Amy Tan

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…

In the novel “The Joy Luck Club” by Amy Tan, Tan depicts several different conflicts between four different Chinese mothers and their daughters. Each mother and daughter pair has their own separate stories and through these conflicts in each story, there are different life lessons that can be learned from. The first lesson comes from the mother An-mei Hsu, and her daughter Rose Hsu Jordan which teaches one to become confident and strong. The second lesson is from Jing-Mei Woo, also known as June…

Assignment Option 1: Single Character Analysis “Two Kinds” is a chapter in the book “The Joy Luck Club”, written by Amy Tan in 1989. The story, which somewhat mirrors Amy Tan’s own childhood and upbringing, tells of the difficulties in mother-daughter relationships, specifically the conflict between a Chinese immigrant mother, Mrs. Woo, and her American-born daughter, Jing-mei. In the story, we quickly learn that Mrs. Woo believes that America is the “land of opportunity” and feels…

The Joy Luck Club is a novel written by Amy Tan. It was published in 1989 and was her first novel that she ever released. The novel tells the story of four immigrant women from China moving to the United States and their stories with their four American-born daughters. It is said to be partially inspired by her own relationships with her mother. This book is one of those books that seems like anyone can relate to it in some way. This book includes so many different themes and it hits them…

Within each one of the four sections of the Joy Luck Club, author Amy Tan includes a foreshadowing and symbolic prologue. The themes of these prologues are a quick introduction to the main themes of the section, and they often include “Chinese-worries” that are faced in America by the mothers and daughters. In the first section, “Feathers from a Thousand Li Away,” the main theme is the relationship between the mother and daughters of the Joy Luck Club. In the first chapter, Suyuan had to leave…

Amy Tan author of The Joy Luck Club and many other books, though born in Oakland California traces her (family line/lineage/ancestors ) back to china. Tan’s parents had hoped her to be a doctor or concert pianist but at the age of ___she published (JLC). While living in oakland her family belonged to a group started by her mother, made up of other Immigrant families similar to theirs, who bonded together sharing stories, food, and playing the stock market. Her Book the Joy luck club is an…

very complex, however a mother would never let anything get in the way between the two of them. In the Excerpts Battle Hymn of The Tiger Mom by Amy Chua and Novel The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, the mother-daughter relationships are slightly bitter. While Amy Chua uses more of a tense yet caring tone, Amy Tan has a hostile and harsh tone against her mother. Amy Chua uses a tense yet caring tone in The Violin to express how Chua and her daughter's relationship is based of off love even though…

A happy and healthy mother-daughter relationship is one of the building blocks of society that if nurtured and treated the right way, can create two happy humans. In Amy Chua’s memoir “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom” and Amy Tan’s novel “The Joy Luck club” a mother in each story uses different tones and words to try and relieve tension. An excerpt from “ The Violin” in “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom” shows a mother and her daughter in a disagreement that is not dangerously angry, but mainly…

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…

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…