Essays Tagged: "Amy Tan"

Two Kinds of Girls in Amy Tan's 'Two Kinds' and Jamaica Kincaid's 'Girl'

w we think, how we feel, and how we act. These are among the people who hold thegreatest influence. Amy Tan's 'Two Kinds' and Jamaica Kincaid's 'Girl' both deal with the relationshipbetween a young gi ... aid's 'Girl' both deal with the relationshipbetween a young girl and the guiding force in her life. Amy Tan tells of a mother's expectation for herdaughter to be a child prodigy. Jamaica Kincaid tells ...

(3 pages) 259 0 3.7 Nov/1993

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

this essay is about how america suppreses minorities and how its evident in the Amy Tan story "Two Kinds" and the story "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fishfight in Heaven"

me rich. You could become instantly famous." These are some of the dreams that Jing-Mei's mother in Amy Tan's Two Kinds has of America. She is not alone. Millions of people come to America to make the ...

(5 pages) 160 2 3.8 Apr/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

"A Pair of Ticket"

The short story 'A Pair of Tickets' is a component of a novel 'The Joy Luck Club' by AmyTan which focuses on a woman fulfilling the lifelong wish of her mother. The title symbolizes the ... he fulfilment of her mother's wish to once again seeher twin daughters. According to a character of Amy Tan, 'Your mother was a very strong woman,a good mother. She loved you very much, more than her ... he haddeveloped an illness caused by her depression of having to abandon them. In the Joy Luck Club,Amy Tan's narrator states that her father thinks the narrator's mother was killed by her own thought ...

(6 pages) 203 0 3.6 Mar/1995

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

The Joy Luck Club

How some characters in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club reflex aspect of her lifeAmy Tan has become one of the most successful A ... Association Award and many more awards. This novel has been very popular ever since. After reading Amy Tan's biography and her novel "The Joy Luck Club", people were fascinated by how her characters ... ly based on her own family story. Furthermore, the relationships between mothers and daughters that Amy Tan described in the story was reflected with her personal life story about the relationship tha ...

(3 pages) 151 0 4.6 Aug/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

"The Kitchen God's Wife": Chinese Culture, Relationships, Adversity

"The Kitchen God's Wife":Chinese Culture, Relationships, AdversityAmy Tan's novel "The Kitchen God's Wife" is the story of a relationship between a mother and daughte ... revelation that Winnie and Pearl experience; there is much, much more to this story. In this book, Amy Tan takes more time to explore Chinese history in China, around the time her mother would have l ... life. The outcome is pleasant with fair chances of a sorrowfree future.Born in Oakland, California, Amy Tan grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1988, Amy Tan was earning excellent living writing ...

(11 pages) 128 0 4.7 Nov/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

This is a summary for Amy Tan's "Mother Tongue".

Summary for Amy Tan's "Mother Tongue"The essay is chiefly about the writer's own rumination and judgment about h ...

(3 pages) 260 0 3.4 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Divide from within This essay is about generation gaps of the characteres in the book J"oyluck club" by Amy Tam.

e or actual potential for achieving these features. Similarly, in the book Joy Luck Club written by Amy Tan, the characters, Jing-mei "June" Woo, Rose Hsu Jordan and Waverly Jong experience a great de ...

(5 pages) 61 0 3.5 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

"The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan: mother and daughter relationships.

e." This quote has precise relevancy to the key theme of: Barriers existing between generations, in Amy Tan's captivating novel, The Joy Luck Club. As a litterateur, Ms. Tan evokes further realization ... e together in spirit and reconcile there past differences.Through out, each of the three stories in Amy Tan's novel a common idea of a Mothers love, and caring coming together with a mutual understand ...

(5 pages) 144 0 4.3 Mar/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

"The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan.

The Joy and Luck of the Family BrawlIn Amy Tan's "The Joy Luck Club", the characters always seem to be fighting. Usually it's a Chinese mot ...

(3 pages) 62 0 3.8 May/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

"Night" by Elie Wiesel, and "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan.

ust, but his unfortunate losses taken by the ultimate power of fate. Corresponding to Night, author Amy Tan of "The Joy Luck Club" tells the story of a group of Chinese women struggling to cope with t ... the holocaust. Although The Joy Luck Club was not a true story opposing to Night which was, author Amy Tan challenged herself in making the novel an autobiography of Chinese women struggling for thei ...

(4 pages) 128 2 4.3 Jul/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Amy Tan's "Two Kinds".

In Amy Tan's short story "Two Kinds" we see the strained relationship between a Chinese immigrant mothe ...

(2 pages) 152 1 4.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Amy Tan's "The Joy Luck Club".

In The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan explores the different mother-daughter relationships between the characters, and at a lower ... n understanding of the mentalities of both mother and daughter, and why each one is the way she is. Amy Tan explores the difficulties in growing up as a Chinese-American and the problems assimilating ... e mothers living through their daughters. Through the relationship between Suyuan and her daughter, Amy Tan clearly suggests Chinese mothers rely on success to establish status. Suyuan was a strong an ...

(12 pages) 153 0 4.8 Nov/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Discuss how The Joy Luck Club deals with the generation gap between mothers and daughters.

ok know each other and comment accordingly. It can also be argued that the story is a reflection of Amy Tan's (the author) life if you look at the biography.All the mother/daughter relationships are v ...

(2 pages) 79 0 3.8 Jan/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

The Joy Luck Club. An essay comparing and contrasting the differences of American and Chinese culture through the book by Amy Tan.

someone who will introduce themselves as a something - Canadian. In the book, The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, she writes about a group of four Chinese families who immigrate to the States, taking advan ...

(6 pages) 145 1 3.9 Feb/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Sexism in the Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan

uch harder for them to live with an optimistic view on life.Although sexism is not a major theme of Amy Tan's Joy Luck Club, it is clear that it does affect the lives of the mothers and daughters.Alth ...

(4 pages) 52 0 4.7 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

"Motifs of Amy Tan's 'The Joy Luck Club'" is about the motifs and themes in section 1 of Amy Tan's "The Joy Luck Club." It deals with motifs such as the color red, the five elements, and promises.

In the first section of The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, there are many motifs threaded throughout each of the four stories. One of which is the col ...

(2 pages) 84 1 3.2 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Traversing Through Linguistic and Cultural Barriers: The Joy Luck Club written by Amy Tan

le to identify with parents or other guardians at some point in their life. In The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan the characters must struggle not only with the generation gap, but also linguistic and cultu ...

(4 pages) 58 2 4.5 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Two kinds by amy tam

"Two Kinds"--taken from the book "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan--is a story about a mother who always has a wish that Jing-Mei, her nine-year-old daughter, ...

(14 pages) 181 1 4.1 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Joy Luck Club tied into the American Dream

is passion, provide the pure evidence of how no single person is alike entirely in our world today. Amy Tan's Joy Luck Club addresses this fact head on, with the morals and life stories offered up by ...

(5 pages) 51 0 5.0 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Describe an issue in The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan, and explain how the author presents it.

The book, The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan is a short story book. Each individual story is told from a different viewpoint of each of t ... e of cultural clash between the Americanised daughters and their still-traditional, Chinese mothers.Amy Tan does this by presenting the conflicting views and stories of both sides, providing the reade ... ' by a brief excerpt which carries a theme parallel to the ones explored by the stories that follow.Amy Tan presents this issue of cross-cultural mother-daughter relationships by examining the various ...

(5 pages) 74 1 4.1 May/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers