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Conflicting Cultures in Gish Jen's Mona in the Promised Land Novels that illustrate a confrontation between disparate cultures provide particularly straightforward insights into basic human behavior. Characters confronted with a cultural conflict must explore basic human commonalities to breach the gap between the cultures. In doing so, one diminishes the differences between her culture and the unknown culture, ultimately bringing her closer to

between parents and children. However, as time goes on and generations drift apart, different methods of behavior develop. The tensions between parent and child define the conflict in Amy Tan’s Two Kinds, Anzia Yezierska’s Children of Loneliness, and Gish Jen’s Who’s Irish. These conflicts explore the cultural gap between the two--the way they act differently, their behavioral differences, and their different thought processes are all conflicts found in the short stories. Although there is always love

In the story The White Umbrella by Gish Jen, the narrator throws the white umbrella into the sewer. Even though she wanted the white umbrella it had been a burden for her. It had caused too much damage. The narrator throws the umbrella into the sewer because it was the cause of the accident.She did not want to be haunted by the regretful moment that the white umbrella would remind her of. When Mona says "there is something under her skirt", the narrator's mother rolls the car slowly to a stop. Which

of nowhere. “You’re Chinese. You’re Chinese!” His face is already white and frowning with suffering. It does not matter that his “skin is fair, and his features mixed, people see his straight black hair and ‘know’ who he is.” In An Ethnic Trump, Gish Jen, a Chinese mother, describes her son Luke, a half Chinese half Irish boy, and his experiences as he encounters bullies as a biracial child. Why does he, one of millions of biracial or mixed race population, end up with the same racism as other minorities

Modern and contemporary American writers, especially those in the African American, Asian American, Latino American, and Native American minority groups, have reflected in their fiction and poetry, America’s ongoing struggle to narrow the gap between the idealism and reality of the principles of equality stated in the Declaration of Independence by depicting the racial and cultural struggles - social, legal, economic - members of the minority groups endure, wherein the theme of injustice calls upon

Mona Chang has been flipped and had her heart broken. The story “What Means Switch” is about the love life of a young woman named Mona Chang. She lives a very chaotic love life being an 8th grader who is hungry for attention. During the duration of Gish Jen’s story, “What Means Switch,” Mona Chang does not change until the end of the story. Mona begins as a vain 8th grader and ends the story being a high school student that wants to be away from popularity and fame. By using Mona’s word choice and

A focus on differences in Western and Confucian value may have variations in values within cultures and the changes of Chinese American women. This essay compared Xuxi’s novel That man in our lives and Typical American by Gish Jen. Take a closer look to observe the variation in Confucian value among Chinese American woman. How they challenge to their Confucian values after they received American consumer culture. When the Industrial Revolution made mass consumption possible in the US, consumerism

Ethnic Differences Across Generations      Gish Jen’s “Who’s Irish?” explores a Chinese grandmother’s thoughts and beliefs about her ethnically integrated family. The grandmother tells the story as though she is looking back on past events and thinking about how they have affected her present life. As her tale begins, she identifies her granddaughter, Sophie, as a wild three-year-old (161). Perhaps the grandmother associates with Sophie’s strong will, because she reveals

diggers can find gold, and a place where success won’t be hard any more. Gish Jen, as a newish American, wrote “coming into the country” and states that immigrants face plenty of difficulties to make their freedom in theory turn into freedom in practice. Jen hopes that immigrants can fit into America society, which can make

ABOUT LAN SAMANTHA CHANG Lan Samantha Chang 's fiction has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Story, and The Best American Short Stories. A graduate of Yale University and the University of Iowa, she divides her time between Northern California and Princeton, New Jersey.   AN INTERVIEW WITH LAN SAMANTHA CHANG Many of the families in Hunger have attempted to sever themselves from the past in order to build a future. Was this how your parents coped with starting over in America? What parts of Chinese