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Amy Tan’s “Two Kinds” is a short story that was written in 1989, that outlines the difficulties with a mother and daughter relationship. A young girl name Jing-Mei Woo who is the main character in the story was a vulnerable nine-year-old girl living in a home with her mother and father. Jing-Mei deals with the high potentials of her mother, to become a genius. After losing everything in China, her mother moved to America for a better living. Jing-Mei shares her mother’s thoughts about America on…

Amy Tan style of writing came from culture impact of the third generation therefore Amy work was highly inspired by her American up bring and her chinese background. Most of Tan’s novel have one similar connection the importance of mother daughter relationship. The Joy Luck Club was made up into sixteen stories each about club members and American born daughters who immigrated from china. The mothers and daughters share stories of there lives about their families in china and the…

Critical Reading Essay Recently, I read a novel from the textbook is called Two Kinds. This novel by Amy Tan is the story of Jing-Mei. A Chinese –American girl whose mother believed they can do anything successful if they live in America. The Chinese-American Girl’s mother think anyone live in America can be anything they want and so is determined to find hidden talent in this Chinese- American girl. Jing-Mei is repeatedly tested to reveal any kind of talent but continually disappoints…

In the story Two Kinds by Amy Tan, the culture is being represented by Jing-Mei and her mother. Evidence supporting this is the conflict going on between her and her mother in the story is around her culture, and how her mother wants her to grow up. This can include moment in the story including when her mother wanted her to work constantly on things she doesn’t have interest in, or when she started doing her piano lessons with Mr. Chang. Although the conflict shows her mother trying to do…

In the essay by Amy Tan from The Opposites of Fate, Mother Tongue (2003 p. 20-23) she blends different forms of English to make it more relevant to most people and making the piece easier to read and comprehend. It has it proven that using blended forms of writing can make a successful piece. We tend to elaborate more when we know our audience. When we do not, we use more factual information and formal words. We also use formal methods to get our point across when trying to reach those in…

aren’t used to always following orders especially when they are force to do something that they don’t like. Sometimes people like to appear something they’re not which make things a bit harder than it really is. Even though Jing-Mei from Two Kinds, Amy Tan, was happy about pleasing her mom, she wanted to be unique and herself like any other teenage girl. At the begging of her journey Jing-Mei kind of like the idea about being a prodigy, she agreed in the piano lessons and was happy to take…

Tiger in the Shadows Ying-ying St. Clair is one of the four Chinese mothers in Amy Tan’s novel, The Joy Luck Club. Ying-ying gets thrown into her voyage when she falls from a boat as a child. She faces many trials such as marrying a bad man, having an abortion, giving birth to a stillborn, and becoming lifeless. These incidents qualify Ying-ying as a hero because she “learns to experience the supernormal range of human spiritual life . . . "(Campbell). According to a scholar, Joseph Campbell, a…

The Joy Luck Club is split into fours. There are four sections and four chapters in each section, and each set of four represents the four seats at a mahjong table. Just like each seat belongs to each player, each chapter belongs to a specific character. In the first section of the book, June is asked by her father to be the fourth seat at her mother's friends’ mahjong table, replacing her mother who has passed away. Surrounded by these women who knew her mother so well, June is reminded of the…

In The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan, the two settings of America and China act to contrast the two very different cultures that the mothers and daughters in the novel have and further develop the theme of the difficulties of cultural translation . The two settings also show the reader the message that we may not always know and understand the stories of those we love, but attempting to understand can potentially bring us closer to our family. The separation of each story by chapters, told through…

In “The Joy Luck Club” Waverly’s story opens with her mother’s, Lindo, upbringing. It is understood that she did not have a choice when it came to marriage as she was engaged by the age of two. The hardships that Lindo had to face very early on, gives a pathway on how she nurtures Waverly. By understanding Lindo first, you can only then understand Lindo and Waverly’s story together. Reverting to Lindo’s story, it starts off as her mother figuratively hands her over to Mrs. Huang as she does not…