Essays Tagged: "Jing"
The Joy Luck Club
nessed her mother's death. Daisy's father had died when she was very young. Her mother, the widowed Jing-mei had been forced to become the concubine of a rich man who raped her because she refused to ... forced to become the concubine of a rich man who raped her because she refused to marry him. Later Jing-mei bore the rich man a son. It became a more tragic story after one of rich man's principal wi ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
"Two Kinds" by Amy Tan.
ortantly, they have been the one to love us when we needed it the most. In "Two Kinds," by Amy Tan, Jing-mei is a young daughter of a Chinese immigrant. Growing up she had to endure being raised by an ... learn how to become a woman on her own terms. Throughout the story, her mother repeatedly pressures Jing-mei to be something that she is not. She wants Jing-mei to somehow become a prodigy child. Howe ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Amy Tan's "Two Kinds".
p between a Chinese immigrant mother and a first-generation American daughter. Throughout the text, Jing-mei's mother continually pushes her to become a prodigy. She is so obsessive of her daughter's ... so obsessive of her daughter's excellence, that she does not see the emotional damage she creates. Jing-mei reacts negatively to the pressure. She becomes indifferent, angry, excited and hopeful; her ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
"The Joy-luck Club" a book/movie review
her Chinese heritage with her American surroundings. Indeed, this reconciliation is the very aim of Jing-mei's journey to China. While the daughters in the novel are genetically Chinese (except for Le ... uld walk around the house with her eyes opened as far as possible so as to make them look European. Jing-mei denied during adolescence that she had any internal Chinese aspects, insisting that her Chi ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
The Joy Luck Club
ense of home better than they had everhad before.The last of the relationships is of Suyuan Woo and Jing-mei June Woo. In the beginning, June is asked to go to China and tell her half-sisters about he ... her mothers life, only for June to say she does not know her mother. Suyuan's high expectations for Jing-mei only led Jing-mei to want to quit and fail everything just in spite of her mother. She achi ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
The Joy Luck Club
ading to subtle misunderstandings.The first mention of this difficulty with translation occurs when Jing-mei relates the story of her mother's founding of the Joy Luck Club. After attempting to explai ... r's founding of the Joy Luck Club. After attempting to explain the significance of the club's name, Jing-mei recognizes that the concept is not something that can be translated. She points out that th ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
Style Analysis of Amy Tan in "The Joy Luck Club"
reader to profoundly learn the feelings and thoughts of nearly all the characters. Incidentally, in Jing-mei's story, as she and her long lost sisters reunite, she realizes "what part of [her] is Chin ... t of [her] is Chinese...it is so obvious...it is [her] family" (Tan 331). Before the trip to China, Jing-mei "vigorously denie[s] that she [has] any Chinese whatsoever below [her] skin" (Tan 306). Thr ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
A Letter to Amy Tan - "Joy Luck Club"
year ago, I picked up your book during my monthly visit to Barnes and Noble and met my other self, Jing-mei Woo, or June (her American name). She was everything I am, a confused and out of place litt ... at this feigned all-American identity is incomplete and became interested in my Chinese heritage as Jing-mei discovered hers. I found an identity embodying the two cultures and appreciated the complex ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors
"The Joy Luck Club" - Appearance and Reality
g and Lena about how not judge people the way the behave.Thirdly, there is a strong rivalry between Jing-mei and Waverly. Waverly as a chess childhood prodigy was a champion from the childhood and so ... gy was a champion from the childhood and so she ended up being a successful accountant in her life. Jing-mei on the other hand works as a copyrighter in a small business. On the New Year’s dinner ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Two Kinds
"I won't let her change me, I promised myself. I won't be what I'm not." This is what Jing-mei said to herself after taking one of her mothers difficult tests of intelligence. Since Jing ... f someone else because they are trying to be an individual, then how does one find their real self? Jing-mei cannot find her true self, because of her negative reactions against her mother.Jing-mei's ... r.Jing-mei's mother moved them to America when she was a child. In America, her mother dreamed that Jing-mei could be anything she wanted to be, and have the opportunities that she did not have. Jing- ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Amy Tan - Two Kinds Conflict Analysis
#65533; displays the relationship between a Chinese mother and a disobedient Americanized daughter. Jing-mei, a second-generation Chinese daughter, deals with her own internal conflict as well as an e ... well as an external conflict with her mother. The internal effort to find her true self is a lesson Jing-mei will have to discover, as she gets older. Being born of Chinese heritage, Jing-mei struggle ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
The Mother of "Two Kinds", a book by Amy Tan
society. "My mother squared her shoulders and bragged: "Our problem is worser then yours. If we ask Jing-mei wash dish, she hear nothing but music. Its like you can't stop this natural talent." (Page ... clusion, it is obvious that the mother's sets of standards and beliefs played a big roll in raising Jing-mei. Her goals were controlling beyond any limits, resulting in the lack of concern for what he ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management
Theme in a pair of tickets
Amy Tan's "A Pair of Tickets" is the account of Jing-mei, an American woman on a pilgrimage to China to meet her half-sisters, abandoned by her moth ... pilgrimage to China to meet her half-sisters, abandoned by her mother in China during World War II. Jing-mei's mother always hoped of reuniting with her daughters she left behind long ago, but she die ... ind long ago, but she died of an aneurysm before the opportunity arose. Through chance, a friend of Jing-mei's mother, still in China, spied the twins while shopping. The mother was already deceased, ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History
"A Pair Of Tickets"
sense of one class looking down on another but of the internal racial tension that rages on inside Jing-mei as the battle between what she is by birth and what she is by nature tears her apart when s ... rs her long lost sisters just a month after her mother dies.In "A Pair of Tickets" the protagonist, Jing-mei, receives a letter from her long lost twin sisters. The sisters are hoping to reunite with ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Commentary on the excerpt "Two Kinds" from the short novel "Joy Luck Club"
iger mom, is both common and harshly perceived. As evidenced from the story "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan, Jing-mei's mother fits the stereotype of a tiger mom, vaguely defined as a harsh mother with high ex ... h expectations, who wants a daughter acceptable enough to show her off to her friends. Even though, Jing-mei eventually could not cope with the ever increasing standards of her mother, she continues t ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Language Studies > Writing