Mother-Daughter Relationship in Two Kinds Essay

In a world full of connections, there are always relationships that often affect one another. The writers Alice Walker and Flannery O 'Connor, even though, born in different time periods, base their novels upon the growth and development of the main characters throughout the course of their stories. Alice Walker and Flannery O’Connor’s lives influenced their writings. Alice Walker 's biography states “Of the two daughters at odds over family heirlooms in the story ‘Everyday Use’, Alice Walker…

immigrant parents seem to only get disappointed in their children for being this Americanised child. This leads to tension between the parent and the child. Although the tension between immigrant parents and American born children divides their relationship, it reveals a cultural gap, that uses discipline, cultural conflict, and parents’ expectation that leads to disappointment, which shows…

The ideas of honor and the American Dream are two ideals that are not easily reconciled. Honor implies a good name and esteem from the community. A person shows honor to another person in many ways in the Chinese culture, one of which is to simply obey their parents and the elders in their family. It also denotes a sense of ethical conduct inherent in the Chinese culture. (Merriam-Webster Honor) Indeed, if any one person is asked the first word they thought of when they hear China, honor…

boundaries and tells his brother to consider him dead from that point on. From then on the two brothers did not communicate for years. As the story unfolds, both brothers desperately seek forms of salvation to break free from their misery. The narrator seeks ways to leave Harlem by detaching from society and engaging in normal activities like his teaching career, or spending time with his wife and daughters. Sonny on the other hand acknowledges the burden that haunts him and copes by pursuing…

main characters from “Two Kinds” and “Everyday Use” are similar but also different in many ways. Both main characters want to make their mothers happy and are selfless. Ni kan and Maggie are both compared to other people and because they can’t reach certain expectations which causes people to look down on them. Their expectations that their mothers set are both extremely different. Ni kan and Maggie’s relationships with their mother are not alike, Maggie is closer to her mother than Ni kan.…

members, friends, strangers, and even yourself. In the articles “Two Kinds”, by Amy Tan, “Everyday Use”, by Alice Walker, and “Ethnic Hash”, by Patricia J Williams, the authors illustrate their experiences with conflicts created by differing opinions/ideas on culture. First, in “Two Kinds” on page 60 Amy Tan shows that the mother and daughter had conflicting ideas on culture by including the quote; “I didn’t have to do what mother said anymore…this wasn’t China”. Jing-Mei was born in…

Tan, A few separate stories about mothers and daughter are told. One of the pairs is Jing-Mei and her mom, Suyuan, whom had a complicated relationship. Jing-Mei and her mom often did not see eye to eye and that caused some conflict between them. Likewise, often my mom and me have our disagreements. Our quarrels are frequent and can last from minutes to weeks. Jing Mei and Suyuan are contracting to my mom and me due to the high expectations set by by the mothers, the differences in culture…

agree on the same things. Kids become stressed if they do not want to accomplish the same goals their parents want them to. James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues” and Amy Tan’s “Two Kinds” explore the idea of parental/familial expectations and the troubles that come along with them. Both of these stories take a look into the experiences of two individuals…

William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy filled with characters of all kinds. Some are full of anger while others are full of wisdom. Some are caring while others are hardhearted. All around, without the different character traits webbed into the story of star-crossed lovers, there wouldn’t be a story. The three main female roles in this somber tale are Nurse, Juliet, and Lady Capulet. Juliet and Lady Capulet are of the upper-class whereas the Nurse is not. Through the tragic play a…

The Joy Luck Club (Two Kinds) Essay The Joy Luck Club centers on the theme of hope. This is articulated through interactions between mother and daughter, a mother’s hope for a better life for her daughter, and a daughter’s hopes to meet her mother’s expectations. Having dealt with hardships and struggles in the mother’s own life, she becomes so focused on giving her daughter a better life at all cost, but does not see the consequences of her actions. She is blinded 
by the possibilities and…