Amy Tan And Jing Mei Woo: Two Kinds

The diction and tone that the author used in the novel helped to support the dialogue and thoughts of Anna. Diction and tone helped display Anna's emotions.

“Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.” Salvatore Quasimodo, (Flavorwire.com). Many can resonate with this quote because poetry can even be appealing to a new reader; it allows them experience life in ways they’ve never before. In other words poetry really allows someone to maintain an experience so someone else can later access it as their own: it’s basically a way of sharing once inner thoughts, experiences and memories with others. In this essay I will be comparing the poetry of Li-Young Lee. The two specific poems I will compare are “The Gift” and “I ask my mother to sing”. Although both poems are based

The tones which Tan and Sultaan use in their stories differ, as they each are writing about different experiences while expressing their feelings (Jack and Pryal 2016). The tone of Abida Sultaan’s The Memoirs of a Rebel Princess, begins with hatred and dread for learning. This is because of the harsh method her grandmother took in teaching the young girl (7). This tone continues through the story, and Sultaan’s attitude towards learning leads to her resistance and small rebellions towards her grandmother’s demands. Further into the story, Sultaan transitions this tone from

Each story makes use of a very unique tone and form of narration yet these same qualities can be compared to some extent across these essays. The authors utilize different forms of writing to convey their intended focus to the audience. I found each story relative to one another in that they all seemed to touch of the subject of the roles of different genders in our contemporary society maybe even across different cultures.

In the first place, mother-daughter relations between Chinese mothers and ABC daughters are not easy ones in Tan's novels. They are always problematic. Mothers want to bring up

Every individual in this world faces some type of problem through out their lives, and everyone overcomes them in different ways. People sometimes release their stress and problems through writing what they feel, and by writing they feel they go somewhere else. Amy Tan, a Chinese American, struggled with her true identity which influence her works which mainly focus on identity, the Chinese American dream, and family struggles. Amy Tan had a childhood full of ups and downs, and they are all part of her stories and poems. She overcame many obstacles in her life and learned many lessons that are all reflected in her works. Many of Tan’s works are about personal experiences she had and about her family.

The mother, truly wants what is best for her daughter, but refuses to acknowledge that her daughter does not want to be a prodigy or play the piano. Her daughter only wants to live her own life and does not understand the success her mother is trying to push on her. Every mother and daughter relationship is different, but the most classic type is the “mother knows best trope.” Of course, if the story was presented in China, rather than America, the daughter may have fallen into her mother’s life path, “"Only two kinds of daughters," she shouted in Chinese. "Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind! Only one kind of daughter can live in this house. Obedient daughter!" (Tan pg #). However, since her daughter was born in America, she was given an opportunity to be who she wanted to be, because of America’s new dream of independence and

Jing Mei’s mother tries in multiple ways to help her daughter achieve greatness but it is made impossible due to Jing Mei’s stubborn and ungrateful ways. In Amy Tan’s story, “Two Kinds”, Jing Mei changes from unappreciative to appreciative when she realized that lack of appreciation leads to frustration and anger.

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The main rhetoric appeal used by Tan is pathos, the appeal to emotion. Language becomes an obstacle for Tan because her mother speaks limited English. Amy must be an interpreter for her mother in instances where her mother cannot communicate effectively. ?And sure enough, the following week there we were in

Emotions are expressed immediately at the beginning of the writing to have his readers grasp his feelings of the situation. Goldstein compares Chua’s “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother” a “depiction of Chinese-style extreme parenting” (Goldstein 272). He then continues to maintain the reader’s attention by explaining Chua’s parenting skills by addressing the fact how the children cannot have play dates, or even watch television. Goldstein inspires his readers by giving individual’s personal experiences that reflect how they became successful.

I always like to think through the author’s essays style of what the author is like. Like Cynthia Ozick, by reading “the shock of teapots” and “The Seam of the snail” I imagine that Cynthia probably is a very romantic and loved life woman. Even though these two essays are both written by her; both essays have similarities in using own experiences, beautiful vocabulary and self reflection. However, they differ from developing sentences structure.

In her short story "Two Kinds," Amy Tan utilizes the daughter's point of view to share a mother's attempts to control her daughter's hopes and dreams, providing a further understanding of how their relationship sours. The daughter has grown into a young woman and is telling the story of her coming of age in a family that had emigrated from China. In particular, she tells that her mother's attempted parental guidance was dominated by foolish hopes and dreams. This double perspective allows both the naivety of a young girl trying to identify herself and the hindsight and judgment of a mature woman.

In both stories, the future expectation of a daughter’s outcome affects the mother-daughter relationship as seen from both the mother and the daughter. Like the idea of self-fulfilling prophecy, if a mother treats her daughter as a frail being, an invalid, and keeps her daughter shut in, the effect on a healthy daughter will be to identify themselves as a fragile being who needs to be shut in since that’s all they’ve been told. Similarly, when a mother is exceptionally stern and opinionated about their daughter’s sexuality, based on the mother’s constant berating and calling the girl a whore, the girl may actually begin to identify herself

Furthermore, Amy Tan writes a wonderful short story about the complicated relationship between mothers and daughters, yet one can be enriching. The theme of “Two