Daughter

Book Talk: The Joy Luck Club “Now the woman was old. And she had a daughter who grew up speaking only English and swallowing more Coca-Cola than sorrow. For a long time now the woman had wanted to give her daughter the single swan feather and tell her, ‘This feather may look worthless, but it comes from afar and carries with it all my good intentions.’ And she waited, year after year, for the day she could tell her daughter this in perfect American English” (Tan 17). A Chinese woman migrates to…

Kin & Influences Response Essay Blackwood’s chapter four, “National Discourses and Daughters’ Desires,” focused on the mother-daughter relations within and outside the household and how it has changed over generations. The earlier generations had a different set of identities to choose from due to the changes over time. Those changes involved an increase in education that led to a change in marriage rights. The earlier generations had more of a voice and choice now compared to the earlier…

As kids we all want our parents to be proud of who we are and what we become. Everything we do, we try to make them happy because it allows us to feel better about ourselves. After reading “Only Daughter” by Sandra Cisneros, I noticed that in one of the paragraphs Cisneros states that she does all her writing for her dad. In the beginning, I wondered why she stated this. Why not write your stories for yourself; If she enjoys writing so much why does she care so much about what her dad thinks?…

daughter’s life, until they are stolen from her. I’m sure you have felt those gaping holes in your life before. I know I have. But by walking down the aisle of the grocery store alone, and by being forced to love ourselves, we, the fatherless daughters, can learn to impact the world in a more positive way than the world has impacted us. Regardless of how our fathers left, how they disappeared from us, how they broke us, we are strong enough to prove that we can do this. We can be normal.…

were allowed to exit from the back entrance to explore. She knows, especially from the stories and the rough childhood she had to endure after the camp, that this small memory is not a good representation of her years in the camp. In Fifth Chinese Daughter, when Jade Snow’s mother birthed Forgiveness from Heaven and “everyone in the family made much over” the new baby. These family moments that should be marked with jubilation were not for Katie’s family. Katie’s parents were Isei, or originally…

Malcolm vs the Daughters The goal of the Civil Rights Movement was to end the segregation, discrimination, exploitation, and violence that African Americans suffered. Civil disobedience and nonviolent protests drew attention to the inequalities that blacks faced and as a result of these movements legal action was taken such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Fair Housing Act of 1968. It's difficult for anyone to deny the progress the Civil Rights Movement caused but because of differing…

Dreams are located in every corner of the street, but to achieve those, one has to be able to face the upcoming confrontations. Caroline Hwang, who is the author of the essay “ The Good Daughter”, being an immigrant born in America faces many challenges. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, with having a BA in English. She is a Korean- American, and has been in America since her childhood. In this essay, she talks about her culture, identity and more. Culture, and identity is a…

Astrid’s Attic In, A saloonkeeper’s Daughter, by Drude Krog Janson, The attic represent’s happiness for Astrid and well she is their we are able to uncover her thoughts and ideals on people and the world around her. The section I chose starts on the second paragraph of the first page and ends after the second paragraph on the fourth page. The passage encompasses who Astrid is and who she wants to become. It relates to the larger themes of the work as it introduces us to the love she has for her…

The Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey was a mystery novel in which the main character, Alan Grant, used rather unorthodox research methods in order to prove Richard III’s innocence and prove that Richard III wasn’t the villain that everyday Britain assumed he was. Grant’s main debate showed that there was essentially no reasoning for Richard III to murder his nephews. In order to find out and prove that Richard was a man who should have been on the bench instead of in the dock. Grant scoured…

Reflection One: Media and Race. I struggled with ‘Daughters of the Dust’, it did not resonate and although it was quite beautiful and because of that, mesmerising, I did not understand it, the dialect difficult to comprehend and the narrative, unfamiliar (Dash, 1991). In response to this I attempted to decipher this text in two ways. Firstly, through transforming what I was seeing by placing it within a context that I felt I understood; a Maori history, a story of opressed people, one closer…