Daughters

Text-based communication, which is perceived as a relatively lower intimacy ICTs without performing facial expressions, is adopted by daughters and fathers in transnational intergenerational communication. Most informants in this study indicated that they love each other and care about each other very much. Thus, it is difficult for both fathers and daughters adopt high intimacy, such as voice calls and video calls, to contact with each other. My father would feel awkward when he is having…

The Violin by Amy Chua and Two Kinds by Amy Tan are two novels about a mother-daughter relationship. The speakers utilize varying tones when speaking of recollections of their memories. Chua’s and Tan’s use of tense and hostile tones help illustrate the drama in the relationships that blankets the love between the mother and daughter. Amy Tan’s recounts of her past prove to be escalated versions of Amy Chau’s with lesser presence of love; however, love remains a driving force behind both of the…

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan showcases the disconnections between mother and daughters, particularly those of immigrants. In the book Mothers and Daughters: Complicated Connections Across Cultures, Alice H. Deakins, Rebecca Bryant Lockridge, and Helen M. Sterk make the argument that all women share one experience in common, being a daughter (90). While that argument is true, it is a little more complicated, each daughter goes through different experiences than others, as shown in The Joy Luck…

Gold Tree and Silver Tree. In these stories, some characters such as the Queen and the Silver Tree show their selfish and inhumane personalities. In Little Snow White the Queen, who is the mother went insane with jealousy and decided to kill her daughter and wanted to eat her. Also in the Gold Tree and Silver tree, the Silver Tree decided to engulf her daughter’s heart for personal gains. While both the Queen and the Silver Tree are two divergent characters, they have more in common than what…

play a game with his three daughters, Cordelia, Goneril, and Regan in order to determine who would inherit the biggest piece of his land after his death. King Lear was unable to perceive the truth about what was going on in his kingdom. He didn’t realize that Regan and Goneril didn’t love him. They were only pretending while his daughter Cordelia who truly loved her father refused to play the game. This clearly showed a power struggle within the family. The two daughters Regan and Goneril…

Characters, are looking for an author that will tell their tale. The Characters includes the Father, the Widow, the Oldest Daughter, the Oldest Son, the Youngest Daughter, and the Youngest Son. The Characters begins to act out their story, but the director and his people are wondering if the Characters are pulling a trick on them. The crying Widow faints; and the Father, the Eldest Daughter, and the Widow share a story about two husbands and the Widow's past. The director, who still unsure…

the sacrifices between mother and daughter helped to finally achieve the harmony in their lives they long for. The first three stories in this section discuss the relationship between mothers and daughters, with the last one concluding the The Joy Luck Club. By examining this section, there is one moral stands out in these four stories; that the relationship between mothers and daughters is powerful. In "Magpies," when An-mei Hsu thinks about how her daughter 's marriage is falling…

poems about Demeter show how a mother’s love can do great things to get their daughter back. One can say that the poems are similar in ways and that they go along with each other smoothly. The authors of both of these poems have done an outstanding job at making both of these poems get the emotional point across. In the poem Demeter by Carol Ann Duffy, she talks about how dark and gloomy Demeter’s life was because her daughter was taken away from her. In the first few lines, 1-4, it says,…

Venice, was the father and daughter relationships. Each character had reacted similar to the other; however, their intentions were different. The two father and daughter relationships are similar because of how the fathers react to their daughters decisions on whom to marry. Jessica rejects her father Shylock’s lifestyle and even his religion. During that age of time, rejecting your…

Kiara was a self referral, however she was encouraged by the school counselor to seek assistance managing her stress and not taking it out on her daughter. Kiara states that she is overworked from being a single mom and working multiple jobs. She is taking her stress out on her daughter, who she is yelling at and is showing signs of neglect. She was not mandated at this time, but if the abuse and neglect continues she will be mandated to go to therapy for her child's sake. Presenting problem:…