Amy Johnson

would later on welcome me to witness her world of resilience. Her name was Amy, and throughout her journey through eighth grade, she faced a lot of adversity with peers around her. No matter how difficult the obstacle was, she had always pushed through with all her effort. This narrative will introduce the resilience that Amy portrayed throughout her first year of school in America. Being a transfer student from China, Amy lacked efficiency with English, but since I was a fluent speaker with Chinese

In two of our previous essays the readers are exposed to three minor animal characters that help to build the characterization of the protagonists in the essays. In “The Fourth State of Matter,” the collie dog and squirrels help to convey the kind of person JoAnn Beard is. Similarly, in “Repeat After Me,” Henry the parrot, helps to build on who Lisa Sedaris is as well as to create a reflection of himself. With these animals as support for the protagonists, they help develop certain aspects of the

In the essay, “Mother Tongue”, Amy Tan lays out examples of noticing the different Englishes in her life and how she incorporates them into her writing. She also breaks down the different versions of English that have taken root in her life. Tan notes that she includes all the Englishes of her life in her book, The Joy Luck Club. Tan, the daughter of immigrants, learned to navigate between the “perfect” English of her professional life and the “broken” English of her youth. The author’s main claim

Critics all around the globe argue that “Let It Snow” is an amazing reflection piece about a past experience; however, this story has countless characteristics that may not be intriguing to multiple readers. This story takes a radiant memory and tells of the dismal behind it all. The piece “Let It Snow” by David Sedaris is not a superb reflection piece, because this reflection piece is heartbreaking, morbid, and possessed immensely slight tone.     “School was canceled and two days later we got lucky

“The Friendships That Hold Us Safely in Their Keep” by Sara Lukinson and the novel “The Joy Luck Club” by Amy Tan, many similarities and differences can be found pertaining to family. In many circumstances, friends become your family especially if they have stayed by your side. This can be said for both the novel and the article because they characterize friends as family. In the book, Amy wrote, "Auntie, Uncle," I say, repeatedly, nodding to each person there. I have always called these old family

. . respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.”- June Jordan. As life goes on I am learning that we do not always get what we want. In my English class, we read two passages; one was a novel called Two Kinds by Amy Tan and the other was a poem called “ Legal Alien “ by Pat Mora. The text Two Kinds is about the conflict between a mother and daughter; her mother just wants her daughter to triumph in the world, while her daughter wants to just be herself. The other

Spanning and providing passage over rivers, chasms, and roads, bridges are much more than just structures.They can be the attempt to save something precious into what could turn out as divorce. Marie Arana,  a distinguished author for writing “Two Worlds, One Childhood”, shares how she was the link between her two obverse parents, whose marriage was almost doomed from the beginning. Marie even takes note of when she notices her reflection through a little girl, and claims that every marriage has

In Amy Tan's novel, The Joy Luck Club talks about the many mother-daughter relationships between the people in the story, relationships between spouses, their friends, and even their enemies. These relationships ,in the largest probability,are different aspects of the relationship that Amy Tan had with her mother, and other parts are just things that she made up. Therefore, Amy Tan believes that the effects of cultures and tradition between a family can cause burdens and can cause the whole family

Many people have learned everything they know from other generations. Most likely your parents but you can still learn from people much older or younger than you. You might have taught something to another generation too. This is all possible since on an everyday basis most people interact with other. You can learn about or from other generations even with life because you can learn assertiveness, you can learn acceptance, and you can learn compassion. You can still learn from your people

For this week’s discussion, I choose to write on “A Pair of Tickets” by Amy Tan, because I felt connected and drawn to the emotion’s expressed throughout. I was sad to learn of the tragic story of Tan’s mother and older twin sisters. I was relieved to know of the reunion they had, and how this trip helped Tan embrace her ethnicity by accepting her Chinese identity. On her journey to meet her lost older sisters, the setting changes throughout the story aiding in the transformation of June May to Jing-mei