Amy Tan

The American Dream means that with hard work and a little luck we can be anything we wanted to. Amy Tan, the author of “Two Kinds”, seems to say that although Jing-Mei’s mom can be bossy, she probably does this to help her daughter succeed. In this short story, “Two Kinds”, the main character, Jing-Mei Woo, also known as June, is forced by her mother, Mrs. Woo on learning how to play the piano and be the ultimate best. Mrs.Woo doesn’t really give Jing-Mei a choice, she wants to be able to brag…

lot of conflicts, right? well now , have you ever had any arguments with her about you being the perfect daughter? Some kids have others not so much because this is 2016 where everyone is different and free. but what if i told you an author named Amy Tan wrote a novel about a daughter named Jing-Mei and her mother. a novel in which Mom wants Jing-Mei to be the perfect chinese daughter but they're in america. At the beginning of the excerpt Two Kinds from the novel The Joy Luck Club, it started…

The story Fish Cheeks by Amy Tan is about a girl named Amy who felt ashamed of her Chinese culture. She felt strange that she was Chinese because everyone around her was American. Robert, Amy’s crush, came and that made her feel more self-conscious about her Chinese culture. Amy felt that the Chinese food that they ate was bizarre, she started thinking that their Chinese manners were disgusting to the Americans and she started acting fishy and different from her normal. She thought the food…

I drew a picture for the text “Fish Cheeks” by Amy Tan. In my drawing, I included many details to recall the story. The drawing is divided into two parts, one is people sitting down around the table which takes the most of the drawing space, and the other is at the upper-right corner of a Christmas tree and a calendar. First, the Tan’s relatives are sitting on the right side of the table while the minister’s family is sitting on the left side. I concentrated my drawing on the right side with…

Negative emotions, especially, seem to cling to the forefront of the mind and adversely affect self-esteem, self-confidence, and interpersonal relationships. Stories like those told in the movie The Joy Luck Club, based on the eponymous novel by Amy Tan and directed by Wayne Wang,…

In the short essay “Fish Cheeks”, Amy Tan tells us a story about how when she was younger she was embarrassed by her culture when her mother invited the minister’s family, which included the boy she was in love with, over for her Chinese Christmas Eve dinner. After the dinner she realized she had nothing to be embarrassed about because her culture is who she is. Which isn't something you can change. When I was younger I too was embarrassed by something I couldn't change. Since I was 10 years…

In Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club, the author chooses to primarily focus her novel on the miscommunications between traditional Chinese mothers and their American-born daughters via the use vignettes from almost every character. Throughout the novel, Tan writes about several characters that have made a hero’s journey according to Joseph Campbell. Campbell states that a hero’s journey includes: a departure, how a hero sets off onto their journey, a fulfillment, their goal that is being accomplished,…

Close Reading Assignment #1 The relationship between Laura and Lizzie is one that is strange and somewhat undefined. When reading the text one could safely assume that the two sisters have a form of a mother-daughter relationship in which Lizzie is representative of the mother figure and Laura; the daughter. Even though the ages of the girls is not stated, a reader could more than likely conclude that Lizzie would be older than Laura by a few years. However, embedded in the third stanza there is…

veryday life, conflicts arise that pose the decision of whether or not to tell the truth. In the New York Times article titled “How Honesty Could Make You Happier”, Judi Ketteler explores the effect being truthful has on her own morale and happiness/satisfaction. Ketteler’s 6-year-old daughter once claimed that telling truths made her feel “gold in her brain”. Inspired by this, Ketteler decided to test her daughter’s theory by keeping a truth journal. For several months, she recorded any…

Apple Pie Fourth of July: Picture Book Analysis The picture book Apple Pie 4th of July. Written by Janet S. Wong and illustrated by Margret Chodos-Irivine, is a piece of literary work that presents itself with many important themes that any child may, at one point in their early lives, find themselves struggling with. Wong does a very excellent job of trying openly address the issue that is confliction of identity and of having to conform to societal ideals or in our protagonist’s case the idea…