The Joy Luck Club

As humans, we are inconsiderate and greedy animals who proceed down the most corrupted path to achieve our goals. Gone are our ethical values when our hunger for success is unleashed. Unconcerned with the wellbeing of others, our lethal daggers plunge into our vulnerable prey. With so many witnesses, why does no one step forward to save the victim? The answer is rather vague, and the ambiguity of the response is meant to mask the shameful reality; we, the human race, are selfishly disgusting. We…

I progressed through the first year of high school with the mindset of doing what was required of me-getting good grades. Unbeknownst to me, that mindset was actually restricting me. The tenth grade was the year I recognized this. Luckily, my English teacher helped me eradicate that mindset. Through microphones, Mrs. Andrews allowed us to debate the role racism played in Huck and Jim’s relationship throughout The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, in which my respect grew for the diverse opinions…

Cisneros, having grown up in America, often experienced rifts between her Mexican parents and their cultures as well, and this is reflected in her writing. In “Only Daughter” she writes, “Being only a daughter for my father meant my destiny would lead me to become someone’s wife. That’s what he believed.” Here, cultural values clash as Cisneros recounts the conflicts she has faced in her life due to different ideologies in within her household. Similarly, in “Woman Hollering Creek”, the main…

Through various viewpoints, overlapping timelines and embellishments manifested by the author, Maxine Hong-Kingston is able to examine female roles and their assimilation into Chinese/Chinese-American society and culture; an extensive projection of Kingston’s intimate past and selfhood. Within this memoir, Kingston attempts to resolve the complexity of her own identity, being a Chinese-American, as she continuously discovers her cultural roots and sorts their placement within her own life. In…

The treatment they experience can cause them to lose who they are/trap them within the marriage. This concept of losing one 's self/entrapment is introduced in the novel “Joy Luck Club” and in the short story, “Story of an Hour”. Authors Amy Tan and Kate Chopin both convey their concept of marriage by using various literary devices such as symbolism, and juxtaposition to reveal the emotional turmoil that women endure when they…

Today’s observation took place on the most beautiful golf resort of Naples, Tiburon Golf Club at the Ritz Carlton Golf Resort where my subject currently works. The golf resort is made up of two lengthy courses one called the black course which is the hardest and the other the gold course which is the easier of the two. Today my subject Jason is playing the black course which has a rating of 69.7 and a slope of 133 this only explains the difficulty within the course. Each course has eighteen…

Clair, a character from Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club, uses food as a way to control her life and destiny as well. Lena is the daughter of a Chinese immigrant: her mother, Ying-ying, was born and raised in China and married an American man. Lena’s role in the household is that of a translator and…

her life and she often spent ninety hours a week at her job. To cure herself of being a workaholic, Tan joined the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. Through this, she began writing fiction. Her first novel, a collection of stories titled The Joy Luck Club made The New York Times best-seller list in 1989 and won several awards. Tan continued her writing career and published a new novel every few years. Her latest novel was titled Saving Fish from Drowning and was published in 2006. Tan lives…

that allowed him entry at only half the usual fee. (georgeorwell.org) He claims the school was abusive towards him and other students, though many dispute his claim. Even writing a essay about his resentment towards the school called Such Were the Joys in his later life and was published in 1952, two years after his death. (georgeorwell.org) He stayed there for five years, learning more about literature and doing military drills during period of the First World War, before attending Wellington…

The Far East Side of American Classrooms American sitcoms often mock societal trends and highlight the best and worst stereotypes of American cultures. Aibel and Berger, writers of the animated sitcom King of the Hill, made a very poignant statement in the episode “Westie Side Story”, when a Laotian family moves into the small Texas community (1997). The main character Hank Hill innocently asks his neighbor, “So, are you Chinese or Japanese?” His neighbor, Kahn Souphanousinphone, replies, “I…