Amy Tan

“You could be anything you want to be in America”… this is the main ideology that many immigrant parents hope for their children’s futures. This hope would turn into a major conflict that characterize the short story Tow Kinds, written by Ammy Tan. In the story, the main character 's mother, Suyuan, tries hard to find the wright way that would lid to her daughter success. She strongly believes that her daughter, Jing, would be someone very famous and important only because she lives in America.…

The story “Two Kinds” of Amy tans shows us the conflict between the mother from China cultural and the daughter from American’s cultural. Suyuan, who is known as Jing-mei’s mother, suffers from her losses of a first husband and two babies in China. She believes that in the U.S everyone can be anything they want to be by working hard, even they are genius or prodigy. So, she keeps her daughter staying busy by scheduling her many differences activities such as coming to beauty training school…

The cultural differences described by Amy Tan in her short story, "Two Kinds", stand out boldly. There are two main themes described throughout the story, which would be conflicts between mother and daughter, and cultural differences. Both play a big part to contribute to the other. Therefore, in this essay, the focus will land on the cultural differences. Such a bold statement to readers is clear when Amy Tan uses sentences such as " "You look like a Negro Chinese," she lamented, as if I had…

In the short story “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan, a relationship is shown between a mother and daughter that exemplifies the complexities and intricacies between the two. Throughout the story, the mother chooses to showcase different musical talents towards her daughter, in hope that her daughter masters one and becomes a “child prodigy.” Meanwhile, the daughter chooses to find herself through her own means rather than through the dreams of her mother, which sets the theme of how the expectations of a…

In the story “Two Kinds”, by Amy Tan, an Asian-American daughter is faced with the pressures her mother puts upon her of expectations of success; in particular, the expectation is to become a young prodigy. Throughout the story, Jing- mei faces external and internal conflicts while struggling to find her own identity. While facing the struggles brought in her life, Jing- mei comes upon the realization that her mother believed in her and only wanted her to be the best that she can be. The theme…

Amy Tan wrote a short story, “Two Kinds”, about a Chinese immigrant mother and her 1st generation American born daughter. Centering around the mother and daughter’s relationship during her childhood in Chinatown, SanFrancisco and into her adulthood. This story is written in the daughters Jing-Mei ‘June’ perspective. Specifically the time when her mother signed her up piano lessons. It had all started because, Suyuan, her mother, wanted her to have a better life than she had in China, because…

Similarities and distinctions Alice Walker and Amy Tan are modern American writers. Both stories depicts relationships between mothers and daughters, their lifestyles, achievements and expectations. Both families are non - American origin. Alice Walker shows African American mother with two daughters. The old one is well-educated and successful. She holds in contempt her roots, though. Meanwhile, the young daughter is proud of her origin. Amy Tan presents the reader Chinese mother and daughter…

“Mother Tongue,” Amy Tan describes an important realization she had In 1989. Conducting a symposium in San Francisco where she discussed her well-known book “The Joy Luck Club.” This symposium was the first time that her mother was part of her audience. Not until then, Tan realizes that the academic English she is using to address the audience is different than the one she uses with her mother. Tan’s essay describes the exploration of languages and how it can be part of our identity. Tan…

could not speak correct English. Amy Tan are daughter, talks about how she was aware of the various ways to use English language, and tries to use the correct grammar that she had learned during her school life, and from books when she was invited to a program to give a speech about her book to a group of people. During Tan’s speech, she notices that her mother was sitting in the audience, which reminded her of the conversation she had with her mother. However Amy Tan, communicates about her…

When re-reading "Mother Tongue" By Amy Tan, the author has gone into details expressing a portion of her life growing up with the man Englishes that she has had. Between unconsciously switching from "proper" English to a " broken" form only spoken between her family, this has allowed her to overcome several adversities in her life. Due to these challenges, having a "limited" or "broken" language it still has made an impact and impression on her mother. The author's claim is that, even in her…