Amy Tan

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…

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…

Both Hulga (Joy) in “Good Country People” and Wangero (Dee) in “Everyday Use” have become lost in their own right. Neither knows what to do in order to break free from their own confusion. In fact, they both go through a process where there think they are superior to others. In the story, “Everyday Use”, the main character originally named Dee changes their name to “Wangero” to escape the oppression that is attached to the name Dee (A slave master gave it to one of her ancestors). Wangero…

“Rice Husband”. This story is told from the point of view of Lena St. Clair, daughter of Ying-Ying St. Clair. At the beginning of the chapter Lena mentions how she “believe[s] [her] mother has the mysterious ability to see things before they happen” (Tan 149). Throughout the story Lena talks about how her and her husband, Harold, met. She tells how they fell in love, moved in together and got married. All the while she feels uneasy about little things that happen in their relationship.…

Amy Tan focuses on how communication is extremely important in any types of relationships such as mother and daughter, spouses, and children. She shows us how we need to speak up and say how we really feel unless there will be misinterpretations that will damage our relationships with our loved ones. In the beginning of the book we see that Ruth has found her mother's manuscript a and is very hesitant to read it but decides to anyway. As Ruth reads it throughout her day we notice that Amy Tan…

The novel Women of Tammuz, written by Azucena Grajo Uranza, embodies the Filipino’s way of living and how they cope with the events happening around them in the Philippines during the Japanese era. As history suggests, the Philippines was colonised by the Spanish, then the Americans, and lastly, the Japanese. Numerous events happened in that span of roughly 400 years, and like other events, the rest is history. Historically speaking, the Women of Tammuz tackles on the perspective of Japanese…

1. Why was Jing-mei taking part in the Joy Luck Club? -After the death of her mother, Jing-mei Woo was asked to fill the open seat in the Joy luck club that her mother had left behind. 2. How many Joy Luck Clubs have there been? -There was 2 Joy Luck Clubs, The other one taking place in China during the Sino-Japanese war. 3. Why did Jing-mei’s mother form the Joy Luck Club in Kweilin? -The Joy Luck Club was formed to take the mind off of the ongoing war. 4. Why did the women in the club…

The two texts “Finding Her Way” and “Kylie’s Project” tell about two girls named Angela and Kylie who face cultural differences and misunderstandings about disabilities. “Finding Her Way” by, Linda Sue Park features the main character Angela who immigrated to the US from Korea. Being an immigrant brought many challenges because she stood out from her other classmates. “Kylie’s Project” features Kylie who is a wheelchair bound girl that often feels trapped by not being able to walk or explore…

In the book In Order to Live Yeonmi Park writes about what she had to do in order to survive living in North Korea and all of the events that happen to her during her escape to South Korea. Even as a young girl Yeonmi would struggle to stay alive and death was always around the corner in North Korea. This constant struggle didn’t end when she escaped North Korea to go live in China. Then the struggle for survival led up all the way till she arrived in South Korea then it became a struggle to fit…

“Love Behind The Shadows” is a short story based on a twenty year old girl named Ivory Grayson, whose mother made a compromise with an orphanage center before her death to care for her daughter, after Ivory’s father, Harold Davis abandons them. Alternatively, Ivory was later accepted to University of California in Santa Cruz and becomes friends with her sisters, Ruby and Lauren Davis, which she is unaware of at first. There is a sudden twist when she comes across her father and he demands her to…