The Joy Luck Club

someone’s intelligence by her English” (Tan, 2003, p. 20). Recognizing the forms of English used to speak to your family is very unique and knowing the difference can have a profound effect on writing. Tan was giving a lecture on her book The Joy Luck Club that…

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…

"Two Kinds from The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan is a story about a mother, who is determined to make her daughter a prodigy, the mother of the speaker in this story is a believer in the American dream "My Mother Believed you could be anything you wanted to be in America" (Tan 294)…

China were she was able to reconnect with her inner Chinese roots. She also met two half sisters her mother had left in China before she fled to America. This family encounter and social experience served as the basis for her first novel named The Joy Luck Club. Social acceptance is a key component described in her novels. In Tan's short story “Two Kinds” The protagonist's daughter and antagonist mom find themselves in a constant battle between accepting the person the protagonist would like to…

her freshman year of college (Tan 285). Tan also shares that she’s rebellious and loves to prove others wrong by nature. As expected of Tan she changed her major from Pre-med to English that first year of college. Afterwords she wrote the The Joy Luck Club in which focuses on the struggles of Chinese women in America during the late forties and early fifties. Both books, and many other works, went on to become best sellers and made booth Cisneros and Tan well respected authors in which their…

“The Pair of Tickets” In the story, the Pair of Ticket written by Amy Tan’s, Jing-Mie speculate on the internal conflicts to prove how being ignorant and not embracing one own culture could make a person missed out on the most important element of life, heritage. In addition, the story signifies the challenges the second generation of American immigrant children struggle. Such as being bi-culture/cultural translation dilemma of identity and other obstacles they faced. The second generation of…

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan contains many short narratives told by eight Chinese females living in America. In one of the narratives, Two Kinds, one can envision the enormity of the pressure and frustration exchanged between an expectant parent and a depressed child. Most children are told “you can be a prodigy, too” by their parents, which paves a long road of struggle and stress (132). In Two Kinds, the standards of an adult for a child can bring stress, frustration, and sorrow for both…

Rose marries a foreigner, a “waigoren” (117). Their perception of themselves is marred by their struggle of trying to fit in. This is like the way Suyuan’s continuous tests unintentionally tarnishes Jing-mei’s self-worth. In life, as shown in The Joy Luck Club, there are many things that will make you question your self worth and alter your perception of yourself. It is rough, struggling with the mentality that you are not worthy, especially if there are so many things proving that you are of no…

realization that people are discriminated against for having imperfect English. With the using her mother as an example as someone with limited English she make it understandable. Then when she noticed herself speaking to a group about her novel the Joy Luck Club and about her writing. Tan realized something different about this discussion. Tan’s Mother was in the audience and Tan realized she was talking in a way that was not normal for her mother to hear. Then to realize she was…

Tyler smiled as he watched Dan having fun out of the corner of his eye. He smiled, his plan had worked. After dancing for roughly thirty minutes to random songs, everyone was officially loosened up and it was time to start party games. “So what were you guys thinking about playing?” Louise asked Phil. “Well, we were planning on just playing Monopoly-” Phil began before being interrupted by Tyler. “Oh hell no, we are not playing that lame ass game. We’re playing Twister, like fun people do,”…