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    Amy Tan is a persuasive author because of her works such as, “Mother Tongue”, “A Pair of Tickets” and “The Joy Luck Club”. These works portray the mother-daughter relationship which is considered a spiritual act of connectedness. Some of her works also portray the negative side of this mother-daughter relationship. Another main thing that’s in Tan’s Stories is the “conflict faced by Chinese Americans who find themselves alienated both from their American milieu and from their Chinese parents and…

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    The character who I sympathize the most from the story “Everyday Use” written by Alice Walker is Maggie. Meanwhile, in the story “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan I sympathize the most with Jing Mei’s mother. There are some similarities and differences regarding both characters and stories. In one hand, “Everyday Use” is narrated by a mother of two young women. The oldest daughter came back to visit her family due to her studying far from home. The youngest daughter, Maggie, is the one who inspires pity…

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    Culture is one of the key elements in Amy Tan’s the Joy Luck Club. The mothers talk about the Chinese culture and tell the lives of their daughters. The daughters were born and raised in the United States, which makes the American culture overtake their Chinese heritage. Although both the American and the Chinese cultures are presented in the Joy Luck Club, the amount of Chinese cultural elements is greater than of the American, because Tan wants her readers to gain a deep understanding of the…

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    Amy Tan’s novel, The Joy Luck Club utilizes numerous amounts of literary conventions to create an extraordinary thought provoking novel. In this passage, the daughter, Jing-mei, discovers her long lost sisters are alive and live in China. She later begins to compare herself to the older generation of the Joy Luck Club seeing the vast differences among the generations. Jing-Mei is revealed to have an internal conflict relating to her heritage. Every difference she finds between the mothers and…

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    that. The passages show how one's identity is created through realization in a culture and pride. First, identity is created by the realization of one’s culture. In “Fish Cheeks” Amy Tan didn’t want to be a Chinese girl. She wanted to be an American girl. When her family invited Amy's crush over for Christmas Eve dinner, Amy was so nervous because she knew how her family…

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    Amy Tan’s Argument What is an author’s purpose of creating a work of literature? An obvious reason as to why authors write books is to spark a debate. Authors want readers to have discussions over the text they’ve read. Amy Tan is no exception and succeeded in getting her readers to dispute over her works. For instance scholars argue over whether the narrative beginnings in The Joy Luck Club took a feminist view point or if the beginnings were there to analyze cultural identity (Romagnolo).…

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    Amy Tan Culture

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    in your lifetime. When you were young did your parents ever make you participate in something you did not enjoy? This is how Jing-mei felt in the story “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan. In the beginning of this story the main character states, “After seeing, once again, my mother’s disappointed face, something inside me began to die (Tan 19)” She did not enjoy disappointing her mother but an experience like this can pull a child two different directions. Jing-mei could have grown to try to be perfect in…

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    mother being the one to protect the daughter from any danger and to push the daughter to her potential in life. Amy Chua’s Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom and Jing-Mei Woo’s The Joy Luck Club shows the frustration and belligerent attitudes in a mother-daughter relationship. The despondent tone in both stories give a perfect representation of this sort of complicated relationship. In Amy Chua’s excerpt “The Violin” is written from Chua’s perspective on how she interacts with her daughter when…

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    by looking at a piece of literary work, whether it is in a cheerful sense or a dark and gruesome side of the picture. All-in-all, the focus of literary artwork ranges from many fields of societies and cultures in the world as shown in Two Kinds by Amy Tan in the shape of Jing-Mei (the modern-cum-fashionable representation of American society) and her opposite Jing-Mei's mother (The narrow-minded rigidity of ancient beliefs). Cultural conflicts include spiritual perceptions, cultural creeds, and…

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    Roland Barthes has once stated. Amy Tan illustrates a question that does not completely offer an answer in her novel The Joy Luck Club in which Tan narrates the lives of four different mothers who are part of this club which meets to eat food and discuss things which brought all of them joy. The mothers emigrated from China and those mother’s daughters are all American-born so that there is a little bit of a cultural difference between the mothers and their daughters. Amy Tan poses the question…

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