of our noisy Chinese relatives who lacked proper American manners?” (par. 2). This example portrays that Amy views America highly by conveying their manners in an appealing way and negatively labelling her Chinese…

On October 31, 1998 Salem Rosetta Heart was born at South Stone Memorial. At the age of 14 she was diagnosed by her doctor, Karen A. Johnstons, with Schizophrenia, a disease that makes her unaware of who she is. Her father soon bought a hospital where the schizophrenic group of people could be cared for, called the Schiz Heart Mental Hospital. She sometimes imagines another person who she has named Samantha Dylan Heart. She unwillingly changes into two different people. Samantha is unpredictable…