Daughters

Reminded that her daughter had grown up, the mother had to accept it and allow her to grow. The poem, Still Life in Landscape, was about a family that came across a car accident. At the scene, a woman was on the floor, dead, contorted, and surrounded by fragments of her vehicle (Still Life). The father was driving, intoxicated, and his wife and daughter were passengers of the vehicle. The mother attempted to shield her daughter from seeing the atrocity. The mother moved the…

key factor in the treatment of women. When a daughter was born in China it was a very sad occasion. For sons were greatly valued, because the parents needed a man to work the land. Along with taking care of the parents when they are old and can no longer work, daughters were seen as an extra mouth to feed and a financial burden. Daughters were taught to not look at people in the eye and to not speak unless spoken too. As young as three days old, daughters were put under a bed, to instill into…

In The World on the Turtle’s Back the grandmother prefers the left-handed twin because she does not follow the rules, she did not like her daughter, and she was "left-handed". At the beginning of the story we are told that a sky woman is pregnant and she wants her husband to bring her food. One day she wants to eat from the Great Tree in the center of the sky world, which was forbidden. Right there we already see that the woman is not someone that follows the rules, just like her left-handed…

On Eating Disorders). There are numerous reasons girls develop eating disorders including; mothers having concern about their own weight and their daughters weight, pressure from friends, self-esteem issues, and most importantly pressure from the media. The media portrays an “ideal” body, but in reality those women…

In Ovid’s Book 5, he represents the myth of Proserpina as follows. Proserpina is the daughter to Ceres the goddess of harvest. As Proserpina was picking flowers in the garden with her playmates, Dis spotted her and felt smitten. He picked her up and carried her away. The reason for abducting her was that his love for her was very hasty. The goddess was worried and terrified and this made her cry out for help from her mother Ceres. Dis rushed off using his chariot and took the girl to a…

and a daughter have many ups and downs throughout life. The excerpts from Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom by Amy Chua and The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan are perfect examples of the arguments that can happen between a mother and daughter. In Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom the story is told from the mother’s point of view with a tone of annoyance at her daughter and in The Joy Luck Club the daughter has hostility towards her mother’s wants. In Amy Chua’s story she narrates the feud’s with her daughter…

This conflict might not have a winner to some people because the mother and the daughter don't come to a clear agreement with each other. By looking at these examples, many people came to a conclusion that every conflict does not have a winner. Other people might argue against it and say that every conflict does have a winner. I agree…

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…

his life in The Joy Luck Club story . she embodied the role of the daughter jing-mei she was Chinese-America . And her mother, who immigrated to America because of the war that happened in China which made them eager to maintain of their Chinese identity . Mai's mother was trying to teach her English, but at the same time she does not want to make her as a Chinese ,that which make a misunderstanding between mother and daughter. After Mai's mother death she had become very close to her mother…

She is telling her daughter what to do and how to do it.“Girl” is more complex than a simple list of instructions and how-to’s. In Kincaid’s work, she dives deeply into the perspective of a young woman living in a poor country during the late 1970s as well as the girl’s mother’s perspective. Kincaid’s instructions go from basic house management to social etiquette and how to do well in life as a woman. Essentially, this short story shows the mother as an instructor and the daughter as a…