Amy Tan

Tan was a Chinese origin but she was born in America and completed her studies there. the author was lacked of Chinese culture, which was causing a gap in her relationship with her mother, and there was a misunderstanding between them. Amy went to the China with her mother after she thoughts that her mother going to die. Tan was difficult to accept that it will stay with her mother on this trip but then I remembered…

subject matter that the paper is about. In one of my most recent articles I was instructed to break down and give a summary on the short story “To Kinds.” The summary aspect was not very hard to do at all. To start this short story is written by Amy Tan.…

examples. At times, we can lose our sense of heritage of who we are from the relationships with have with our parents. A disagreement or being embarrassed by our parents can cause someone to totally disconnect themselves from one’s own heritage. In Amy Tan’s short story “A Pair of Tickets,” Jing Mei begins to change as she travels to China with her father to meet her twin sisters for the first time. The journey that Jing Mei intel’s, will have her coming into reality of her true self. Growing…

in words. However, the relationship between a mother and her children does not always go well. In “Two Kinds,’ Amy Tan tells the readers about the relationship between the narrator and her mother. Their conflict becomes even bigger because of the two different generations and a linguistic barrier; these obstacles make the daughter and the mother continually misunderstand each other. Tan touches the readers with bitter moments and humor when the daughter and the mother try to achieve the American…

moral behaviors on the inside. Children don’t have the ability to fully identify themselves, and scorn their un-American culture. In the short story “Fish Cheeks,” written by Amy Tan, the narrator struggles to accept her birth given Chinese culture. Her family invites her crush and his family for a Christmas Eve dinner, and Amy is worried about how their American guests will react with her traditional Chinese…

to tell us. Also, the writer’s way to write this texts are very strictly divided, American culture and parent culture even them personality and skills. However, it is interesting that immigrants’ lives are very much to my stereotype. In text of Amy Tan, “Rules of Games, the Mother of main character who is from China said “We not concerning this girl, this girl not have concerning us”(30). it is a very difficult problems for immigration…

In the article of “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan (1989), it tells us the difference and relationship between “Broken English” and “perfect English”. It seems to others, Tan’s mother’s English is broken and fractured, but for Tan, her mother’s English is vivid and easy to understand, it is also Tan’s bridge of growth and understanding of the external things. Tan used her life experience to show that many people speak “Broken English” like her mother is not mean that they don’t know English. They know…

Mother Tongue Every language is unique in itself. Everyone have a different way to express them self. Yet why do we do not accept the people who are different? “Mother tongue” is are on the article written by Amy Tan. In the story, she discusses about her mother ‘fractured” English. How her mother faced difficulties because she had an accent when she talked. She said that “some says they understand none of it is as if she were speaking pure Chinses.” instead of praising her that she…

separate us from each other, but rather cultural diversity brings a collective strength that can benefit all of humanity.“ Authors Amy Tan and Sandra Cisneros have similar approaches to the idea of cultural differences. Both writers are the children of immigrant parents, and both allow their unique experience with culture to guide their writing . The works of Cisneros and Tan, particularly The House on Mango Street and “Woman Hollering Creek” as well as ”Mother Tongue” and “Rules of The Game”,…

better life, and better opportunities. The hardships and prosperities of immigration are told in stories like: Of Plymouth Plantation by William Bradford, Vietnamese Native Thankful for Chance Offered in America by Ronnie Thomas, and Mother Tongue by Amy Tan. Immigration has changed America by mixing and changing cultures and ideas while changing those who emigrate by giving them new opportunities to better their life otherwise unaccessible. In Of Plymouth…