Amy Johnson

In the short story, "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan, a Chinese mother and daughter are at odds with each other. The mother pushes her daughter to become a prodigy, while the daughter (like most children with immigrant parents) seeks to find herself in a world that demands her Americanization. This is the theme of the story, conflicting values. In a society that values individuality, the daughter sought to be an individual, while her mother demanded she do what was suggested. This is a conflict within

Theme of Abandonment in Kitchen God's Wife and Joy Luck Club      One of the themes included in both The Kitchen God's Wife and The Joy Luck Club is that of abandonment. In The Kitchen God's Wife, the character of Winnie Louie is abandoned by her mother when she was a young child. In The Joy Luck Club, Suyuan Woo has to abandon her twin daughters on the road as she is escaping war-torn China.   In The Joy Luck Club, Suyuan Woo is forced to abandon her twin daughters at the side of the

The Bonds of a Language Amy Tan is the author of several novels including The Joy Luck Club and The Kitchen God’s Wife. She was born in the United States to parents who immigrated to California from China (Gruber 35). In her article entitled “Mother Tongue”, Tan focuses on the English shared between her mother and herself versus the English that she speaks with everyone else, and how it has affected her outlook on language. Through her examples, she presents to the audience the

Amy Tan's “The Joy Luck Club” The “Joy Luck Club,” by Amy Tan, is a collection of short stories about the relationships between Chinese born mothers and their American born daughters. The story called “Four Directions” is about a woman named Waverly Jong. The story is about Waverly trying to tell her mother that she is getting married to a American man named Richard. Waverly was a chess champion as while she was a young girl and she remembers the strategy that she used in her matches, and in

this: “I don’t really know. It’s something we started before we got married. And for some reason we never stopped.” (Tan 177) It is clear from the tone of the discussion that the idea hurts Lena inside, especially since she makes less than Harold. Amy Tan wrote it this way so that the reader would pity Lean and see Harold as a money grubbing bastard.      Rich is the second example of a weak male character in The Joy Luck Club, and his main flaw is gross ignorance. His new

Strong Women in The Joy Luck Club and The Kitchen God's Wife        One of the common themes in both The Joy Luck Club and The Kitchen God's Wife is strong women. All the women in both generations in each book gain strength through different experiences. These experiences range from a war-ravaged China to the modern day stresses of womanhood. Though different experiences have shaped each woman, they are all tied together by the common thread of strength.   The Joy Luck Club portrays

directed by Amy Heckerling, deviates drastically from the norm, as the film is not a period piece. While Emma is set in the early nineteenth century in the country village of Highbury, sixteen miles out of London, England, Clueless is set in Bronson Alcott High School almost two hundred years later, in the late twentieth century. Despite the significantly different geographical and historical setting and the diverse social values, lifestyles, and issues than those depicted in Emma, Amy Heckerling’s

Ernesto Galarza's Barrio Boy and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club In both pieces of literature; "Barrio Boy," by Ernesto Galarza and "The Joy Luck Club," by Amy Tan; the authors portray families and their struggle with language barriers, even within their own families, adapting to the customs and routines of the North American society, and how the younger family members succeeded in school, work, and relationships. In Amy Tan’s book "The Joy Luck Club," the theme of the "American Dream," which

America for immigrants is a land where everybody can become somebody. In Two Kinds, from an excerpt the novel, The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan, Jing-mei’s mother believed that her daughter could become anyone that she wanted. Jing-mei only wanted to become herself. Jing-mei’s mother forced Jing-mei to become a prodigy. At first Jing-mei was excited to become a prodigy, however, as time went on Jing-mei started to hate trying to become a prodigy. It never stopped her mother from trying to make Jing-mei

In this passage from “Waiting between the Trees” from The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan illustrates how mothers sometimes lose the ability to keep their child safe due to lack of communication. As shown in the passage, the mother struggles to communicate her emotions and feelings to her daughter due to the chasm between them, meanwhile illustrating the repetition of regret of miscommunication. The passage illustrates the great chasm that has occurred Ying-Ying and her daughter as she struggles to communicate