Amy Lee

In “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan, The two daughters can compare but are distinctively different as well. Waverly Jong grew up a child prodigy playing chess and Jing Mei was a pianist prodigy. Both girls thought their work was simple and it came naturally for them. Waverly had her own bit of fame and continuously brought home her awards and trophies. “We didn’t always pick the right kind of prodigy”(Tan 1). Jing Mei didn’t always realize she was talented at the piano, before this she tried everything…

Amy Tan’s The Bonesetter’s Daughter, is the story of a conflicted mothers and daughters who are discovering the family history and the lost relationships of their matrilineal line. Ignorant and blind to the past, Ruth’s mother, Liu Ling, is becoming forgetful, consequently Ruth sets out to rediscover her family. She acts upon her realisation to decide that the gap between her and her mother needs to be closed. Set between San Francisco in the late 20th century and Peking, China during World War…

‘’Tuesday Of The Other June’’ by Norma Fox Mazer is a realistic fiction story about a girl name June and her mom always telling her to stay out of trouble. But June runs into some problems with other people. In the begining June is happy with what is going on around her until a girl named June just like her comes to June's school. The other June is mean to June and June does as her mom has always told her to, stay out of trouble. The other june makes this hard for June. Finally June stands up…

mother being the one to protect the daughter from any danger and to push the daughter to her potential in life. Amy Chua’s Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom and Jing-Mei Woo’s The Joy Luck Club shows the frustration and belligerent attitudes in a mother-daughter relationship. The despondent tone in both stories give a perfect representation of this sort of complicated relationship. In Amy Chua’s excerpt “The Violin” is written from Chua’s perspective on how she interacts with her daughter when…

Growing up, due to Ben’s disability, Anna had a different childhood from her friends as she learnt to take care of Ben. She felt that there was a need for her to mature, as she knew that Ben depended on her so she taught herself to be more responsible. Through this experience, she also grows as a character, being sensitive of other’s feelings and putting others before herself. Anna learned to become more responsible through growing up with her disabled brother Ben. Anna took over her mother’s…

relationships. In Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom by Amy Chua and in The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, the reader can see the relationship through the eyes of the mother and daughter. Even though Amy Chua and her two daughters can be frustrated with each other, they all still care for each other and work through their problems. On the other hand in Amy Tan’s story obedience to her mother is based off of fear which makes their relationship full of hatred. In Amy Chua’s Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom,…

time to ask, "What else could this mean?” ― Shannon L. Alder. “Two Kinds” is about the bond between mother and daughter changing drastically throughout the story, which changes the perspective of freedom the daughter had. In the story “Two Kinds” Amy Tan shows how the character June advances the plot by having June change her views on how her mother treated her, and how the relationship between them fell apart. In the story, June’s feelings are ignored by her mother’s drive on making her a…

Amy Tan does a great job creating a cultural conflict between Jing-mei and her mom. Being from a different culture and living in a place where standards of society and cultural behaviors are different than what Jing-mei?s mom is used to, she wants to raise her daughter the way she would if they lived in China. Being born and raised in America by Chinese parents, changes the way Jing-mei thought of herself and her heritage while growing up. Her mother believed ?you could be anything you wanted in…

At a young age, children are exposed to different environments which can ultimately affect their character. Where and who they live with might determine how one grows up. For example, Amy Tan was embarrassed of the lack of English her mother knew because of how people treated her. She faced discrimination since everyone taught she should’ve majored in Math and not in English or creative writing. Ben Carson encountered racism and self-doubt. When he was young he felt stupid compared to other…

Two Kinds: Whose American Dream? America, commonly known as the home of the free and the land of opportunity, but do any of those things prove to be true if you do not see them from that positive perspective? In the short story Two Kinds, written by Amy Tan, a young girl is faced with the barrier of being a daughter to an immigrant women from China. The obstacles that we read about can be perceived in different ways, however, we only see them from the specific point of view of the daughter.…