Amy Lowell

According to the short story “Two Kinds,” by Amy Tan, Mrs. Woo (Jing Mei’s mother) said that “you can be anything you wanted to be in America.” Mrs. Woo believes that her daughter Jing Mei can be anything in the United States as long as she puts her mind to do it, so she tries to help her daughter to discover her talent. The ideas of Mrs. Woo are to rule and control her little girl's life, and her Chinese culture view tends to make her children become obedient children rather than to let her children

Daughters Our native instinct as children is that we want to be our own unique independent person, no matter who gets in our way, not even our parents. Parents and children fight over what the children want to do in life all the time. “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan is a short story where a young girl’s feelings change over time with her mother. The daughter, Jing-mei, is being forced by her mother to become a prodigy. Jing-mei does not think she can become a prodigy, creating a conflict in the relationship

Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan offers some insight into the lives of Chinese immigrant mothers and their American-born daughters. Though the book provides the stories of four very different families, there are noticeable repetitions of the same themes and problems between them all. Tan shows recurring themes in all the families in order to show the similar struggles that all Chinese-American families, such as the one she grew up in, face. Amy Tan shows examples of finding inner strength in all families

In The Joy Luck Club, four Chinese women immigrated to San Francisco in hopes of a better life for both themselves and their children. The mother members of The Joy Luck Club wanted a greater variety of opportunities, and hoped to find them in America. In most immigration cases, people expect to find better living and working conditions in another populated country. And, usually, they do. In the article I chose based on immigration, a resident of the Rio Grande Valley named Adrian Guerrero said

The literary criticism, “Language as Barrier and Bridge in Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club” is written by Mohamed Samir, who is from Faculty of Philosophy department at the University of Vaasa. He enforces the point that despite that the mother’s have strong roots from China, their daughters through being raised in America, on the other hand, are disconnected. Hence, the daughters are yet to discover their racial identity, but through an honest effort made by their mothers they are guided towards uncovering

In this cultural context, Amy Tan follows the historical trend and shows how different Chinese and American cultures are, taking mother-daughter bond, husband-wife dyad and sisterhood as vehicles to present the cultural conflicts, concerting these problematic relationship at the end and telling us how possible it is to reunite these two cultures. However, the cultural reconciliation in the real sense is not as simple as the human relationship. It is at most the writer’ and the readers’ beautiful

discriminated in America. Language is a part of many cultures and daily life, for example in Amy Tan's "Mother Tongue", Tan says "I've heard other terms used, 'limited English,' for example. But they seem as bad, as if everything is limited, including people's perceptions of the limited English speaker." Language should not be a border where people today are still treated as "broken". To begin with, in Amy Tan's "Mother Tongue" (163-168), it displays that language has an effect on people's lives

Amy Tan grew up to become a socially powerful young lady. However, Amy experienced several hardships throughout life that shaped Amy’s present personality. Previously, living in the United States, Amy had a troublesome time fitting into the American Society. In fact, in an interview with Elaine Woo, Amy admittedly told, “I felt ashamed of being different and ashamed for feeling that way.” Ashamed for partaking of the family’s Chinese heritage, Amy as a young girl was determined to appear as American

In fact, June grew up in a small neighborhood, in which she didn’t not have as many opportunities as she has now in America. As the mother comes to America she is experiencing a new life with bigger and better things. Her intentions for making June a prodigy were to gain bragging rights respect among small Chinatown, just like her friend, Auntie Lindo, whose daughter was “Chinatown’s Littlest Chinese Chess Champion. “ The mother just wanted June to have a bright and better future for her and to

Is your culture influencing your perspective on the world?Are culture can influence us in our everyday choices and everyday way of doing certain activities or things. It is clear when reading; "Two ways to belong in America","Two kinds", and "An Indian father's plea"that culture impacts are actions and ways we see the world. Culture can affect the way you see the world by the way you were raised and the way your parents taught you to see the world. For example in “The Indians father