What Is The Difference Between America And Amy Tan's Story

Maya Angelou has wrote a quite a meaningful story about her grandmother Annie Johnson about her life and having a turning point and everything changed. It all starts by having a huge conflict about splitting her marriage in 1903 and ended she later became fully aware on what she put herself into. There for Annie Johnson and African-American women has to work her hardest in order to help her two small boys and make harder choices in life. According to the text on paragraph seven it states “Although business was slow, those first days Annie was determined. She balanced her appearances between the two hours of activity.” This explains how Annie was dealing with some conflits. There are more conflicts but a successful ending into the next story “Rikki-Tikki-Tavi”.

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

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

Amy Tan had many personal experiences in her story. For example, when Amy Tan was living in Northern California, her mother had very high expectations on her. Her mother wanted her to be with the American society and be the best she could be. Amy Tan had to get a haircut very short to the way other famous children were acting in the United States. Amy’s mother was the one who encouraged this. With that, in the story “Two Kinds,” the young girl named Jing-mei live in a part of California and she had to get a very short haircut. Jing-mei’s mother wanted her daughter to look and act the same way Shirley Temple did. Within both of the girls lives, they each had to act like an already famous person exactly to please their mothers.

Tan shows that she is embarrassed in her family for their lacking of proper American manners. Although at the time she felt ashamed, the words spoken by her mother, “Inside you must always be Chinese. You must be proud you are different. Your only shame is to have shame” became better understood later in life. In Amy Tan's work, the strong use of description of both the event that are occurring and Amy’s feelings about them, draws the reader in and makes them feel as if they are part of the action. Tan's Chinese-American culture and life stories are imprinted in her writing which gives the reader an opportunity to gain knowledge about the way of life in her family, friends, and even the Chinese culture. Tan's main purpose of writing is to inform and educate people about growing up as a minority in the American society.

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.

Amy Tan, born February 19, 1952, was an American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships and the Chinese-American experience. As a child Amy Tan believed her life was duller than most. She read to escape. Her parents wanted her to be a doctor or a concert pianist, however, she secretly dreamed of becoming an artist. She began writing fiction when she was thirty-three.

Amy Tan was born in 1952, in Oakland, California to Chinese immigrants John and Daisy Tan. Her family eventually settled in Santa Clara. When Tan was in her early teens, her father and one of her brothers died of brain tumors within months of each other. During this period Tan learned that her mother had been married before, to an abusive husband in China. After divorcing him, her mother fled China during the Communist takeover, leaving three daughters behind who she would not see again for nearly forty years.

Today I will be comparing the experiences between two young people growing up in Australia. The two stories are "The Left Hander" by Oodgeroo Noonuccal and "Destiny" by Shalini Akhil. One is about a girl who wants to become Wonder Women but she has to alternate it because she is indian (Destiny) and the other is about a girl who always used her left hand but when she was noticed to use it, she was punished(The Left Hander) . Both authors focus on two memoirs Clash of Culture and Belonging v isolation, However these have different perspectives, "The Left Hander's" Perspective is negative whereas 'Destiny' has a positive perspective. "The Left Hander's" setting is during school, the girl was just sewing in the classroom and after the teacher saw she was punished. "Destiny's" setting is at home with the persons grandma talking about an alternate way of being wonder women. Both texts

In the Mid 1900’s, discrimination had overpowered minorities. In Maya Angelou's “Graduation and Audre Lorde’s “Fourth of July, both authors have one specific difference is their contrast in ethnicity. Angelou is a black south girl and Lorde is the daughter of two caribbean immigrants living in New York City. However both authors have similarities as well. Ïor instance both are eighth graders when they first encounter discrimination, Angelou is brought to reality during her graduation while Lorde experience reality to her family trip to Washington DC. They also due to this have a similar tone of reaction; anger. Both authors rage on about how unfair it is to be a minority.

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,

Tan’s “Fish Cheeks” and Angelou’s “Champion of the World” both show a personal narrative dealing with young girls of a minority living in an unwelcoming society.

The common theme is the racism that Maya and her family experience throughout the book. As the narrative is set in 1969 when racial prejudice against African Americans was still prevalent. Through Maya’s eyes, whiteness is the preferred skin color but she cannot hide the hate and disgust of the white people, who degrade and belittle her. The racism is especially present due to their setting, which is in the south. One might think that moving to San Francisco would end the racial divide, but that is not the case. In the south, they are divided by a very literal border, and although blacks and white work side by side in San Francisco, their prejudice was apparent; “San Franciscans would have sworn on the Golden Gate Bridge that racism was missing from the heart of their air-conditioned city. But they would have been sadly mistaken” (Angelou).

Through the use of characterization and conflict, the two young adult protagonists Cindy and Amy demonstrate a shared theme between the two texts: A strong sense of self is necessary when under pressure from the expectation of the others. Amy is critical of her own Chinese culture and traditions. When Amy found out that the minister family is visiting her she gets worried “what would he think of our noise Chinese relatives who lacked proper American manners (1, 2). This shows she is struggling with herself. She is scared that their Chinese culture will embarrass her in front of their American guests. She felt bad to her own culture background and wanted to disappear and be more American. On the other hand Cindy is also struggling with her self-awareness

In the story “Two kinds ”, the author said “America was where all my mother’s hopes lay. She had come here in 1949 after losing everything in China : her family......get better” form this part of story, we can see that Amy’s mom put all her hope on her daughter in USA, because she lose all the things in China, USA is her new home. On the other hand , in the story “Tiger Mom”, “ She is from China and used to living Philippines......” So, from this part of story, we can see that Amy Chua Has different culture back ground, so the way that she teach her daughter is diffierent. Therefore , the two moms is different in Culture background and children teaching