Amy Grant

In an autobiographical story, “Journey by Inner Light,” the author Meeta Kaur shares her audiences her rebellion against her cultures of Sikhism. With her life feeling lost, Kaur began feeling dissatisfied and decided to cut her hair against her cultural belief in order to fit the young American lifestyle. She felt like she had lost her self-identity and her inner connections to her principles. As Kaur comes back home to her family, a mixed feelings of guilt and shame filled her when her mother saw

Have you ever played a game of mahjong? Mahjong is a solitaire matching game which used mahjong tiles. This game brings people together to create and reminisce memories while feasting on Chinese delicacies. In The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan reinforces the mothers’ bonds through meeting up to play mahjong in their club. They try to influence their daughters to take part in this Chinese tradition, but the girls have different views. They try to become part of an American society, and look back at their

The new Disney film titled “Queen of Katwe” tells the story of Ugandan female chess champion Phionaa Mutesi and her journey from survival to success. Mutesi , who is played by Lupita Nyong'o in the movie, was raised alone by her mother after her father died of AIDS. Among her favorite scenes in “Queen of Katwe” are her conversations with her coach when she asked to stay temporarily with him and his wife, and when she challenges his teachings, Christianity Today details. Mutesi’s coach Robert Katende

In the 1930 's, the roles of men and women varied greatly. From the workplace to the home, the expectancies were different. Their behaviors were night and day. The views of both genders were also very different. Life in the 1930s Most of the women who did have jobs were in working in factories or other low paying jobs. They also had to get a full education just to be equal with a man who only graduated from elementary school. Women could do the same job as a man and work just as hard but would

Characterization is a widely-used literary tool in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club. Specifically, each mother and daughter is a round character that undergoes change throughout the novel. Characterization is important in the novel because it directly supports the central theme of the mother-daughter relationship, which was relevant in Tan’s life. Tan grew up with an immigrant mother, and Tan expresses the difficulties in communication and culture in the stories in her book. All mothers in the book are

Communication is one of the most vital aspect of everyone’s life and that is often hinted at in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club. Throughout the book, we encounter mother-daughter relationships that are ultimately impacted due to linguistic roadblocks. The mothers are more proficient in Chinese, sometimes struggling to have their daughters completely understand their dialect. This, in turn, poses as a barrier in regards to conserving a cultural connection between the mother and daughter. Delving into

“Two Kinds” by Amy Tan is a story that shows a battle that starts with the narrator and her mother, for control over the narrator’s life. Her mother wanted her to become a prodigy, but she wanted to be anything other than that. So, throughout the short story “Two Kinds” she’s determined to not quit the fight. “Two Kinds” is filled with different forms of conflict which allows for the narrator to realize that her mother’s crazy antics were to help her find what she was good at. Which leads to the

crying, she glances down the hall and shrieks. A few moments later. Pat helps Ashley up. She sprints to Morris. His face is pale white, gasping for air. PAT HELP! SOMEONE HELP ME! Pat frantically looks around. Ashley cries in the b.g. INT. HOSPITAL BEDROOM - NIGHT Boer turns Morris’s respirator up. PAT Thank you for everything you did, we’re very grateful. BOER You’re welcome. Pat holds Ashley in her arms. PAT Come on little one, let’s go back to our hotel before you do any more damage

central messages are to my life. Likewise, I can readily appreciate a story and its contents when I can mature as a reader alongside the development of the story’s main characters, the protagonist especially. For this reason, I was enthralled with Amy Tan’s ‘The Joy Luck Club’ and Herman Melville’s ‘Bartleby, the Scrivener,’ as I resonated well with its main characters; just as the characters gradually developed in their respective stories, I found that I, too, developed by applying the story 's

The Joy Luck Club follows the story of 4 mother and daughter pairs: Suyuan Woo and Jing-mei Woo, An-mei Hsu and Rose Hsu Jordan, Lindo Jong and Waverly Jong, and Ying-ying St. Clair and Lena St. Clair. In the beginning, Jing-mei Woo’s mother has died, so Jing-mei takes her place at the Joy Luck Club’s meetings. She learns that her sisters are in China and were tracked down by her mom right before she died. Jing-mei is given money to go to China to tell them about their mother, which was her mother’s