The Joy Luck Club

Yuchin is the unrealistic character of The Bane of the Internet, a short story written by Ha Jin. This story has an almost humorous tone as two sisters, one who lives in China and the other in New York, communicate with each other. This character and her older sister wrote and sent each other letters via the postal service as their main means of communication until they discovered email. The name of the older sister is unknown but this story is told through her point of view. The narrator is…

Bharati Mukherjeeoccupies a very important place among the diasporic writers.The circumstances of her birth, upbringing, education in India, marriage to a North American and her education and career on the American continent are the indispensable contexts to understand her fiction. Sheis a prominent Indian American immigrant novelist. This paper aims to study how Bharati Mukherjee deals with a woman’s quest for identity in her novel Desirable Daughters.She presents the various circumstances in…

“But you can vanquish the demons only when you yourself are convinced of your own worth”(181). Author, Adeline Yen Mah, shares the horrors of her childhood growing up as an unwanted daughter in the autobiography Chinese Cinderella. The first years of a child’s life are the most crucial in shaping the person they will become. For young Adeline Yen Mah, these defining years shaped her into a strong, intelligent women despite her poor upbringing. The novel Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah,…

Nea, who is a main character and narrator, is Sourdi’s younger sister in May-Lee Chai’s “Saving Sourdi.” She offers insight to the story as a child, young refugee in America, and as a hopeful and extremely protective sister. My goal is to explore the importance of Nea’s perspective to “Saving Sourdi,” as well as how the viewpoints of other characters would change the story. As the one who’s “always saving Sourdi,” like the title suggests, it seems natural that Nea is the narrator. While Nea’s…

The lack of mother hood in Taming of the Shrew caused a sense of vulnerability to both girls. Katherine may have seen the way the mother acted and is either mimicking or trying to avoid how her mom was. If you look at the synetic theater’s version of the taming of the shrew it starts off with Batista (the girls father), Katherine, and Bianca are all at the gravesite of there mom preparing for the burial of the mother.If you have yet to take notice that in the vast majority of Shakespeare's plays…

In chapter 52 of East of Eden, Abra talks to Cal about why she no longer loves Aron. She says that, in childhood, their story like dreams of marriage and a happy future satisfied her. But, as she grew older, she grew to realize that she wanted more than to live in a story. This really spoke to me, as the discussion of reality and fantasy intrigues me. I find Abra’s decision to face reality and want to live in it extremely admirable, as fantasy is so often much more appealing and tempting.…

Individual Case Study: Warm Fuzz Cards Kristy Page Professor Nancy Rossiter ENT3004 - 02250 September 17, 2017 Introduction Erica Mills owns a successful greeting card business, Warm Fuzz Cards, and is currently considering various ways to grow her business as she pursues motherhood. She could continue with her current, slow-growth strategy or incorporate a new fast-growth strategy. Opting for the slow growth strategy may cause her to forfeit some significant business…

Tenacious-Actions “tried to cultivate some hidden genius in me”- Tan 37 “she was trying all these years to find her daughters”- Tan 279 Suyuan is tenacious concerning two things: finding her daughter’s “hidden” natural talent and her twin daughters that she sadly had to abandon. Suyuan’s first endeavor of turning her child,June, into a “prodigy” was by watching “Shirley’s old movies on TV as though they were training films”(Tan 132) with her in attempts of making her a “Chinese Shirley…

Amy Chua, a professor at Yale Law School, the author of “The World on Fire”, “Day of Empire”, and “Why They Fall”, in a Wall street Journal on January 8th, 2011, wrote “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior”. Amy is known as a ‘Tiger Mom”, one who pushes their children to be the best of the best academically. Chinese parents raise their children to meet high expectations. They want them to be very well prepared for the future. Chinese parenting may make your son or daughter a prodigy, but is it what…

The story “Two Kinds” of Amy tans shows us the conflict between the mother from China cultural and the daughter from American’s cultural. Suyuan, who is known as Jing-mei’s mother, suffers from her losses of a first husband and two babies in China. She believes that in the U.S everyone can be anything they want to be by working hard, even they are genius or prodigy. So, she keeps her daughter staying busy by scheduling her many differences activities such as coming to beauty training school…