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    A mother and a daughter have different points of view about dreams in their lives. A mother draws on her mind the kind of future and life her daughter could have. But, the mother does not consider that her expectations are far away from her daughter’s dreams and goals. A mother and a daughter do not conceive the same thoughts about dreams and the future because everyone has different thoughts about it. There are two stories that at some points have something in common between a mother and a daughter relationship “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid and “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan. Kincaid writes about the advice a mother gives to her daughter mainly emphasizing which are the things she needs to learn to be a good wife in the future and to avoid being a bad…

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    Amy Tan’s “Two Kinds” is a short story that was written in 1989, that outlines the difficulties with a mother and daughter relationship. A young girl name Jing-Mei Woo who is the main character in the story was a vulnerable nine-year-old girl living in a home with her mother and father. Jing-Mei deals with the high potentials of her mother, to become a genius. After losing everything in China, her mother moved to America for a better living. Jing-Mei shares her mother’s thoughts about America on…

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    ‘Two Kinds’ is portrayal of difficulties in mother-daughter relationships in San Francisco’s China-town. The focus of the story is the often troublesome but unavoidable “interval between mothers who were born in China before the communist revolution and thus have been cut off from their native culture for decades, and their American-born daughters who must find a way to work through the twin burdens of their Chinese ancestry and American expectations for success”. While the protagonist and…

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    and healthy mother-daughter relationship is one of the building blocks of society that if nurtured and treated the right way, can create two happy humans. In Amy Chua’s memoir “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom” and Amy Tan’s novel “The Joy Luck club” a mother in each story uses different tones and words to try and relieve tension. An excerpt from “ The Violin” in “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom” shows a mother and her daughter in a disagreement that is not dangerously angry, but mainly frustration and…

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    The Imagery in Two Kinds Amy Tan's “Two Kinds” shows readers the problematic relationship between mothers and daughters. The mother-daughter relationship is the main conflict through the story. Conflicts occur owing to divergent opinions about identification. As a Chinese immigrant living in California, Jing-Mei's mother decides to put her idea of the American Dream in the mind of her daughter. But being born in America, Jing-Mei hates the idea of her mother’s American Dream being put on…

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    Annotated Bibliography Souris, Stephen. "`Only Two Kinds Of Daughters': Inter-Monologue Dialogicity In The Joy Luck Club." Melus 19.2 (1994): 99. Academic Search Complete. Web. 19 Oct. 2015. This article argues that The Joy Club invites analysis from critical perspectives that theorize and valorize fragmented, discontinuous texts and the possibilities of connection across segments. The author was saying that in “Two Kind”, mother from china and daughter American born that was causing problem in…

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    Amy Tan wrote a short story, “Two Kinds”, about a Chinese immigrant mother and her 1st generation American born daughter. Centering around the mother and daughter’s relationship during her childhood in Chinatown, SanFrancisco and into her adulthood. This story is written in the daughters Jing-Mei ‘June’ perspective. Specifically the time when her mother signed her up piano lessons. It had all started because, Suyuan, her mother, wanted her to have a better life than she had in China, because…

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    short stories “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker and “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan, the main theme involved is the prolonged tension between mother and daughter that threatens their relationship and strong bonds. In the story “Everyday Use”, Dee argues with her mother about family heritage. In “Two Kinds” the mother pushes her daughter to be the best pianist she could be, but the daughter misunderstands her mothers strict methods as harsh and severe. The mothers will to push her daughter to the limits…

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    drives a mother-daughter relationship. Many mothers want what is best for their daughters, but many times it is not seen the same way through the daughter's eyes. Amy Chua’s 2010 memoir Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom and Amy Tan’s 1989 novel The Joy Luck Club recall their experiences of their own mother-daughter relationship. Amy Chua is narrating experiences she recalls having with her daughter learning to play the piano using a tone that is very tense, but she is only wanting the best for her…

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    Describe the nature of the mother/daughter relationships in the works of the following writers: Flannery’ O’Conner, Amy Tan, and Julia Alvarez. What is the source of the conflict in these relationships? Are the conflicts resolved in these works? Why or why not? Different relationships between mothers and daughters were discussed in Flannery’ O'Connor's “Good Country People”, Amy Tan’s “Two Kind”, and Julia Alvarez's “¡Yo!”. In the three mother/daughter relationships, we explored some…

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