Amy Lowell

The character who I sympathize the most from the story “Everyday Use” written by Alice Walker is Maggie. Meanwhile, in the story “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan I sympathize the most with Jing Mei’s mother. There are some similarities and differences regarding both characters and stories. In one hand, “Everyday Use” is narrated by a mother of two young women. The oldest daughter came back to visit her family due to her studying far from home. The youngest daughter, Maggie, is the one who inspires pity…

Katie, wanting to take piano lessons, offers Miss Tynmore an hour of cleaning in exchange for piano lessons. After much persuasion, Tynmore agrees, and Katie’s piano lessons commence. Tynmore tells the children to listen and watch, however they get distracted by a number of things. Francie stared cruely at the instructor's extravagant hat embellished with a bird on it. Later, told by her mother it is merely a mess of glue and feathers, Francie is scolded and told to stop staring. Francie can’t…

written by Amy Tan, a daughter of Chinese immigrants. Based on her detailed past, I feel like she put pieces of her life in the novel. Just like the novel, Tan’s parents immigrated from China, in look for a better future in America. Amy Tan was raised as an American while her mother still hold inside of her the old Chinese culture. Another thing I felt she compared her life into the novel is what her mother expected her to do as she grew up. Like the mothers in The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan parents…

u- Par’s” is lactated in 9090 Alta Dr West Las Vegas. The restaurant serves American (traditional) food, bakeries, and breakfast. There are 89 reviews and the average star is 5 out of 2.5. There are some of bad reviews and I am going to talk about two bad reviews. Miss.L wrote the first bad review in July 27th in 2016. She gave the one star rating because of the bad food. She went to the restaurant with three of her friends and unfortunately none of people liked the food. She said that she…

The story of the, "Mother Tongue" by Amy Tan, expresses a unique perspective on the English language in various people's perspectives of English. As a daughter of a Chinese immigrant, Tan writes about situations where she saw limitations imposed upon her mother because of her language skills. She also discusses the perceptions and judgments that people make when spoken to with imperfect English. Tan stresses in her essay the huge effect that her mother’s language had on her identity as a person…

There are some who think that a book is always better than the movie adaption. Then there are some who think just the opposite. The book “The Joy Luck Club” is book based on the lives of four women, Suyuan, Lindo, Ying-Ying and An mei. These women came to America to escape the harsh feudal society of China, while America has democracy. When Suyuan dies, the few members of the club invite her daughter June who is a new generation (learning American customs) to take her place. June must choose…

Culture is one of the key elements in Amy Tan’s the Joy Luck Club. The mothers talk about the Chinese culture and tell the lives of their daughters. The daughters were born and raised in the United States, which makes the American culture overtake their Chinese heritage. Although both the American and the Chinese cultures are presented in the Joy Luck Club, the amount of Chinese cultural elements is greater than of the American, because Tan wants her readers to gain a deep understanding of the…

In the article, Mother Tongue, the author Amy Tan explicitly demonstrates how she has developed her perspectives about language and the way of thinking under the influence of her mother’s limited English skill. The strategies Tan used to support her argument include vivid anecdote, striking contrast, and emotionally appealing parallelism. This journal is going to analyse how those rhetorical devices were being used during the delivery of Tan’s stories, and present my connections with her. At…

In “Two Kinds,” by Amy Tan, the relationship between a Chinese mother and her Americanized daughter, Jing-Mei, is described through the mother’s efforts to make her daughter a prodigy. At first glance, Jing-Mei’s mother appears to be controlling, uncompassionate, and disgruntle towards Jing-Mei. Although this impression is accurate at the beginning of the story, the reader begins to learn more about Jing-Mei’s mother and her past, as well as her intent with forcefully encouraging Jing-Mei…

The Joy Luck Club is a movie that was directed by Wayne Wang and the story written/based off by the book The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. This movie was created and came out on September 8, 1993. This movie is directed towards any audience that is viewing the movie and the reason for that is because the purpose of the movie that the author and writer want to show the audience is how the Chinese culture can change from one generation to another and also how strict and different the culture was…