Tian Tan Buddha

In the essay “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan. Tan emphasizes that we all speak in different languages in our own way, and how we are categorized by the way we speak. In this essay she is talking about how her Asian mom talks in a different kind of English and how that affected her growing up. Tan has a mother who is from Asia, she speaks in a language that Americans would call “broken English.” Tan said that she would all ways have to make phone calls or talk for her mom when they would go places…

Both Hulga (Joy) in “Good Country People” and Wangero (Dee) in “Everyday Use” have become lost in their own right. Neither knows what to do in order to break free from their own confusion. In fact, they both go through a process where there think they are superior to others. In the story, “Everyday Use”, the main character originally named Dee changes their name to “Wangero” to escape the oppression that is attached to the name Dee (A slave master gave it to one of her ancestors). Wangero…

“Rice Husband”. This story is told from the point of view of Lena St. Clair, daughter of Ying-Ying St. Clair. At the beginning of the chapter Lena mentions how she “believe[s] [her] mother has the mysterious ability to see things before they happen” (Tan 149). Throughout the story Lena talks about how her and her husband, Harold, met. She tells how they fell in love, moved in together and got married. All the while she feels uneasy about little things that happen in their relationship.…

mother’s place. Jing-Mei accepts and learns more about her mother’s life in China, and the sacrifices she made to be in America. All of these mothers attempt to pass some sort of wisdom down to their daughters. In her novel, The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan reflects on multigenerational Chinese immigrants living in America to illustrate how values translate through generations. Suyuan Woo’s childhood values are responsibility, and fortune & luck. She lived a hard life in China after the Japanese…

not to respond to her attempt of finding her prodigy after seeing her mother being disappointed with her poor performance at her piano recital (Tan, 391). There is a moment where she has a shouting match between her and her mother when she cries out “Why don’t you like me the way I am? (…)” and it is implied that she doesn’t feel that her mother likes her (Tan, 389). It very well could be that she has a very deep fear in her subconscious that her mother will not like her unless she is a child…

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, tackles many themes throughout the book. These themes seem to be illustrated through the conflicts between the main characters specifically the conflicts involving the mothers and daughters. The book also provides an insight at the role that age and culture play in regards to conflict resolution. Suyuan and Jing-mei Suyuan is the founder of the Joy Luck Club and mother of Jing-mei. Suyuan can be considered a competitor throughout the novel. Throughout her life we…

The society suppose so much of the next generation that will lead the world one day, it is over whelming all the hopes we need to accomplish to become the ideal generation. The author Amy Tan in the short story “Two Kinds” genuinely makes us realise how we can’t forecast people future; they need to create their own path for themselves. Growing up with people that apprehend superior expectation of you is hard, Jing-Mei suffered of her mothers hopes that she had for herself all her life. The…

The novel Women of Tammuz, written by Azucena Grajo Uranza, embodies the Filipino’s way of living and how they cope with the events happening around them in the Philippines during the Japanese era. As history suggests, the Philippines was colonised by the Spanish, then the Americans, and lastly, the Japanese. Numerous events happened in that span of roughly 400 years, and like other events, the rest is history. Historically speaking, the Women of Tammuz tackles on the perspective of Japanese…

1. Why was Jing-mei taking part in the Joy Luck Club? -After the death of her mother, Jing-mei Woo was asked to fill the open seat in the Joy luck club that her mother had left behind. 2. How many Joy Luck Clubs have there been? -There was 2 Joy Luck Clubs, The other one taking place in China during the Sino-Japanese war. 3. Why did Jing-mei’s mother form the Joy Luck Club in Kweilin? -The Joy Luck Club was formed to take the mind off of the ongoing war. 4. Why did the women in the club…

this. Her husband had cheated on her, and she wanted the divorce to be over quickly because “he wanted to get married again to someone else” (Tan 217). Rose was upset, but because of America’s system, she was able to assert power over him. When he came over and expected to take their house from her she said, “I’ve already found a place [to live] …Here” (Tan 219). Rose was given the power to leave her relationship, and she was given the tools to support herself. Unlike Ying-Ying, Rose was able to…