Compare And Contrast Champion Of The World And Fish Cheeks

Another Similarity both articles share is in their purpose. Both “Fish Cheeks” and Museum” are entertaining stories that each have an overarching life lesson not directly stated in each. “Fish Cheeks” by Amy Tan teaches the reader to never forget your upbringings, and the importance of family and heritage. Tan highlights this in her writing by entertaining the reader with a fun and short story from her past about an old crush and family embarrassment.

Maya Angelou and Amy Tan discuss religious problems and culture differences in their literature. The authors have captured these differences by their past experiences of friends and family. Both authors come from a diverse culture, but both face the same harsh society of the American culture and beliefs. The Author's both tell about situations in their short stories of being outcasts and coming from different racial backgrounds and trying to triumph over these obstacles. Angelou and Tan both have a very unique writing ability and style in their short stories.

The poems ‘Still I Rise’ and ‘Unknown Girl’ both explore the way women are expected to behave in specific societies. ‘Still I Rise’ focuses on Maya Angelou’s refusal to accept racism and to allow “them”, white oppressors, to push her down. ‘Unknown Girl’ focuses on Moniza Alvi’s want to be accepted in a society where she belongs, but can’t call her own.

Gloria Anzaldua’s short essay, Towards a New Consciousness, begins with the description of her mixed culture, a mestiza, and the conflicts she faces in being torn between being Mexican and Native American. Anzaldua expresses her struggle of her torn heritages by describing herself as being caught between two cultures and their values. Instead of being able to love and respect both cultures, Anzaldua feels as if we people feel the need to take up one side of our heritage and end up hating the other part. She paints an image as standing on an opposite side of a riverbank, yelling back and forth answers and questions showing that we eventually end up favoring one side and only getting pieces of the other

Alice Walker and Maya Angelou are two contemporary African-American writers. Although almost a generation apart in age, both women display a remarkable similarity in their lives. Each has written about her experiences growing up in the rural South, Ms. Walker through her essays and Ms. Angelou in her autobiographies. Though they share similar backgrounds, each has a unique style that gives the readers, the gift of their exquisite humanity, with all of its frailties and strengths, joys and sorrows.

Maya Angelou and Sherman Alexie detailed their lives as a person of color growing up in predominantly white America. When reflecting back on their lives, both authors used various techniques in order to effectively make an imprint on the reader of the trials and tribulations both authors had to go through and what they learned from the experience. By analyzing Sherman Alexie’s “Indian Education” and Maya Angelou’s “Champion of the World”, a stark contrast can be seen in how two authors can use structure and various other techniques to tell a story with a similar subject to a different effect compared to the other.

Maya Angelou and Henry Louis Gates had a similar childhood. Both faced numerous challenges during the early stages of their lives such as racial discrimination and financial insecurity among others. The similarity of their childhood experiences results to a coincidence in their nature and type of writing. The authors address same issues using their life experiences. However, Maya and Louis differ on some issues and experiences as well as their writing styles. However, although they vary in a variety of ways, Maya and Gates address similar topics.

This poem compares not only because it was written during the same time period but it also expresses the love that motivates these women to push through these difficult times. Barbara Kingsolver’s The Bean Trees, and Maya Angelou’s “Women

Tan’s “Fish Cheeks” and Angelou’s “Champion of the World” share a very similar narrative as both are from the author’s perspective and both authors are of ethnic background. Both authors had come from hardship to accept who they are beyond their race or background. They share similar stories of self discovery as they try to navigate a world where they feel like they don’t belong in. Tan explains how secluded and embarrassed she felt during the dinner as her family cooked up an unconventional Chinese dinner instead of the typical Christmas dinner. This is the same as how Angelou explains her excitement for the famous black boxer Joe Louis, to triumph as it would be a breakthrough for her people. Both of these cases address the notion of family,

In literature, tone is often described as the attitude of the story. It is the method used by the author to add personality or emotion. Without tone, even the best-rounded characters can easily come across as flat. Tone is not simply style, diction, or setting, but instead is the tool that holds all of these pieces together. In, “The Lottery”, author Shirley Jackson’s use of tone not only leads the reader down a familiar easy path to follow, but also sets the stage for the climactic change in events that leaves the reader’s emotions spiraling out of control.

Have you ever wondered why people use tone while writing ? Tone is a very strategic way to get the reader's attention. While reading, people can have a different opinion than you. De Vaca did not know that he would have to use tone or even write a report on all that happened in order to save his own life.

Tone is a literary device that is common in most works of writing. It is an attitude of a writer toward a subject or an audience. It is significant in that not only does it express the attitude of the author, but it also helps to quicken the pace of the plot. In the poem “Variations of the Word ‘“love”’,” Margaret Atwood wrote:

    Alice Walker and Maya Angelou are two contemporary African-American writers.  Although almost a generation apart in age, both women display a remarkable similarity in their lives.  Each has written about her experiences growing up in the rural South, Ms. Walker through her essays and Ms. Angelou in her autobiographies.  Though they share similar backgrounds, each has a unique style which gives to us, the readers, the gift of their exquisite humanity, with all of its frailties and strengths, joys and sorrows.

Fred Schepisi, director of The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith, and Maya Angelou, author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, present the themes of racism and cultural discrimination similarly, but their key characters battle for acceptance uniquely. Schepisi and Angelou both address racism against the protagonists, Jimmie who is Aboriginal and Maya who is African American. Similarly, cultural discrimination is discussed where Maya and Schepisi focus on how gender effects somebody’s actions. Both authors discuss acceptance uniquely, Schepisi focusing on how Jimmie cannot be accepted into white society because of his skin colour compared to Angelou’s biographical count of being raised in a segregated community surrounded predominantly by African Americans, and only had to fight for acceptance as a young woman once she moved to San Francisco. Both texts provide an unfiltered outlook of how racism effects both African Americans and Indigenous Australians. Although there are many similarities between the two texts one difference is the point of view the two texts portray.

In Silko’s “Lullaby”, the role of storytelling in her Native American culture seems to be a central theme and translates the oral tradition of storytelling into a written English essay. The narrator Ayah doesn’t tell her story to anyone in particular, but instead she reminiscences on a story that weaves her past memories and her present happenings through a series of associations, rather than in a set chronological order. In addition to the focus on the oral tradition of storytelling, Silko is concerned with the ways in which Native American traditions can be adapted to the contemporary circumstances of Native American life and the difference between her culture and the white culture. Her characters are often caught between a traditional and a modern way of life when it comes to nature, raising the issue of environmental racism throughout the story.