Tian Tan Buddha

1. Two Kinds is narrated by Jing-mei Woo. Her mother is the one who founds the Joy Luck Club in 1949 before Jing-mei is born. She immigrated to the US to find opportunity, and she believes in the “American Dream” – that “you could be anything you wanted to be in America” (132). Jing-mei and her mother are close in the beginning of the chapter. They are also excited for Jing-mei’s journey to become a prodigy 2. After she loses her mother, father, home, children, and husband in China, she feels…

Regardless of these hardships, these women strongly display resilience through their persistence in creating a brighter future not only for themselves but for their children as well. Tan stresses the fact that having a strong family basis is extremely influential on the path an individual takes as exemplified by all four of the families in the novel. As mentioned by Michael Magali Cornier in Choosing Hope and Remaking Kinship: Amy Tan's…

HOLMESVILLE — At home they call her Eileen, but at the Holmes County Training Center she goes by Betty, a name she shares with her mother. Unlike many clients served by the Training Center and the Holmes County Board of Developmental Disabilities, Betty Masters was not born with a disability. She became disabled after suffering a traumatic brain injury, the result of a car crash when she was 20. And, while she struggles to move and communicate in conventional ways, Masters enjoys to write. And,…

In The Bonesetter’s Daughter, which takes place partly in modern-day San Francisco and party in China during World War II, Amy Tan intertwines the two stories of a mother, LuLing Young, and her daughter, Ruth Young, to describe how they struggle with understanding each other while confronting issues from their own pasts. Ruth finds her mother’s old Chinese superstitions annoying and had difficulties connecting to her heritage; as she attempts to integrate into her boyfriend Art’s family, she…

Amy Tan, the author of “Mother Tongue” properly executes this essay by making her points through consecutive aspects and examples to proof the reader of the current cultural racism. Tan focuses on real stories, with enough details for it to make it believable and so to persuade the readers. She uses a soft and calm tone, which in this case, since she is writing for an audience who are ignorant towards this topic, it’s much more efficient than an aggressive or threatening tone. She is trying to…

The reader is able to see this story though Jing-mei's eyes. This point-of-view helps the reader see her actions and feelings in a more personal way, rather then a third person presentation. One can actually understand the internal conflict more clearly. She lets her true identity poke through when she says, "I am in China, I remind myself. And somehow the crowds don't bother me. It feels right. I start pushing too" (860). In this story, there really isn't anything disclosed to us which produces…

The story of Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah is a story of a little girl that is isolated from her family, her whole life. From Adeline’s birth her family didn’t accept her and didn’t like her; especially Niang. Although Adeline’s biological brother and sisters were treated worse than their step-brother and sister, Adeline was treated worse. She didn’t have anyone to look out for her, besides Aunt Baba. Adeline had one person to look out for her, Aunt Baba, but she also had a pet that she…

The passage, “A Pair of Tickets” is an excerpt from the book, The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan. Tan’s book is a narrative that derives from Tan’s life growing up as a Chinese-American. Jing-Mei “June” Woo is a thirty-six year old woman who has always considered herself to be “American” as she was born and raised in San Francisco, California. June finally travels to her motherland as a result of her recently deceased mother’s desire to reconcile with her long lost daughters. Throughout her journey…

text they’ve read. Amy Tan is no exception and succeeded in getting her readers to dispute over her works. For instance scholars argue over whether the narrative beginnings in The Joy Luck Club took a feminist view point or if the beginnings were there to analyze cultural identity (Romagnolo). Her works like The Bonesetter’s Daughter and The Joy Luck Club assess controversial deliberations. Tan expresses her argument through her characters based on real life situations. Amy Tan evaluates…

An-mei soon figures out that her mother had committed suicide in an attempt to benefit her daughter’s life. An-mei learns of sacrifice, how her mother “Killed her own weak spirit so she could give [An-mei] a stronger one” (Tan 240). It becomes evident to the reader, that the trials An-mei faced transformed her from a weak minded child to an emotionally stronger and now independent person which shall aid her in her final part of her hero’s journey. The final aspect of the…