the quote of Haim Ginott‚ the parents often feel unable to control their younger generation‚ and that is caused by a generation gap‚ which is normally refer to a time and space distance. But Amy Tan‚ a Chinese American author illustrates the generation gap in a different way. In her novel‚ The Joy Luck Club‚ Amy Tan described the generation gap between four-immigrant American Chinese mother and their American born daughter‚ which is cause by the bi-culture difference‚ lack of communication and the
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determines how one identifies himself/herself and how others identify certain groups of people‚ but what happens whenever a certain group’s language doesn’t meet the “standards” of the usual American way of using language? Many problems arise. The authors‚ Amy Tan‚ who wrote “Mother Tongue”‚ Gloria Anzaldua‚ who wrote “How to Tame a Wild tongue”‚ and David Sedaris‚ who wrote “Me talk pretty one day”‚ all support a common argument that shows the linkage of identity and language. Because language is both part
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Buy’s “Asking Amy”. This commercial stars Amy Poehler a well-known actress‚ comedienne‚ producer and writer. She’s best known for her comical skits in Saturday Night Live as well as her role as a surrogate mother in the 2008 movie Baby Mama. Her most recent performance has been a role as the Deputy Director of the Parks department in the TV series Parks and Recreation. Of course she doesn’t lack any humor when it comes to the commercial. It opens up with a Best Buy worker approaching Amy. He asks‚
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demonstrate their maternal relationships between mother and child. In Amy Chua’s novel Battle Hymn of A Tiger Mom‚ she shows how she and her daughter have a very tense yet close relationship‚ while in Amy Tan’s novel The Joy Luck Club‚ she and her mother have a very strict and unloving relationship. Both mothers want more out of their daughters‚ but Tan’s mother is much stricter and more intense about her commitment to the piano. In Amy Chua’s excerpt “The Violin”‚ the tense relationship between Chua
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The passage “Fish Cheeks” written by Amy Tan is a short based on Amy Tan’s personal experience as a typical Asian girl growing up in an American culture. Amy’s only wishes that her and her family were more American so that she could fit the modern American world. She has a huge crush on a boy named Robert‚ who is the minister’s son and she gets terrified when she finds out Roberts family gets invited her to a traditional Chinese Christmas Eve dinner. Just when Amy thought it couldn’t get any worse‚
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the pumas. My only friend is Amy‚ a psychic twelve year old girl that attends seventh grade at New York Middle School. As I was walking to school with my friend Amy‚ I suddenly had a seizure. During the seizure‚ I saw a little boy shivering in fear. There was a gun pointed to his head. He said something but I couldn’t hear him but I knew what he had said. He had said help me. When I awoke‚ my head was covered in sweat. I thought‚ “How long was my seizure?” Amy read my thought and answered
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December 6‚ 2012 “Mother Tongue” In the short autobiography narrative “Mother Tongue” written by Amy Tan she discusses the reasons why she was passionate on becoming a writer. It is no surprise‚ that her vision in the work of fiction it is outstanding throughout her struggles with the English language as a Chinese young girl born in an immigrant family. She faced many obstacles of the culture of the 1950’s‚ 1960’s and 1970’s. However‚ she never gave up on the dream of being a writer and defeat
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language. However‚ what makes us different is that it is rare to find two people that speak the exact same English. This is the argument Amy Tan makes in her story “Mother Tongue.” She shares her personal story of the English she speaks‚ and how much the people you are around can change the way you converse. Born in the United States to immigrant parents from China‚ Amy Tan failed her mother’s expectations that she become a doctor and concert pianist. She settled for writing fiction. Her novels are
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Mother tongue‚ Amy writes how her mother who couldn’t speak well Standard English was treated unfairly in the foreign land. In this essay‚ she mentions some stories related to her childhood experiences which were happened to them. "... I had plenty of empirical evidence to support me: the fact that people in department stores‚ at banks‚ and in restaurants did not take her seriously‚ did not give her good service‚ pretended not to understand her‚ or even acted as if they did not hear her." Amy makes wrathful
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A LETTER TO AMY CHUA Dear Amy Chua: I am a student who is raised by demanding eastern parenting style you described in your article “Why Chinese Mothers Are superior” and can easily find this kind of parenting style in China. As a typical Chinese mom‚ you demonstrate an general idea held by most Chinese parents that keeping working “makes the once not fun activity fun” with your own experience about enforcing Lulu to finish the task which seems impossible. And you also notice that children due
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