Sachi Shah Who’s Right? Me or Mom Gish Jen’s “Who’s Irish?” shows a cultural and generational gap between the narrator and her daughter. Each culture is different around the world‚ and poses some differences‚ yet are similar in many ways. People‚ around the world‚ live as the way they should according to their societies. What is the definition of family in this day and age? A group who are blood related. Family is a set of individuals who take care of each other‚ and live under one roof. Jen
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Does your culture affect how you view the world? In many stories such as: “Two Kinds”‚ “Two Ways to Belong in America”‚ and “Where Worlds Collide”‚ culture changes the way people view the world. From living in an Indian culture then living in America‚ to a mother trying to change her daughter from who she is; these stories are all revolving around culture. Culture has drastically changed people in the stories‚ for example: Jing-mei’s mother in “Two Kinds” is greatly influenced by America‚ and how
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Lucille Desiree Ball. The first thought that comes into many people’s minds when this name said‚ would be Lucy the well known funny character that played on the popular TV show I Love Lucy. How did she become a legend they ask? With dreams of being on stage in musicals to being the star on the big screen. She started out small‚ and ended up big. Looking back now‚ anyone could say that her childhood dreams definitely came true. Who would have thought that a Jamestown farm girl could grown to be a
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The Joy Luck Club contains different stories about the conflicts between Chinese immigrant mothers and their American daughters. The book opens after the death of Suyan Woo‚ the founding member of the Joy Luck Club. Suyan died before fulfilling her lifetime wish: to be reunited with her twin daughters who was lost in China. So‚ Jing-mei‚ Suyan’s daughter‚ is going to take a trip to China to see them in her mother honor. In my opinion‚ individuality‚ legacy‚ and family were preserved in the families
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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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