The Struggles Faced in The Color Purple and The Joy Luck Club A common bond of struggle links the novels The Color Purple by Alice Walker and The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. Rape‚ suicide‚ death‚ war‚ oppression‚ and racism invade the two novels. In The Color Purple‚ Celie overcomes racism‚ violence‚ and other issues to find dignity and love. In the Joy Luck Club‚ the daughters struggle for acceptance‚ love‚ and happiness. Though the characters endure many hardships they survive not only by not becoming
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on communication and how effectively it is used. We need to communicate to get new and innovative ideas across‚ to state opinions‚ to sort our arguments and most importantly‚ to better understand those around us. The short story Mother Tongue by Amy Tan addresses the reality that the inability to communicate effectively and see the different perspectives of those around us can hinder the flow of society and often block us from new ideas and potential. Communication is different for everyone as shown
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and Contrasting “Two Kinds” vs. “Blue Winds Dancing” While both of these stories have different themes regarding cultural issues‚ the characters involved similarly have their own reasons that compel them to oppose their individual situations. In Amy Tan’s “Two Kinds” and in Tom Whitecloud’s “Blue Winds Dancing”‚ both narrators choose nonconformity regarding their unique situations‚ but have different motivations for doing so. In “Two Kinds”‚ the narrator struggles to be the ideal daughter that
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Chinese daughters have assimilated to the American culture‚ so their mothers explain the pain and anguish they had in China to show them how good they have it in America‚ and shouldn’t abandon their original culture. In the novel‚ The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan‚ losing family members‚ pressures of marriage‚ and disbanding from family members were all misfortunes that took place to these four families. The catastrophe of losing a family member applies
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Ms. Gallivan 16 May 2014 You Are Your Own Mommy Some 80 to 90 percent of women report good relationships with their mothers—though they wish it were better. The Joy Luck Club and The Kitchen God ’s Wife‚ two realistic fiction novels written by Amy Tan‚ display the distress that Chinese mothers face with their first generation American daughters. The Joy Luck Club reveals the desires among four mother-and-daughter pairs while also revealing their differences and conflicts. The mothers desire is
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The short stories" Rules of the Game" by Amy Tan‚ and "Who’s Irish" by Gish Jen deal with immigrant mothers and their experiences with their daughters. Each story tells how their is a strain on the mother-daughter relationship and a gap with culture. In "Rules of the Game"‚ Amy Tan’s narrator is Waverly Jong. Waverly is forced throughout the story to discover what game she is playing‚ and what rules she must follow in order to succeed in life. Waverly’s chess playing becomes a metaphor for her struggle
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Different Views of the American Dream Upon entering the fictional world of the story‚ "Two Kinds"‚ thought up by the author Amy Tan‚ we can easily target one of the author’s main themes‚ which is the American Dream. Tan demonstrates this idea through the different interpretations the two main characters have of the American Dream. These two characters being the mother and the daughter‚ they have very different visions of the American Dream‚ which will be reflected through their personality and
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Amy Tans- Two Kinds John Updikes- A&P Maturity / Maturation. Throughout life‚ humanity craves the chance to become all "grown up." They are constantly antisipating the opportunity to participate in the activities those of age are able to do. However‚ what many do not realize is being grown up does indeed give you all of those opportunities to fulfill‚ but it also takes away something very important‚ and that is your childhood. Amy Tan’s Two Kinds and John Up Dikes A&P‚ portray both a missing
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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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