Amy Lee

I felt very fortunate to have Ms. Bear as my piano teacher. When I heard my friends talk about their piano teacher, they complained how strict she was. Although I thought some of them were better piano players than me at the time, I did not relate to the pressure they felt when they had to do recitals or when they told stories of their piano teacher yelling at them when they did not play right. Ironically, those friends are the ones that ended up quitting earlier or to my knowledge no longer…

time where you might've thought to yourself, "I'm not enough," or "I will never be enough." With this mindset embedded into your brain, it's hard to believe that you will ever be proven wrong in these circumstances. In the short story, "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan, Jing-mei tries to fight off who she's not but is compelled by her mother to become the prodigy that she's always hoped for in her daughter. These two forces collide, causing conflict within their relationship where Jing-mei faces the tough…

between world war II and the Korean Civil war. She left during the Japanese occupation and again during the korean civil war that now divides her family, but be becomes victorious and continues her successful ch’iryo practice in California. Occasion: Lee is the author of national bestseller Still Life With Rice, and its sequel In The Absence of Sun, memoirs in which she documents her family's experience in war-torn Korea from the 1930s to 1997. Born in Seoul, South Korea, her family emigrated…

ways and customs. In the case of Amy Tan, her mother was affected by her inability to speak English as coherently as others. Her “broken English,” as Tan calls it, caused her to be treated unfairly in society. In “Mother Tongue,” Amy Tan discusses this phenomenon in American culture, and uses stories from her own life to develop a unique stance on the issue. Through the lens of personal anecdotes and other appeals to pathos, Amy Tan connects with…

Throughout both stories“Two kinds”, and Marigolds, feelings are shared between both major characters. Those feeling being epiphany, anger, and nothingness. The emotions that are shared show how the character really feels about the situations that they are in. Nikan feels that her mother is running her life and she can't be herself. Lizabeth is angry that everyone around her is happy and she isn't, why aren't they angry like she is. In “Two kinds” and in “Marigolds” both Lizabeth and Nikan…

but many times it is not seen the same way through the daughter's eyes. Amy Chua’s 2010 memoir Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom and Amy Tan’s 1989 novel The Joy Luck Club recall their experiences of their own mother-daughter relationship. Amy Chua is narrating experiences she recalls having with her daughter learning to play the piano using a tone that is very tense, but she is only wanting the best for her daughter, Lulu. Amy Tan narrates experiences she, as the daughter, has with her mother trying…

“The All-American Slurp” by Lensey Namioka is a story about a girl and her family who immigrated to America from China and have a hard time fitting in. They are very embarrassing at restaurants because they don’t exactly know American table manners, but they are starting to fit in. The story shows how the cultures are very different, but also very similar. The Lin family is from a Chinese heritage. They never have dessert, never eat raw veggies, speak Chinese, and zip their celery…

“The Pair of Tickets” In the story, the Pair of Ticket written by Amy Tan’s, Jing-Mie speculate on the internal conflicts to prove how being ignorant and not embracing one own culture could make a person missed out on the most important element of life, heritage. In addition, the story signifies the challenges the second generation of American immigrant children struggle. Such as being bi-culture/cultural translation dilemma of identity and other obstacles they faced. The second generation of…

families in California was published by Amy Tan. One of the final stories in the novel is titled “Two Kinds”, which follows a young girl named Jing-Mei and her mother. The two had just recently moved the San Francisco, CA in the 1950’s. Throughout the story Jing-Mei struggles with living up to her mother’s high expectations while keeping herself content as well. Mei’s mother repeatedly damages their relationship while she tries to push her daughter to fame. Amy Tan had lived a very similar life…

The poem ”Grandma Ling” Amy Ling uses symbolism, imagery and smaller messages to show the theme Your love for your family only grows stronger the farther away you are. To start off, the theme is shown through using symbolism to show the theme. In the poem “If you can that howl deep another you'll reach china.” Ling uses this quote to represent their new home Pennsylvania is where they live now but their heart and history our in china ware also their family lives. And the hole that is being dug…