Amy Heckerling

The essay “Mother Tongue” written by Amy Tan tells readers that she had two different types of languages that she speaks. One is used for the public and the second used at home with her mother. During a large conference she was telling about a book she had written and was using Standard English. Suddenly she remembers that her mother was there and never heard Ms. Tan speak this way. When Ms. Tan was at home with her mother they spoke in the same way and fashion. Many times, in the writer’s…

Tiger in the Shadows Ying-ying St. Clair is one of the four Chinese mothers in Amy Tan’s novel, The Joy Luck Club. Ying-ying gets thrown into her voyage when she falls from a boat as a child. She faces many trials such as marrying a bad man, having an abortion, giving birth to a stillborn, and becoming lifeless. These incidents qualify Ying-ying as a hero because she “learns to experience the supernormal range of human spiritual life . . . "(Campbell). According to a scholar, Joseph Campbell, a…

In The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan are mostly about mothers and their daughters' generation gap of miscommunications and misunderstandings. Some daughters and mothers may get along, but some don’t. In The Joy Luck Club there were four Chinese mothers: Ying-ying St. Clair, Lindo Jong, An-mei Hsu, and Suyuan Woo. Also with four Chinese daughters: Rose Hsu Jordan , Jing-mei Woo, Waverly, and Lena St. Clair each all have miscommunications and misunderstandings. Throughout the novel, Lena’s mother,…

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan contains many short narratives told by eight Chinese females living in America. In one of the narratives, Two Kinds, one can envision the enormity of the pressure and frustration exchanged between an expectant parent and a depressed child. Most children are told “you can be a prodigy, too” by their parents, which paves a long road of struggle and stress (132). In Two Kinds, the standards of an adult for a child can bring stress, frustration, and sorrow for both…

“Two Kinds”, authored by Amy Tan, is an inspirational short story that revolves around the idea of becoming independent and successful. The story follows Jing-mei who is the daughter of chinese immigrant, Suyuan Woo. Woo has looked to America as a fresh start for her daughter and herself after losing such great loss back home; her first husband, parents, two daughters, and twin baby girls. Coming from a tragic past, she has hope for Mei and tries to prevent her daughter from having the miserable…

The key conflict in The Joy Luck Club is that between mother and daughter. The mothers were all born in China so they grew up with traditional Chinese beliefs. The daughters, however, were all born in America or moved to America a young age, so their lives outside of the home were American. The source of conflicts in the book is mostly that the mothers are more traditionally Chinese and the daughters are more Americanized. The root of these problems can be traced back to the concept of happiness…

Amy Poehler was born on September 16, 1971 in Burlington, Massachusetts. Ever since her college days, Poehler has always had an interest in performing and comedy. She began cultivating her acting talents when she joined a team of improvisational performers while attending Boston College (LeVasseur, 2016). Collectively, they were known as “‘My Mother’s Fleabag’” (LeVasseur, 2016). After she graduated college, Poehler went to Chicago where she joined the theater troupe, The Second City (LeVasseur,…

The Joy Luck Club is not only the title of an amazing novel and now a movie; it is also the name of the weekly gathering that four Chinese women have participated in for many, many years. The movie The Joy Luck Club opens after the death of Suyuan Woo, the founding member of the Joy Luck Club. Suyuan passed away without fulfilling “an important thing on her mind” (Tan, 1989 p. 38): to be reunited with her twin daughters who she had left while escaping from the war in China. The other three…

How did Amy Lowell shape contemporary trends in american poetry? A quote of Amy Lowell shows both her determined personality and her sense of humor: "God made me a business woman, and I made myself a poet." During her career that spanned only twelve or so years, she wrote and published over 650 poems, but she is most often recognized for her work to open American readers up to contemporary trends in poetry. "Poet, propagandist, lecturer, translator, biographer, critic . . . her verve is almost…

In the film directed by Park Chul Soo entitled, 301, 302, the story revolves around two women who live in opposing apartments as the title suggests: Yunhee, a writer who deals with anorexia as a result of trauma from the sexual abuse incurred by her stepfather as well as the death of young child within their family meat locker. The other being a highly compulsive cook, Song Hee, who spends an inordinate amount of her time cooking, buying new ingredients and doing her best to surpass her past…