Text In The Bonesetter's Daughter By Amy Tan

Overall, Amy Tan does a great job using rhetorical devices to reveal her ideas. Through the use of rhetorical questions, similes, and parallelism, she established her idea and leaves a powerful message with her audience. Although the women in the book struggled, with each women who breaks away from low expectations, they prove that they are to be taken seriously. An-Mei may have lived a life with much pain, but she would have wished that one day the ladder of pain would end leaving women at the top having health and

Going through life, we are told again and again and again that one person can make a real and impactful difference. Just one act can spark a change in the world more than you would ever possibly know. We are told that it doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from, or what your experience is in this world. One action, large or small, has the ability to snowball into something truly amazing. All of that is great and all, and that is how some people truly view the world that we live in. However, there are some people who have a much different point of view. These people would argue that the world that we live in is a terrible and threatening place; it’s not difficult to see their point on that topic. This world has too many terrorist

In this passage from Salvage The Bones, Jesmyn Ward shows how Esch, the main character and narrator of the novel, lost her virginity at a young age. The words that the author uses shows how Esch has started to express her rebellious side but also shows that she still feels hesitant about what she was doing. Even at only twelve years of age, Esch is shown as a girl who’s body has started to change and she starts to become a woman. Jesmyne Ward uses this passage from Salvage The Bones to show that Esch is starting to rebel against authority and even her friend Skeetah, that her body has started to change and she has starting to become a woman, and that sex was as easy as swimming for her when she started having it at an early age.

Thinking about all the stuff she wants to accomplish the next day, she thought about: death, which she feels is near, her dead husband John, her children and about Hapsy, her dead last-born child. There is a painful memory that she can’t separate from hell, causing her to be depressed, the memory of being jilted. She was stood up at her own wedding by George. “For sixty years she had prayed against remembering him and against losing her soul in the deep pit of hell”. (Porter, 1930) This is a memory she never let go and dominates her thoughts as she nears death, getting her to confuse the timeline of her experiences in life and hallucinate. Also, in a moment she imagines seeing Hapsy “standing with a baby on her arm.” (Porter,1930). As the figure of Hapsy disappears from her, she decides that she wanted to see George and tell him that she has forgotten him and now has a rich life. She wants him to know that she has everything he took from her. Suddenly, she thought she was in labor and sends John to get the doctor. In some way, she believes that after she gives birth to Hapsy, she will gain again some of her strength. At the end, still thinking about George and waiting for Hapsy, she asks God for a sign and doesn't get one, she feels that now God has jilted her and

Lena St. Clair’s mother always looked out for her by reminding her: “‘You must not walk in any other direction but to school and back home,’… ‘A man can grab you off the streets, sell you to someone else, make you have a baby. Then you’ll kill the baby. And when they find this baby in a garbage can, then what can be done? You’ll go to jail, die there’” (106). The strong diction expresses the depth of Ying-ying’s fear for her daughter’s wellbeing. She uses the words “terrible”, “kill”, and “die” which connote fear and pain. The purpose is to accentuate how ridiculous the precautions women have to take just to feel safe are. The importance of these safety measures is shown and made understandable. Tan uses a hyperbole saying that Lena will kill her child and end up dying in prison. The purpose of amplifying the potential outcome is to convey how crucial it is that Lena knows how to stay safe which helps to understand that the vitality of women having these safety regulations. Waverly argues with her mother about her fiancé and attempts to understand her mother’s resentment towards him. Waverly realizes her mother’s fear saying, “…I knew what lay on the other side: Her side attacks. Her secret weapons. Her uncanny ability to find my weakest spots. But in the brief instant that I had peered over the barriers I could finally see what was really there: an old woman, a wok for her armor, a

Natalie Goldberg in “Writing Down the Bones,” compares running to writing, “like running, the more you do it, the better you get at it. Some days you don’t want to run and you resist every step.” I believe majority student hate writing papers as much as professors grading them. They are countless reason why so many student struggle with writing. Majority of the time it’s not fun or interesting, you can feel insecurity or just can’t figures out how to compose you thought into words on paper. As the book says, “don’t try to control it. Stay present with whatever comes up, and keep your hand moving.”

Brom Bones, Katrina's husband was out of town for a leg surgery after falling off his horse riding it to church. Katrina had invited Ichabod to come over and hangout with Katrina. She made Ichabod ham and mashed potatoes. Brom was not aware of this and would be upset about this situation. Ichabod and Katrina were having a good time eating and drinking while watching movies.

Reading How to Read Literature like a Professor and The Bonesetter’s Daughter is an enlightening experience. The reader becomes aware of a literary world full of unusual symbolisms and connections. An unskilled reader would assume that Amy Tan’s novel: The Bonesetter’s Daughter, is just another novel written solely for entertainment purposes. Once a reader learns to use the skills, and employs How to Read Literature like a Professor as a guide and form of measurement of a novels value. Amy Tan’s novel is elevated to a higher literary level that is beyond merely a story and instead skillfully passes on history and wisdom that only a professor, or someone that reads literature like a professor, would detect.

Even though it may appear as Mattie Michaels, Jane Conrad, and the mother of Connie are three distinct women, it is evident upon analyzing their tragedies that these women are more similar than previously thought. They all experienced a call to action upon losing a family member. In the drastic change of environment, or what they were accustomed to, these females became hesitant and were engulfed with shock. Michaels “…stood for a moment… looking at the space where the car [should have been] and then at the unlit windows” when she discovered she lost her son, while Conrad had her world frozen and lost her ability to “…calculate the interval before the front doorbell [would] ring” to validate her husband’s death (Naylor 53; Wolfe 4). Similarly,

The novel The Bonesetter’s Daughter contains the accounts of three individuals, Ruth, LuLing, and Precious Auntie. The story begins with a day in life of Ruth Young and her partner Art. When the audience proceeds to read the rest of chapter one, an extremely noticeable aspect of Ruth’s life could be summarized: Ruth lives a busy and almost meaningless life as she goes on and on about every detail and complains about each one. Much of this negative energy in her life is related to her mother, LuLing, a Chinese women who even though we don't know a lot about at this point, still a toxic personality could be sensed. The author Amy Tan dedicated the opening scene to portray the main character as an individual who's hungry for the answer to the

We also learned that she is even locked upstairs by a gate at the top of the stairs while her husband leaves to go to work for hours, so Charlotte must simply sit and look out of her window, slowly driving herself insane. Just like any average person would behave while in her position, she starts to exhibit actions and behaviors of a mentally insane person. Charlotte’s actions only become more strange the longer she is isolated and even when her sister-in-law, Jennie, moves into the house with her it does not help her condition. Jennie is only trying to help; however, in her state Charlotte does not know this and suspects that Jennie is plotting to send her away and starts spying on Jennie from the corners of rooms and such. Her husband forthright threatens to send Charlotte to the very same doctor, of whom she has heard countless horror stories about, she believes Jennie does; in turn, Charlotte attempts to act normally out of fear of her own

What should a person look for when searching for their identity? A crucial component of a person’s identity is shaped by their relationships with others, particularly the one with their mother. In Amy Tan’s The Bonesetter’s Daughter, there are two main mother-daughter relationships that play integral roles in the novel. The novel consists of three generations of women, and their relationships with one another significantly impact who all three are and become.

From an outsider’s perspective, Earth may seem like the exact opposite utopia at the moment. The daily negative television broadcasts, newspaper articles, and online posts about global issues makes it seem like world peace is the most unreachable entity there is. These harsh realities make parenting one of the toughest jobs on the planet, as they must figure out a way to tell their children that the world is not filled with rainbows and happiness. Maggie Smith breaks down the struggles to present the cruel world to the younger generation in her poem “Good Bones”. Smith uses the repetition of the phrase “I keep this from my children” to outline the horrors across the globe, yet disperse knowledge and hope to the kids who will soon hold the

She explains how they felt after the death of charlotte. For example, she says, “We tried to resuscitate her for over an hour. It’s the worse thin I’ve ever done. I actually felt sick” (Paragraph 7). This is how one of the doctors felt after the death of this baby.

. .(The woman screamed) Gone! All gone! Why don’t God kill me?" Linda explains that things like this happen daily, even hourly. This is only a small piece of the torture it was to be a woman in slavery. Linda’s master often made perverted comments to her in which she expressed as to filthy to tell. He began to fill her mind with awful thoughts and words. He often slapped Linda and kicked her around. He was constantly threatening her and her life explaining that he would never sell her and that she would be in their damily as long as he had an heir. When Linda became pregnant with the son of a white man, he became very angry and he constantly reminded her that her baby was to be his property, like a piece of land to be bought. When she had the boy she named Benjamin, he was premature and she became very ill. She refused to let anyone send for a doctor, because the only doctor that could treat her was Dr. Flint. Finally when they thought she would die they sent for her master. He treated her and she refused him as much as possible, but she lived and so did her little Benny, although sometimes she wished he would’ve died. Almost three years later she had a daughter who she called Ellen which angered him even more and when Benny began to run to cling to his mother when he was striking her, Dr. Flint knocked the child all the way across the room nearly killing him.