Amy Grant

Elizabeth Wong is a Chinese American playwright that wrote “The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl” originally published in the Los Angeles Times in 1990. In her short story, she describes her resentment of her Chinese roots and her protest against her parents that want her to learn and appreciate her heritage and Chinese culture. Her short story exposes the pressure that immigrant children place on themselves to fit into the dominant culture. The proposed solutions to fixing this problem is thinking

“A mother’s love never dies, not even if she doesn’t know whether her kids are alive.” The Joy Luck Club, written by Amy Tan, is an extraordinary book. Tan has been successful to show the relationship between mothers and daughters, the problems faced by the migrants, values and life style of Chinese culture in elegant way. Nevertheless, I think the writer has only focused on the dark side of life , only pain, sacrifices, hardships and conflicts have been shown. At first, my view for all the mothers

Though it does not come up in everyday thought, cultural identity is an idea that all humans possess. Abridged, cultural identity can be simply explained as the sharing of a similar culture by people of various ethnicities. However, cultural identity is more complex than that, defined by an individual’s values, beliefs, and ideas of moral behavior influenced by their culture. Furthermore, cultural identity is ever changing from individual to individual. This means that although two individuals may

The novel Joy Luck Club is set in San Francisco around Chinese American immigrant families. The novel is composed of four sections containing separate narratives interweaving stories to demonstrating the conflict Chinese immigrant mother are having raising daughters in America. The focus of the novel is cultural translation and the problems immigrants face with their identity. Several themes in the novel that are the main focus, theses themes are mother daughter relationships, tradition, language

The novel The Joy Luck Club(1989) which written by Amy Tan has got a big success at that time, in the novel, it has vividly shown the difficult relationship between mothers and daughters and the life of the immigrant families. After that, the novel The Joy Luck Club has been remade the same name movie and released in 1993, which also got big succeed in this movie version. In comparison research on an individual’s preference, more audiences will prefer the movie version, because the tone, background

The article written by Maria Liu is one about how she defines her American Chinese heritage and how she relates to her Chinese cousins. In the article Liu talks about an experience she had while attending college. She had previously seen a Chinese boy in many of her other classes and she saw he never really interacted with anyone. She confronted him and started a conversation with him which led to him telling her she is the worst kind of Chinese. She did not take offense, instead she said she could

The culture and setting of LuLing and Precious Auntie’s lives influenced the way they got treated and how they developed conservative views. Precious Auntie grew up in China during the time when families had a hierarchy. For example, when LuLing’s “mother” talked about Precious Auntie she said, “It’s because of old Granny that the lunatic nursemaid has stayed all these years”( Tan 209). LuLing’s mother could not do anything in the family without the grandmother's say. LuLing’s family had a solid

In 2014, a young North Korean defector named Yeonmi Park spoke about her experiences fleeing the country at the One Young World Summit. She shared that a Chinese man had attempted to rape her as she and her mother crossed the border, and that her mother had taken the place of thirteen-year-old Park to protect her. She also recounted a North Korean saying, “Women are weak, but mothers are strong,” as she spoke of her mother’s bravery (Park, 2014). Many mothers will go to far lengths to protect

Different races, ages, and cultures determine the way people interrupt concepts. In The Joy Luck Club, written by Amy Tan, shows the cultures an interpretations of the mothers and daughters. Asian mothers and Asian-American daughters understand and see themes and concepts in distinct ways. Asian mothers and Asian-American daughters were raised in different cultures to diverse families with distinct ideas. When the mothers try to make their daughters understand some cultural concept, it is either

Jing-mei originally believed that in order to “be Chinese” one must live in China and abide by the stereotype of Chinese people; after her visit to China, she finds that “being Chinese” is accepting the Chinese DNA in her blood and understanding the culture. In the beginning of A Pair of Tickets, Jing-mei does not feel Chinese. She repeatedly denies being Chinese saying, “… and all of my Caucasian friends agreed: I was about as Chinese as they were” (Norton 179). She had never experienced the culture