Joy Harjo

Most of the time immigrants underestimate the difficulties they might face in their new destinations. Such as overcoming language barrier, adapting to the new culture and environment. One of the writers who discussed the issue of challenges immigrants face was Lan Cao. This essay will clearly analyze the weaknesses and strengths of the article "The Gift of Language" by Lan Cao. In the excerpt, the author tells about a Vietnamese girl and her mother who immigrate to America during the Vietnam…

In “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan, The two daughters can compare but are distinctively different as well. Waverly Jong grew up a child prodigy playing chess and Jing Mei was a pianist prodigy. Both girls thought their work was simple and it came naturally for them. Waverly had her own bit of fame and continuously brought home her awards and trophies. “We didn’t always pick the right kind of prodigy”(Tan 1). Jing Mei didn’t always realize she was talented at the piano, before this she tried everything…

mother loves their daughter and would do anything to protect and better them. However each mom protects and betters their daughter differently, which creates unique mother-daughter relationships. In Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom by Amy Chua and in The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, the reader can see the relationship through the eyes of the mother and daughter. Even though Amy Chua and her two daughters can be frustrated with each other, they all still care for each other and work through their…

Amy Tan does a great job creating a cultural conflict between Jing-mei and her mom. Being from a different culture and living in a place where standards of society and cultural behaviors are different than what Jing-mei?s mom is used to, she wants to raise her daughter the way she would if they lived in China. Being born and raised in America by Chinese parents, changes the way Jing-mei thought of herself and her heritage while growing up. Her mother believed ?you could be anything you wanted in…

A. Why did Jing-Mei’s mother form the Joy Luck Club in Kweilin? Her mother formed the club to give herself and her friends a break from the horror of the war that was going on in China. What kind of information did Jing-Mei learn from her mother’s story about leaving Kweilin? Jing-Mei learned that her mother carried a wheelbarrow of items that included her twin daughters, food, and fancy clothes. When she left Kweilin all that she had left was three of her fancy dresses. Why was Jing-Mei given…

In The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong has ambivalent sentiments about being a Chinese female. In the Chinese culture daughters are treated as a liability and that made her wish she was a boy when she was younger. The way her parents and other Chinese people speak about girls is one of the reasons that she seems to at sometimes resent the Chinese culture. However, she really seems to identify with the figure of the women warrior. As a kid she was told the story of Fa Mulan and to wants to be like her…

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…

Your culture can dictate what you value because of your surroundings. Your surroundings determine what you do, how you act, and how you think. Your surroundings make a huge impact on your life. Such as in Billy and Mike’s situation, where they want to play football because in their culture football is what boys their age do. Billy and Mike had a choice to play football rather than Jing Mei Woo and Waverly Jong. Jing Mei Woo never had that choice. Jing Mei Woo’s mother forced her to become a…

The lyrics of the Beatles’ ‘’Long and Winding Road’’ is the perfect metaphor for the chapter that ends the Joy Luck Club. This can be seen on two levels. The Joy Luck Club book begins with Suyuan Woo and, in a way, it ends with Suyuan Woo albeit in the person of the daughter Jing-Mei. The road followed by the members of the Joy Luck Club has taken them from China to America and now in the person of Jing-Mei the road has led them back again. On another level, the ‘’Long and Winding Road’’…

In the book, The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, a Chinese-American writer, there are various themes of significance. Such themes include Chinese vs. American traditions, Mother-daughter relationships, bad childhoods, bad marriages, child marriages, hope and women's rights. I am aware that each of these themes has their own importance, however, I believe that the theme of child marriage is most important. I intend to use the Ted-Ed talk of A warrior’s cry against child marriage by Memory Banda and Why…