READING GUIDE: MEMORY AND MEMOIR Introduction 1. Before you begin each assigned essay‚ read about the author’s life (biography). In particular‚ note literary biography. On our Learning Web‚ I have a website link for each author we study. 2. Note the titles. What expectations do the titles create? Once you have finished reading each essay‚ reconsider each title. 3. As you read‚ note the author’s intertwining of some of the elements of memoir: narration‚ description (especially appeals
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The short story ’A Pair of Tickets’ is a component of a novel ’The Joy Luck Club’ by Amy Tan which focuses on a woman fulfilling the lifelong wish of her mother. The title symbolizes the discovery of the narrator’s identity‚ and the soul of her emotional nature and feelings towards her mother. The setting in this story changes the soul of the narrator as she begins to discover things about herself and her two different cultures. As the story progresses‚ she begins to question things in her life
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A Pair of Tickets In the short story "A Pair of Tickets‚" by judging from the title one might think that this is a simple story more about adventure than anything else. In “A Pair of Tickets” The author Amy Tan uses a symbols to help us understand the theme the story. Family and Culture are the most important topic in this story therefore; it gives us a better understanding of the story. As stated in the context of the story “Jing-mei is on a train to China‚ traveling with her seventy-two-year-old
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Amy Tan’s short story “Two Kinds” illustrates a young girls struggle with her highly opinionated mother and finding her own way. Jing-Mei’s mother continually enforces Jing-Met to carry out tasks the way she wants her to‚ her way. Therefore Jing-Mei is unable to grow as her own person and carry out the choices she wants to. Throughout Jing-Mei’s journey she begins to develop negative thoughts of herself and displays the attributes of insecurity‚ stubbornness and cruelty. Jing-Mei’s stubbornness
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Throughout The Joy Luck Club Amy Tan inserts various conflicts betweens mothers and daughters. Most of these relationships‚ already very fragile‚ become distanced through heritage‚ history and expectations. These differences cause reoccurring clashes between two specific mother-daughter bonds. The first relationship exists between Waverly Jong and her mother‚ Lindo. Lindo tries to instill Chinese qualities in her daughter while Waverly refuses to recognize her heritage and concentrates on American
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Nancy Arroyo Ruffin once said‚ “the best thing parents can do for their children is allow them to be who they were born to be.” In both Amy Tan’s Two Kinds and W.H. Auden’s The Average‚ the protagonist’s parents work for their children to lead great lives‚ which the children in turn reject because they see themselves as average; however in Two Kinds the protagonist’s negative self-image comes from a desire to spite her mother‚ whereas in The Average it stems from the protagonist’s aspiration for
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Zheng Wang ENC 1102 RXB3 Final draft The Conflicts between Mother and Daughter in “Two Kinds” In the story “Two Kinds”‚ author Amy Tan‚ who is a Chinese-American‚ describes the conflicts in the relationship of a mother and daughter living in California. The protagonist in this story Jing-mei Woo’s mother is born and raised in China‚ and immigrates to the United States to escape from the Chinese Civil War. For many years she maintained complete Chinese traditional values‚ and has been abided by
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The literacy narrative‚ “Mother Tongue”‚ by Amy Tan‚ is about the different kinds of Englishes which exist in Tan’s world and how she went against the grain to become a successful writer using the same kinds of Englishes she once despised. Tan recounts how she coped with communicating in a simplistic manner of English with her not so fluent mother‚ then on the other hand‚ learning to develop and hone her English skills in school. As a teen‚ Tan‚ under the orders of her mother‚ pretended to be her
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A Boundary of a mother and daughter relationship The film “The Joy Luck Club” based on the book “The Joy Luck Club” by Amy Tan. It depicts a story of a group of aged Chinese women in San Francisco who are fun of playing mahjong while sharing stories of their lives. The movie unveils sixteen different stories of how these Chinese immigrants and their American-Chinese daughter faces cultural conflict. The film shows the sufferings that these Chinese women encounter back in China and how they cope
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is also very difficult to obtain‚ yet it is so common that nine year old chess prodigies can harness it. One does not have to be as brave a knight or as powerful as a king in order to gain respect‚ but the use of “invisible strength‚” according to Amy Tan’s‚ “Rules of the Game‚” is the power needed to access respect. Waverly‚ the protagonist in “Rules of the Game‚” uses invisible strength to gain respect from others by listening to the teachings of her mother‚ being knowledgeable about the thing
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