Amy Tan

English speaking or “mother tongue.” Mother tongue is the interpretation of the English language person who has not been raised to speak English correctly which has been Amy Tan’s mother. Amy’s mother has not been able to have the opportunity of having the same speaking skills as Amy because her mother has been a Chinese immigrant. Since Amy has had more of the opportunities to actually speak properly she has helped her own mother to evaluate her communication in order for other to understand…

Tan talks about the different forms of English she grew up with, from more sophisticated English that she learned in school, to more simplified English that she uses with her mother and her family. Tan talks about how she was ashamed of her mothers English when she was younger because of how society viewed and treated her mother because of the way she…

“Mother Tongue”, Amy Tan shares her and her mother’s personal experiences with discrimination after moving to the United States from China. She believes that immigrants who cannot speak perfect English are unfairly judged. Non-immigrants need to understand the hardships that are faced by people who move to different countries. Speaking about discrimination, Tan utilizes parallelism, simplistic diction, and cumulative sentences to create a broad, universal appeal. To begin, Tan explains her…

Amy Tan 's story “Two Kinds” is about a mother who brings her child to America to offer her a better life. The goal of the mother bringing her child to America is to allow her daughter the chance to be destined for greatness, even if it means having her daughter try out every opportunity to find out where her greatness might be hiding. “Two Kinds” written by Amy Tan, shows that mothers always know what is best for their children even if it means giving up their life in another country to come to…

the balance is geared more towards one side than the other. Amy Tan talks about a parenting style that values parental guidance over individuality. In "Two Kinds," Tan successfully illustrates major events in the story to portray how a parent pushing their own dreams on a child can cause resentment and rebellion towards the parent. Through Jing-Mei's excitement for learning, her confusion of her self-image, and through her actions, Tan traces Jing-Mei's transformation from obedient to rebellious…

Amy Tan's "Two Kinds", is a story that attempts to illustrate the pressure placed upon many young children to achieve success in life. Leading a successful life is an expectation that many Americans and immigrants alike share for their children, making it easy for the children of said parents to feel the immense weight of such hopes. Such hopes and dreams felt even more so by immigrant's children, bowing under the pressure of their parent's lofty aspirations, as in the of Jing-mei and her mother…

country such as the United States will experience moments where they learn about their parents native culture and how the customs in the United States are different from theirs. The stories “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker and “Rules of the Game” by Amy Tan show characters that face self-acceptance of the cultural experience in the United States.…

In many stories, the setting in which that story takes place has a great deal of effect on how or why the story takes the course that it does. An example of how important the setting really is to a story can be found in Amy Tan’s “A Pair of Tickets”. The narrator of the story and main character Jing Mei along with a few other characters, including her father, will be an example of how setting plays a part in affecting the characters and their actions within the story. The different encounters…

honor. In a way, she was able to save herself while keeping her promise to her family. Some may say that a promise is nothing more than words, but in China, promises are worth more than what one would think. The Red Candle, which was written by Amy Tan, starts out with Jong saying how she sacrificed her life to keep a promise to her parents. Then she goes on to compare her daughter, who was born and raised in America to how she is with promises. How with her she can promise to go to dinner,…

Jing-mei is the main character in the short story “ A Pair of Tickets”, by Amy Tan. Jing-mei undergoes some changes in her life. As the author presents the main character to us, she is a thirty six year old Caucasian women, who does not accept herself as being Chinese. However, after her mother’s death, Jing-mei realized the truth. Amy Tan in her short story emphasizes the changing of perspective views of Jing-mei’s life and pursuing the dream of her deceased mother. In my opinion, no one…