The Joy Luck Club

Name:Griffith, Leanna Date: 9/17/15 Period: 6 Tan uses the central conflict between mothers and daughters to develop the theme of the work by giving real life things that happen between mums and daughters such as the mum pushing the girl to be something that she is not. In the story Jing-mei has to deal with her mother who is pushing her to be something she is not such as Shirley Temple, a dancer and a piano player. Jing-mei at first doesn’t at first mind what her mum is doing until it goes…

The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a girlhood among ghosts, by Maxine Hong Kingston, the narrative investigates numerous sides of the immigrant encounters in the United States. The book focuses not only on those who immigrated to the U.S. from China but preferably on the first generation born in this country. Within the woman in question stories the narrator pulls us into her problems of growing up in an immigrant society and her fight with various aspects of her Chinese heritage: her fear of being…

Anne’s relationship with her mother is not the best mother, daughter relationship there ever was. Anne thinks that her mom tries to get into her business and then is never on her side when there is an argument. Anne is maturing in regards to her relationship with her mother by trying to change her actions with her mother, changing her attitude about her mother, and getting wiser about situations. The first example of Anne is maturing is changing herself. Anne had one day looked in her diary…

Various Life Experiences The origin of our lives, the methods in which we were raised, and the experiences we have come across have shaped us into who we are today and formed our outlooks on society. People that don’t have as many life experiences will keep a general perspective on the world, while others whom experience many more will be bound to have a varied outlook on what’s going on around them. In the short story “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan, the mother’s life experiences differ from those of…

I was a bit drawn back that the author, Maxine Hong Kingston, chose to reveal such private details about her family in the first couple of lines. After reading the first paragraph, I was okay. Still, it did not take away from the suspense of the memoir or reading. I did not mind knowing the basis of the story in the beginning. In fact, it made me find the book more interesting. Other may disagree, but I feel like Kingston’s methodology behind this was brilliant.It was as if a load had been…

In “Fish Cheeks”, Amy Tan describes her Christmas eve dinner as catastrophic, being that she was fourteen, and the humiliation that she felt when her crush Robert, who was the minister’s son and his family had been invited to have a traditional Chinese meal with her family. But when she found out that he was invited to dinner, she felt so many emotions like fear, humiliation and discouragement and thoughts of what he might think of her and her families Chinese Christmas celebrations. “What…

Waverly Jong is a young lady who lives with her mom, Mrs. Jong, and her two more established siblings, Vincent and Winston. Her family is of Chinese plunge and they live cheerfully in occupied Chinatown, San Francisco. Waverl'ys mother is exceptionally strick and tries to bring up her kids as disiplined as could be allowed. The Jong's gone to the first yearly Christmas party at the First Baptist Church where the kids each got a unique present from Santa Claus (one of the congregation individuals…

In Two Kinds by Amy Tan, Jing-mei Woo is more of an ethnic minority than portraying an American child (woman). Because of her mother’s actions, and cultural traditions from China, Jing-mei Woo, is not able to embrace the American culture. Eventually, Jing-mei compares her life in America to life in China, resulting in a rebellion. Likewise, since she was a child, Jing-mei Woo was forced to be everything she wasn’t, even when she tried to stay true to herself, the temptation of being a worthy…

A day of shopping with her daughter made Brittney Johnson realize just how much her actions impact her child. from the way she talks, acts, treats others, and herself. The pair were walking through the mall when the mother watched as her daughter chatted with a man at Starbucks, told a woman in a restaurant "please," "thank you," and "I just love your hair!" The little girl happily gave a high-five to the carousel worker, and gave her extra tokens away to another girl, but the moment became…

Plath was therefore caught up in a time where on a very subconscious level she still had the values of an “ideal housewife” infused in her psyche, while she was also a newly empowered young ambitious woman trying to find independent identity and leave a mark in this world. Therefore the same woman who thought that to be deprived of the experience of child birth and motherhood is a “death indeed”, also questions “when and if” is she would feel anything at all for her child. (Plath, Sylvia. The…