Amy

The poem ”Grandma Ling” Amy Ling uses symbolism, imagery and smaller messages to show the theme Your love for your family only grows stronger the farther away you are. To start off, the theme is shown through using symbolism to show the theme. In the poem “If you can that howl deep another you'll reach china.” Ling uses this quote to represent their new home Pennsylvania is where they live now but their heart and history our in china ware also their family lives. And the hole that is being dug…

The Joy Luck Club is a novel written by Amy Tan. It was published in 1989 and was her first novel that she ever released. The novel tells the story of four immigrant women from China moving to the United States and their stories with their four American-born daughters. It is said to be partially inspired by her own relationships with her mother. This book is one of those books that seems like anyone can relate to it in some way. This book includes so many different themes and it hits them…

citizens to relocate to America to escape persecution and turmoil. Among the many who immigrated was Amy Tan’s family, whose journey migrating sculpted themes in Tan’s writing. Tan’s firsthand experience in two settings allows her to fully immerse herself into both and present clear definitions between the two, exemplified in The Joy Luck Club, written to reflect her journey transitioning cultures. Amy Tan’s Joy Luck Club incorporates symbolism, narrative structure, characterization of mother…

“Two Kinds” is a short story by Amy Tan narrated by Jing-mei. In the end, Jing-mei notices the piece “Perfectly Contented” and sees that it is longer and faster than “Pleading Child,” which was “shorter but slower.” She then realizes that these two pieces “were two halves of the same song.” This means that the music pieces represent Jing-mei, as she played both parts and while the parts are different from each other they come together to form on whole piece, one individual; Jing-mei. When…

The Essay Mother Tongue was written in 1990 by Amy Tan. This was written for people like her, who had trouble accepting the way their parent´s spoke. It was written to share an experience not many have and is about what she had to do because of her mother´s speech. These things can be known by inferred from the text and read the small bio before the reading. This text takes the form of an essay. this is apparent because it is written in a more formal fashion and is written in spaced paragraphs…

In the short story “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan, the author creates a conflict between a Chinese mother and her daughter. The relationship between the mother who wanted her daughter to be prodigy, and her daughter who refused to be prodigy is presented (43). She uses dialogue, irony, similes and metaphors to illustrate and set her writing. Tan’s main message that stands out in the story is parents-to-kids relationship, in this case mother-to-daughter relationship. With all the details given by the…

written by Amy Tan, a daughter of Chinese immigrants. Based on her detailed past, I feel like she put pieces of her life in the novel. Just like the novel, Tan’s parents immigrated from China, in look for a better future in America. Amy Tan was raised as an American while her mother still hold inside of her the old Chinese culture. Another thing I felt she compared her life into the novel is what her mother expected her to do as she grew up. Like the mothers in The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan parents…

‘Perfectly Contented’ was longer, but faster. And after I played them both a few times, I realized they were two halves of the same song” (Tan 144). In this quoted text, this analogy provides an important insight of the personalities of the daughters in Amy Tan’s novel The Joy Luck Club. Jing-mei realizes that the songs “Pleading Child” and “Perfectly Contented” are halves of the same song, which symbolizes Jing-mei herself. Jing-mei has two moods that influence her actions; although she is…

This “broken” English has brought her closer to her mother and has given her that well-built connection in order to overcome a live a day to day life. Amy Tan did not want to be part of a society that misjudged those that aren’t efficient English speakers. Well educated people might think of these people as not willing to learn, but this is not always their choice and like Amy’s mother they are always…

In Two Kinds by Amy Tan, Jing-mei Woo is more of an ethnic minority than portraying an American child (woman). Because of her mother’s actions, and cultural traditions from China, Jing-mei Woo, is not able to embrace the American culture. Eventually, Jing-mei compares her life in America to life in China, resulting in a rebellion. Likewise, since she was a child, Jing-mei Woo was forced to be everything she wasn’t, even when she tried to stay true to herself, the temptation of being a worthy…