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In the world, there are a plethora of different parenting styles. Extending from low - maintaince parenting all the way to firm authoritarian parenting. “Two Kinds” is an excerpt from The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, realistic fiction novel. Excerpt one is from the chapter “Dreaming of Heroes” and excerpt two is from the chapter “Field of Dreams.” Both are from Friday Night Lights, nonfiction novel, by H.G. Bissinger. The readers are exposed to two drastic parenting lifestyles that affect their…

Jing-mei was happy just being herself, but, unfortunately, her mother expected more. Jing-mei’s mother pushed her to become famous. She thought that was what’s best for Jing-mei. “Just like you,” she said, “Not the best because you are not trying.” (Tan, pg. 35) She tried everything in her power to make Jing-mei talented in some way. She pushes Jing-mei right over the edge. Jing-mei soon found her true, aggressive nature. She realized that her mother thinks that she is not good enough so she is…

Cultural Significance “The Joy Luck Club and My Life” Culture significance is one of the key elements in The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. What I mean by cultural significance is that the book shows the historic, social and spiritual value for past and present generations of mothers and daughters. The novel is about four Chinese mothers who have migrated from China to the United States, all the mothers migrated for different reasons, some were looking for a better life for their daughters and…

Two Kinds - The Significance of the “Two Halves of the Same Song” Many people are familiar with the yin-yang symbol. The symbol represents the idea that everything has both light and dark aspects, and that one cannot exist without the other. In “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan, a girl named Jing-Mei feels pressured by her mother to be a genius. Her mother tries to find something for her daughter to be a prodigy at – whether that is being a “Chinese Shirley Temple,” or memorizing state capitals, or even…

The book, Make Lemonade, the author, Virginia Euwer Wolff is sending a message to us, the readers, that we are very lucky to be where we are, and many aren’t as lucky as us. One of the main characters, Jolly, shows this through her struggles of poverty, teen pregnancy, unemployment, and sexual harassment. In the beginning of the book, the main character, Verna LaVaughn, or just LaVaughn is trying to find a job to save up for college. She finds a babysitting job for a teen named Jolly who has two…

Both Amy Tan in “Two Kinds” and Alice Walker in “Everyday Use” provide the theme of self realization through experience. Although both focus on mother daughter relationships, Tan tells her point of view from the daughter, Jing Mei. While Walker narrates through Mama’s point of view. In “Two Kinds” Amy Tan tells a story of a mother and daughter’s relationship with one another straining as the stress of conflicting dreams comes to a head. To the mother, Suyuan, America is the land of…

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…

The stories in the book The Joy Luck Club, Waverly Jong nor June Woo feel happy about their lives, Waverly Jong’s mother had ruined Waverly’s happiness by showing her off to her neighborhoods. June Woo’s mom had taken away happiness from her by giving her what she think is the best but was the worst to June. Waverly was mastering and actually liked to play chess, her mother used her as a way to give herself fame and happiness. Waverly didn’t like the way her mother acts and had ruined…

In the novel Joy Luck Club, the author Amy Tan tells the story of four chinese mothers and their american daughters. One of these mothers, An-mei Hsu greatly compares to a poem Mother’s Day by Daisy Zamora. This poem includes four different stanzas, which each correlate with a different part of An-mei’s character. The first and second stanzas of Zamora’s poem are about how the daughter wishes to have a mother like one of the: pretty mothers in the ads() but because she is: born of my womb() she…

may look worthless, but it comes from afar and carries with it all my respectable intentions” This is one of the stories that one of the daughters hears from her mother and later on in the story she finds out what is the true meaning behind it. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan is a book and a movie. This Story is about three mothers and three daughters that have their conflicts, but ultimately, they always will love each other. In this book and movie you will read and get into the memory of each and…