Amy Tan Research Paper

"But even if I had known I was getting such a bad husband, I had no choice, now or later. That was how backward families in the country were. We were always the last to give up stupid old- fashioned customs" (24). Amy Tan, the writer of The Joy Luck Club, incorporates many Chinese customs and traditions along with personal experiences into her writing. Because times change and new generations are produced and brought into the world, conflicts tend to arise between parents and their children. From issues on self-worth to having trouble embracing the Chinese culture, Tan creates a storyline incorporating three mother/daughter pairs who truly encompass these challenges. Upon analyzing

During a time of oppression and fear, immigrants had no choice but to travel to America. Ranging from Europeans to Asian, these particular individuals have spent countless hours to make it through custom and learning a new language in order to transition into America. One Asian American writer named Amy Tan was introduced to a unique and different lifestyle from her parents and that was making a shift from their English to the standard American English. As a result, this lifestyle allowed her to witness and experience how an Asian parent raises their children in America and how she broke outside of that barrier. One particular instance in Tan’s lifestyle was the constant use of “broken” English from her mother.

I am going to be talking about the celerity I would like to come to the school and tell us about how it feels to be a movie star and what it takes to get there.

Best selling author, Michelle McNamara, wrote some of the greatest crime novels of our time, but few people knew about her secret life. Michelle had her own private drug den filled with a variety of prescription and illegal drugs.

The Joy Luck Club is a novel known as the novel of stories within stories. This is because of how it is structured,Amy Tan writes about sixteen different interwoven stories about Chinese immigrant mothers and their relationships with their American born daughters. Amy Tan creates four different sections each of which contain four different narratives. In the first section the mother's recall their own relationships with their mothers back in china. The next section the

The Joy Luck Club is the first novel by Amy Tan, published in 1989. The Joy Luck Club is about a group of Chinese women that share family stories while they play Mahjong. When the founder of the club, Suyuan Woo, died, her daughter June replaced her place in the meetings. In her first meeting, she finds out that her lost twin sisters were alive in China. Before the death of Suyuan, the other members of the club located the address of June’s half-sisters. After that, they send June to tell her half-sisters about her mother’s life. In our lives there are events, and situations that mark our existence and somehow determine our life. In this novel, it shows how four mothers and their daughters were impacted by their tradition and beliefs. In the traditional Asian family, parents define the law and the children are expected to follow their requests and demands; respect for one’s parents and elders is critically important. Traditions are very important because they allow us to remember the beliefs that marked a whole culture.

In the novel The Joy Luck Club written by Amy Tan, there are several stories that intertwine into one novel. Each of the stories takes place China where the roles and the actions of woman are vastly different compared to American tradition. In the different stories, they all are about different mothers and daughters. Throughout the book, the reader can see the development in each relationship between mother and daughter with their conflicting backgrounds from China to America.

But the main problem between mothers and daughters in Amy Tan's novels is the lack of communication. As will be discussed below, mothers usually have some terrible hidden secret, something that even her closest relatives ignore. In "The Joy Luck Club" is the fact that Suyuan Woo had been formerly married and had two lost children in China in The Kitchen's God Wife, we have the same again; and, finally, in The Hundred Secret Senses, the father is the one who had a secret past life, but here also the relationship between mother and daughter are somewhat problematic. Olivia is not very close to her mother, who used to care more about finding an exotic partner than for her children.

Tanisha Thomas, better known for her participation on the 2nd season of reality show "Oxygen's Bad Girls club" was born in August 28, 1985 in Brooklyn, New York. Apart from her appearance on reality show, she is also known as the host who has appeared in Love games: Bad girls need love too. She also took part in many other reality shows.

My assigned partner, Michelle Nguyen, was born in California and is part Vietnamese. She is a major foodie but prefers not to eat meat, and does not have a favorite food. Michelle described herself as clumsy, bipolar, lazy, awkward, and an introvert. She has a love-hate relationship with makeup, which I can relate to. Michelle played piano since she was four but quit when she turned twelve. Michelle played volleyball for her high school all four years and has been playing since fifth grade. She loves animals and her favorites are puppies and bunnies. When she was young she had a small dog that had passed away but she does not have any pets at the moment.

Sarah Phulajanma was bored. Her skills as a great ship pilot were not being challenged while working as the largely ceremonial captain of a funeral barge. As middle age set into her waistline, she decided to change her dishwater career circling between a dozen star systems to the more exciting seas of working for a shipping company to assist the expanding frontier colonies in the Verdes Mujeres systems. But the recruitment posters did not warn Sarah of the hardships she was to endure.

The name of the music singer was Lauren Lark. According to the show program, Lauren brought the bright women music between the 1940’s and 1950’s into the 20th century. Lauren has completed her Bachelor in music performance at the University of the Arts, where she received the desirable Best Jazz vocalist. Lauren was made a history as the only vocalist to perform with the Reginal Grammy Award. She was a librettist and the singer. During the show performance, Lauren has sung so many works by the local and the international women artist. The show was started with an introduction, welcome the guest and the bright women in the music by professor Carol Evans.

Ann Lee was born on February 29, 1736. There is not much account on her childhood, therefore, it is hard to depict if her childhood had any influence on her later, more known life. She exhibited religion and living in Manchester, England accounted for the moral decay of it. She sought spiritual refuge and ended up finding the Shaking Quakers, a religious society. This group would express their sins, dance, sing, violently shake, and shout. The Shakers were disruptive to peace, and Ann herself was jailed. During imprisonment, she had a lot of visions and spiritual contributions and “by a special manifestation of divine light the present testimony of salvation and eternal life was fully revealed to her," she became the leader or “mother” of the

Amy Tan said in the People Magazine in 1989 about her novel, The Joy Luck Club, “The book could be about any culture or generation and what is lost between them.” Amy Tan reveals that the mothers try to pass on their Chinese heritage and teach their American-born daughters to avoid the mistakes the mothers made growing up in China. However, the daughters often see their mothers’ attempts at guidance as attempting to control their lives. The mother and daughter pair of Lindo and Waverly epitomize this relationship, where Lindo tries to integrate Chinese and American cultures into her own life and Waverly tries to both be independent and keep her Chinese heritage. Although Waverly and Lindo do not mend their cultural conflicts completely, their experiences with one another allow them to change and accept one another.

Nicole Seelert continues to excel in and outside of school. As a senior, getting ready to apply for colleges and leaving a place that we've gotten so used to can be a bit nerve racking, but for Nicole, she is nothing but prepared and excited for what her future has in store for her. This year she is looking forward to see what college she will be attending as acceptance letters come in. For fun, she loves to spend time with her family and her friends because they are the people she can be the most open with. In school, she is currently involved in the Red Cross Club and has recently started volunteering for the city of Chino. In the future her goal is to become a cardiovascular nurse or a per fusionist. With her determination, there is nothing