Amy Tan

The Setting of “A Pair of Tickets” by Amy Tan The setting of a story is defined as the time and place in which it takes place. In “A Pair of Tickets” the setting would be both the cities of Shenzhen and Guangzhou located in Communist China. The setting affects the protagonist in a major way. Although she was born in America she is of chinese heritage. Returning to her cultural homeland changes her drastically from the American woman she thought she was, to the Chinese-American woman she becomes.…

In the essay “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan. Tan emphasizes that we all speak in different languages in our own way, and how we are categorized by the way we speak. In this essay she is talking about how her Asian mom talks in a different kind of English and how that affected her growing up. Tan has a mother who is from Asia, she speaks in a language that Americans would call “broken English.” Tan said that she would all ways have to make phone calls or talk for her mom when they would go places…

The society suppose so much of the next generation that will lead the world one day, it is over whelming all the hopes we need to accomplish to become the ideal generation. The author Amy Tan in the short story “Two Kinds” genuinely makes us realise how we can’t forecast people future; they need to create their own path for themselves. Growing up with people that apprehend superior expectation of you is hard, Jing-Mei suffered of her mothers hopes that she had for herself all her life. The…

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…

Accepting One’s Culture in Amy Tan’s “Fish Cheeks” In “Fish Cheeks” by Amy Tan, the author captures the universal embarrassment teenagers feel introducing someone they care for to their family. In her retelling of the meal her family spent with her crush and his family, Tan initially responds with deep shame for her family’s behavior but she later learns to appreciate her unique cultural identity. Tan uses grotesque imagery, crude diction, and a commonplace symbol to convey how even if you…

Amy Tan, an author of ¨Mother Tongue¨ elaborates about how there's different types of Englishes a person can have or speak. “Lately, I've been going more thought to the kind of English my mother speaks. Like others, I have described it to people as ¨broken¨ or ¨fractured¨ English¨. Her mom who immigrated to America from China speaks English that is considered to be not advanced in Western society. In other words, her mother can’t speak English well as others. From the article, Tan’s position on…

with, Many kids and adults sometime want to fit in so bad that they can act they know nothing about their costumes they grew up with. In her memoir “Fish Cheeks” Amy Tan uses the relating feeling of embarrassment to express how a 14 year old is trying so hard to fit in with society , and loose the embarrassment her family makes her feel. Tan beings with introducing herself to the readers she also introduces the guy she had the biggest crush on when she was younger , Robert he is the reason…

Amy Tan is a bestselling author born in 1952. She has written several novels focused on mother-daughter relationships. In Mother Tongue, Tan analyzes the different “Englishes” she uses in everyday life and why some are considered better than others. Tan’s mother, a Chinese immigrant, speaks in what some call a “broken” form of English (543). She claims her mother is treated unfairly because of her fractured language. Because Tan grew up speaking the English of her mother, she could understand…

In “Fish Cheeks”, Amy Tan describes her Christmas eve dinner as catastrophic, being that she was fourteen, and the humiliation that she felt when her crush Robert, who was the minister’s son and his family had been invited to have a traditional Chinese meal with her family. But when she found out that he was invited to dinner, she felt so many emotions like fear, humiliation and discouragement and thoughts of what he might think of her and her families Chinese Christmas celebrations. “What…

Amy Tan, the author of “Mother Tongue” properly executes this essay by making her points through consecutive aspects and examples to proof the reader of the current cultural racism. Tan focuses on real stories, with enough details for it to make it believable and so to persuade the readers. She uses a soft and calm tone, which in this case, since she is writing for an audience who are ignorant towards this topic, it’s much more efficient than an aggressive or threatening tone. She is trying to…