Amy Tan Rhetorical Analysis

The outcome of trying to express herself in her true nature often got her punished severely. Tan feels less fortunate to have been in an immigrant family because many of her opportunities were taken away because of that. While growing up, Tan believed that because her "mother 's English …had an

Joanna Bauer, she is the facilitator at the University of Phoenix. And she explained how to construct an academic paragraph. It is very interesting and will follow her guidance. Accordingly to her "Effective communication is the key to success in business." Also, it is crucial to take these consideration in an essay.

2. In paragraph 6, Tan quotes a passage of her mother’s speech. With this quotation, the purpose that she wants to serve is show how her mother uses the English language to express herself.

Dawn Huebner, discusses a topic in her TED talk that everyone is familiar with; anxiety. She starts out reminding us that a little bit of anxiety is okay, but when it becomes debilitating, it is then concerning. She also adds a third member to the acute stress response; freeze, explaining that when addressed with a stressful situation a person can fight, flight or freeze. This talk was very informative and I was really glad my husband was present while I was listening to it. He has been struggling with social anxiety more than usual lately, and I have been encouraging him to seek help for it. He was interested in the bribing technique used by Mrs. Huebner, and suggested a very expensive video game for as reinforcement for attending my upcoming

In the book Enrique’s Journey the author Sonia Nazario depicts a story of a young boy whose mother leaves him at the age of 4. He is on a quest to find his mother in the USA facing hard obstacles throughout this journey. Sonia Nazario writes about Enrique’s experiences and it serves as an explanation on how people try to accomplish the American Dream. According to Dictionary. com the American dream is “ the ideal that every USA citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity through hard work, determination, and initiative.” To better comprehend the book there were other sources: This is Life, starring Vincent Chou, the poem Let America Be America Again the documentary Immigration Battle and the narrative Which Way Home. Some topics that will be based off this information are money, poverty and family.

In the short play A Raisin in the sun conflict’s both internal and external occure for in three of the main characters regarding their dreams. When the opportunity came for them to accomplish their dreams through using the insurance money they’ve come across from the loss of a family member, one of the main characters, Walter, wishes to be successful in life; but he needs the insurance money to do so. He wants to use the insurance money to open up a liquor store because he believes this would change his life. A exceptional quote that shows his determination to be successful in life is when he speaks to Ruth “You tired, ain’t you? Tired of everything. Me, the boy. The way we live-this beat up hole-everything”(

I came from a high school where all my closest friends were athletic like me, were loud and vulgar like me, and extremely prideful like me. The athleticism inspired an extremely competitive bond between us. Our pride wouldn’t allow us to lose to each other in any event. Anything was a competition; racing down the street, a better grade on a test, how much food we ate during lunch are all examples. Needless to say, if any of my buddies and I shared the same class we would fight for the teachers and peers attention by attempting to be the funniest and most importantly, the loudest. Whenever the teacher would hold a class discussion I would always try to be the first one to shout out an answer, and sure enough a buddy of mine would routinely

Improving undesirable working conditions for women and eliminating child labor was an impassioned issue for female reformers during the time of industrialization in the United States. Florence Kelley, a united states social worker and reformer, opposes the appalling work environment children as young as six would toil through and relays her speech to the National Woman Suffrage Association to propel her audience to demand changes that are necessary to stop countless hours of hard-work the youth struggle to complete. Kelley adopts a fervid tone in order to convince the audience that political action is needed to adjust the laws that allows child labor to continue in many states with her use of pathos and rhetorical questions meant to stir action

Deborah Tannen is a professor in linguistics at Georgetown University. She studies the different patterns of language, like talking to people at work, friends, family, politics, academics, law, and how the ways we talk affect relationships with others. In her essay, “Oh, Mom. Oh, Honey. : Why Do You Have to Say That? ” The author’s purpose in this essay is about how mother and daughter relationships are, and what the mother is trying to say to the daughter, when talking to her. The reason behind the author’s purpose, is because her own mother was gradually getting weak. She started spending more time with her mother and caring for her. When her mom died, it transformed her thinking about mother and daughter relationships. She uses real life experiences and dialect to convey her intentions to the reader. In the essay, the author uses research and conducted interviews that she found about mother and daughter relationships, to show the actual meaning to what mothers are saying to their daughters when communicating.

"My mother believed you could be anything you wanted to be in America. You could open a restaurant. You could would for the government and get good retirement. You could buy a house with almost no money down. You could become rich. You could become instantly famous. ‘Of course you can be prodigy, too,' my mother told me when I was nine. ‘You can be best anything'" (141).

The American Dream, a dream on which our country has been built on and continues to develop and bring new and new waves of immigrants. It is a part of each American; this dream has been the light at the end of the tunnel for which our parents and ancestors were coming for. To find a life that was rewarded and built only on their will of hard working and efforts.

"America where all my mother's hopes lay. She has come to San Francisco in 1949 after losing everything in China: her mother and father, her home, her first husband, and two daughters, twin baby girls. But

Her mother’s strong determination towards success was built from past experience of losing family members while in China. Being in America, she takes the advantage to make her daughter the best she can be. Even as the narrator is an adult, the mother still believes in her, “‘You

The daughter is bored with her mother's dreams and lets her pride take over. She often questions her self-worth, and she decides that she respects herself as nothing more than the normal girl that she is and always will be. Her mother is trying to mold her into something that she can never be, she believes, and only by her futile attempts to rebel can she hold on to the respect that she has for herself. The daughter is motivated only to fail so that she may continue on her quest to be normal. Her only motivation for success derives from her own vanity; although she cannot admit it to herself or her mother, she wants the audience to see her as that something that she is not, that same something that her mother hopes she could be.

For millions of immigrants, America has been seen as the land of opportunity where anyone could become anything he or she wanted to be. A family that believes strongly in the American dream can be found in Amy Tan’s short story, “Two Kinds.” The story centers around the daughter of a Chinese immigrant who desperately wants her daughter to become successful. In the story, the author shows the difficult lives immigrants face when moving to a new culture. In this short story, the theme shows the protagonist’s conflict with her mother on the type of daughter her mother wants her to be. The author establishes the theme of how difficult mother-daughter relationships can be through characterization, setting, and symbolism.