On a cold December afternoon‚ a shy 10 year old waited with her family in a quaint restaurant. She sat nervously wondering if she could play in front of all these people. What if she made a terrible mistake? What if she cried? What if she couldn’t perform? These are the questions that consumed her mind. With encouragement from her mother‚ the girl hesitantly approached the electric piano. Opening to the page of her first song‚ she placed her fingers and began her elementary Christmas song. She submerged
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Past‚ present‚ future‚ will the financially less fortunate always be treated the same? Social classes are a common theme in many literary works because they impact the world in such a large way. Many authors use literature to express their opinions on world issues without causing a scene‚ money being a large and common topic that shows up within writing. Reading about the differences within the social classes and how differently they are treated only adds fire to the fuel of letting the wealthy run
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Two Kinds The protagonist in Two kinds is a young Chinese girl named Ni Kan. Ni Kan’s mother is an immigrant from China that wants more than any thing for her daughter to be a prodigy. She believes that in America‚ her daughter can be a child star. So she tests her‚ and finds out what other extraordinary kids her age can do‚ and tries to see if her daughter can also do these things. Then one day she decides that her daughter could be an excellent pianist. So she finds a teacher and sets her daughter
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Bailey Martin English 101 1-5-09 Compare and Contrast A Sorrowful Woman by Gail Godwin and “Saving Sourdi” by May-Lee Chai are two stories about how family will always be there for you‚ no matter what. The central themes in both of these stories are similar‚ but the methods the authors use to portray them differ. May-Lee Chai was the first of her family to be born in the United States‚ so it wasn’t hard for her to relate while writing “Saving Sourdi”‚ which is about a struggling Asian family living
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The theme of mother-daughter relationships is found throughout most of the chapters in The Joy Luck Club. It is the most predominant theme in the book. Some mother-daughter relationships‚ like the one found in the article by Psychology Today‚ represent how Rose Hsu Jordan was feeling when she married Ted despite her mother’s objections. Rose then needed her mother to help her to realize that because she chose not to make her own decisions‚ Rose would end up ruining the rest of her life. This situation
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Daughter of Fortune is an inspiring piece of literature that captivates its audience by opening its doors to the life of a young Chilean girl who travels a long journey desperately to find her lover‚ Joaquin Andieta‚ in California during the Gold Rush of 1849. Eliza Sommers‚ when pregnant‚ endangered her life by smuggling herself on the obscure bottom of a ship headed to California‚ a society where people where driven crazy by gold fever. Eliza was raised in a British colony of Valparaíso‚ Chile
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In the short story ‘Birthday Box’ by Jane Yolen the theme is life can be tough. Two reasons why my theme is life can be tough are that she had to live in the hospital and she had to live with her dad. My theme life is tough is because when her mom got sick‚ she had to live in the hospital. For instance‚ Katie had lived in the hospital so long that she knew every nurse. For example‚ V. Louise‚ Patty ‚ Tracey-Lynn‚ Lily‚ Mary Margaret‚ and many more. Also‚ another example is that even though she was
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Introductory Paragraph Jo’ell S. Maree was born at Forsyth Hospital in the year of 1997. She was born and is currently raised in Winston-Salem‚ NC. She is nineteen years of age and is currently getting her undergraduate degree in Fashion Merchandising at the University of North Carolina A&T which her father attended back in the late 80’s. She was born to the loving parents of Harold E. Maree Jr. and Sherry McCoy-Maree. They’re currently married‚ and making their way to twenty-two years of being
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Between the story “Two kinds” and “Everyday Use” I can feel the tension within the mother and daughter relationships. They both are unstable relationships but each for several reasons. In the story of “Two Kinds” the mother was very pushy with her daughter. The mother fully believes anything can happen in America. Therefore‚ sending her daughter through several tests and every time she sees a child succeeding in something she pushes her daughter do to that task. In the story Two Kinds she said “Every
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“Rules of the Game” “Rules of the Game” was written by Amy Tan. This short story takes place in Chinatown district of San Francisco during the 1950’s. Waverly was known as the child prodigy after she grew interest of chess while her brothers were playing it one day. Her brother‚ Vincent‚ had received a used chess set that were also missing some pieces from a Baptist Church Christmas Party that her family had attended. Waverly‚ being six years old‚ learns to play chess and becomes a national
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