Amy Tan

In “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan, Tan says “In fact, in the beginning … and I tried each one on for size.” These few sentences show Tan originally wanting to be a prodigy. She was content in attempting to be what her mother wanted to be; she only did so because her mother desired to be famous and wealthy. This would soon change when her personal identity opposed her culture and mother. “I had new thoughts … I won’t be what I’m not,” (Tan). Tan’s personal identity disregarded her…

In the article "Mother Tongue" by Amy Tan, the author is talking about how growing up she had two different sets of English to use. A broken English with her mother and a more structured English with everyone else. She also sometimes had to speak on the phone for her mother because it was hard to understand her. I can understand how hard it is to understand someone who doesn't speak English very well. When she claimed, she was angry with her mother and even at the people treating her mother…

Amy Tan’s “Two Kinds” is a story that resonates heavily with me. It delves into the commonly hidden or taboo discord that happens between parents and children, specifically among mother and daughter. In this essay, I will explore this dynamic further because in my youth and into adulthood I have struggled with similar woes. As before stated, this isn’t a topic in which people are typically comfortable discussing, but I believe that there is healing in communication and these conversations are…

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Rodriguez, Mother Tongue by Amy Tan, and The “F” Word by Firoozeh Dumas. When Richard Rodriguez, in his memoir Aria: Memoirs of a Bilingual Childhood, began to speak English, it altered his relationship…

The Chinese way of life in Amy Tan’s story, “A Pair of Tickets” is described by the scenery, the influence of the American lifestyle, and the unbreakable bond of family. When May and her family arrive at in Guangzhou, they take a taxi into the city. Before reaching the city, May describes the outskirts as being very crowed while the taxi weaves in and out of traffic. As the taxi driver continually honks the horn, May notices rows of apartments with laundry hanging over the balconies above her.…

Undeniable Bond In the heat of the moment we can say things that can cut like a knife and leave a scar that will never completely go away. Instead, with time it will fade and so will the pain associated with that scar. Amy Tan explains this with her relationship with her mother in “The Most Hateful Words.” excerpted from her memoir, The Opposite of Fate, published by Penguin Books in New York in 2003. This is a story of a woman and how her relationship with her mother was of one that included…

short stories during this week. All three stories had one common factor of strong and impressive characters, and the character traits explained in the notes are well used and applied differently in each story. The story of “Rules of the Game” by Amy Tan is about a Chess prodigy who lived on Waverly Place in the Chinatown of San Francisco. Waverly Jong, is the major character in this story, she is the protagonist who self learned chess at a young age. Like the story tells, the six year old girl…

situation which caused many doubts that became stressful towards them. However, despite some obstacles such as nationality and inequality, today Amy Tan and Brent Staples are professional and successful writer. Both Amy Tan and Brent Staples were born in the United States. Amy Tan explained how difficult it was for her…

Se Habla Espan᷉ol and Mother Tongue Tanya Maria Barrientos and Amy Tan are similar but also contain some key differences. Barrientos and Tan are children of immigrants that are ashamed of their families heritage. Although Barrientos and Tan were raised within different cultures, they are both ashamed of where they came from. As Barrientos says, “I wanted to call myself Latino, to finally take pride, but it felt like a lie” (631). Barrientos wanted to speak her native language, which was Spanish…