Amy Eilberg

Tension In the short stories “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker and “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan, the main theme involved is the prolonged tension between mother and daughter that threatens their relationship and strong bonds. In the story “Everyday Use”, Dee argues with her mother about family heritage. In “Two Kinds” the mother pushes her daughter to be the best pianist she could be, but the daughter misunderstands her mothers strict methods as harsh and severe. The mothers will to push her daughter to…

force their children to do things that their children feel are either unnecessary or inappropriate for their age level? One narrator feels the same way when she complains to her mother, ”You want to be someone that I’m not!”(Tan 231). In “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan, Jing-mei, the protagonist of the story, has a difficult relationship with her mother because her mother wants her to be something that she feels she is not: a prodigy. However, in the end, Jing-mei’s conflict with her mother ends with an…

worthless, but it comes from afar and carries with it all my respectable intentions” This is one of the stories that one of the daughters hears from her mother and later on in the story she finds out what is the true meaning behind it. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan is a book and a movie. This Story is about three mothers and three daughters that have their conflicts, but ultimately, they always will love each other. In this book and movie you will read and get into the memory of each and one of…

whose parents migrated from Vietnam, I have been exposed to different types of spoken English whether it were grammatically correct or incorrect and broken down. My experience is similar to the experience written about in the essay, “Mother Tongue,” by Amy Tan, whose author points out her passion for language and discusses the different “Englishes” she grew up with and their advantages and limitations on her life. In the essay, Tan points out the several Englishes such as the “simple” English…

could not speak correct English. Amy Tan are daughter, talks about how she was aware of the various ways to use English language, and tries to use the correct grammar that she had learned during her school life, and from books when she was invited to a program to give a speech about her book to a group of people. During Tan’s speech, she notices that her mother was sitting in the audience, which reminded her of the conversation she had with her mother. However Amy Tan, communicates about her…

In the article “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan, a Chinese-American writer, shares her idea that we all speak a different kind of “Englishes” unconsciously and that we are sometimes categorized by the way we speak. Tan supports her argument by giving examples of her family's cultural background and describing how her mother was discriminated by retailers, stockbrokers, and doctors because her mother’s English seemed improper. Tan explains that language does not have to be uniformed and completely…

When speaking to others, we often forget is how we sound, and how we pronounce words differently from our peers. Amy Tan is a Chinese american author who wrote an article called Mother 's Tongue about her mother 's english affecting both of them in their lives. Tan noticed a lot of little details that were there with her mother 's English and her own. I noticed these details as well inside the article and came to the realization that people are discriminated against for having imperfect…

The short story I chose to do my two-page application on is Two Kinds from Amy Tan’s bestselling novel The Joy Luck Club. This short story within the book seemed particularly relevant not only because it is a sophisticated piece but it seems that Tan has gone through the process and achieves, in my opinion all of the goals of fiction as outlined by Minot in chapters 7-12 of The Genres. To begin with, the idea of reshaping fresh material, Tan does really well in this aspect as of Two Kinds,…

Joseph Campbell, the author of the novel, A Hero with a Thousand Faces, is most famous for discovering the repetitive cycle heros undergo -- referred to as the hero’s journey. The hero’s journey is separated into three overall sections, Departure, Fulfillment, and Return. Suyuan Woo, one of the main characters in the Joy Luck Club, undergoes a series of life events that Campbell has defined as the aspects of the hero’s journey. The departure stage of Suyuan’s life closely resembles Campbell’s…

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan showcases the disconnections between mother and daughters, particularly those of immigrants. In the book Mothers and Daughters: Complicated Connections Across Cultures, Alice H. Deakins, Rebecca Bryant Lockridge, and Helen M. Sterk make the argument that all women share one experience in common, being a daughter (90). While that argument is true, it is a little more complicated, each daughter goes through different experiences than others, as shown in The Joy Luck…