The Joy Luck Club By Amy Tan
Throughout generations, cultural traditions have been passed down, alongside these traditions came language. The language of ancestors which soon began to be molded by the tongue of newer generations. Though language is an everlasting changing part of the world, it is a representation of one’s identity, not only in a cultural way but from an environmental standpoint as well. With newer generations, comes newer forms of languages, although these generation's’ way of speaking has came from elsewhere there is a kind of shame that comes from this. There has been so much change that it has made the past seem inadequate to this modern worlds language. Authors Ngugi Wa Thiong’O, Gene Luen Yang, Amy Tan, and Marjorie Agosin have all shared similar
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When a person is raised differently than another it is very likely that they will have some opinions that clash. In Amy Tan’s book “The Joy Luck Club” she shares a series of stories told from the perspectives of different mothers and daughters where the daughters are somewhat ashamed of their parents “broken english”. In one of her essays she shares the different englishes that have been a part of her life and how her parent’s inability to speak english had a big effect on her as she grew up in California. She writes these two works to reveal to the audience how when growing up differently than past generations, one is exposed to a different lifestyle and is kind of swayed to live that way. This life style changes your culture and most of all, your language. As a part of being a new generation there is a certain “expectation” to “fit” in with what is around you and to those who are around you. That is why so much changes when a new generation is raised in a different place, but that is not the only variable in play. Another would be time, time changes so much more than people realize, each generation creates this whole new era that is influenced by the past. Though it is similar to the past, it grows away from it and sprouts into anew later to deny it's
When a person is raised differently than another it is very likely that they will have some opinions that clash. In Amy Tan’s book “The Joy Luck Club” she shares a series of stories told from the perspectives of different mothers and daughters where the daughters are somewhat ashamed of their parents “broken english”. In one of her essays she shares the different englishes that have been a part of her life and how her parent’s inability to speak english had a big effect on her as she grew up in California. She writes these two works to reveal to the audience how when growing up differently than past generations, one is exposed to a different lifestyle and is kind of swayed to live that way. This life style changes your culture and most of all, your language. As a part of being a new generation there is a certain “expectation” to “fit” in with what is around you and to those who are around you. That is why so much changes when a new generation is raised in a different place, but that is not the only variable in play. Another would be time, time changes so much more than people realize, each generation creates this whole new era that is influenced by the past. Though it is similar to the past, it grows away from it and sprouts into anew later to deny it's