CPT Essay Creativity Expands Life Expectations The phrase “thinking outside of the box” means to consider solutions creatively. “Poetry” by Pablo Neruda‚ “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan‚ and “The Blues Merchant” by Jerome Washington‚ all share the common subject of “thinking outside of the box”. This phrase is the power to expand life possibilities. In the poem “Poetry”‚ Neruda expresses art to develop life potentials. The poem begins with a person who “did not know what to say‚ my mouth‚
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Mother Tongue‚ by Amy Tan‚ best known for her book‚ The Joy Luck Club‚ and Se Habla Espanol‚ by Tanya Barrientos‚ delve into the many powers that language holds. These essays reflect how by not speaking a language in proper form and by not speaking a language at all‚ affects the lives of the subjects of the stories. People who can speak a certain language‚ but only in ‘broken’ form‚ are generally looked down upon by native language speakers. In her writing‚ Mother Tongue‚ Amy Tan writes about her
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when the mother is the nightmare‚ they have no comfort. The topics are excerpts‚ one is from Amy Chua’s memoir Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom and the other is from Amy Tan’s novel The Joy Luck Club are about mother-daughter relationships. The authors wrote about their own memories. Chua is about being the mother of two daughters and Tan is about being the daughter of two Chinese immigrant parents. In Amy Chua’s excerpt “The Violin”‚ Chua is retelling a memory of her and her daughter‚
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Heritage helps to develop a persons values showing what they believe in; particularly about the values of their family. In Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” and Amy Tan’s “A Pair of Tickets”‚ the author’s seem to explore a common theme of heritage. Alice Walker is exploring the concept of heritage as it applies to an African-American family. Amy Tan is displaying the theme of heritage as it relates to Chinese and a Chinese-American family. Dee‚ from Everyday Use‚ and Jing-Mei‚ from A Pair of Tickets‚ have
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people and hold power with ease. In the article “Mother Tongue”‚ Amy Tan emphasizes the idea that we all speak different languages unconsciously and that we are categorized by the way we speak. Language is power; people develop that power through their own sense of cultural and historical language and usage because language comes from culture. In “Mother Tongue‚” Amy Tan discusses the different experiences she had that made her realized the different types of "English’s"
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Exemplar A: Excellence Research topic: What’s on Amy Tan’s Mind? Research questions: ▪ What issues stand out in Amy Tan’s writing? ▪ How do the narrative techniques used highlight these issues? ▪ Why does Amy Tan highlight these issues? Research Notes: The Kitchen God’s Wife Author: Amy Tan. ISSUES Sense of self identity: ▪ Revelation of her mother’s secret past brings the identity of who Pearl’s biological father really is. ▪ To Pearl this news is horrific
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Bridging the Gaps In Amy Tan’s novel of conflicting cultures‚ The Joy Luck Club‚ the narrators contemplate their inability to relate from one culture to another. The novel is narrated by and follows the connected stories about conflicts between Chinese immigrant mothers and their American-raised daughters. Jing-mei‚ one of the daughters‚ has taken her mother’s place in a weekly gathering her mother had organized called the Joy Luck Club‚ in which four women would gather to gamble together to help
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Barrington Professor Ita Yankovich English 12 October 23‚ 2015 Exploring Language and Identity Question: Language is more than words put together; it is a tool of communication. What does Amy Tan author of “Mother Tongue” and Manuel Munoz author of “Leave your name at the border” say is the importance of language to them? How do they differ on their lives? Language is more than words put together; it explores the intimate
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Culture Influence in the Joy Luck Club The Joy Luck Club is a fictional novel by Amy Tan that unfolds the lives of four Chinese families and their American-born daughters. The story is portrayed in a diary-like fashion and it follows the lives and personal accounts of the Woo‚ Hsu‚ Jong‚ and St. Clair families. Culture is significant and it influences the story in many ways. The Chinese and American cultures clash in this particular novel. The Chinese culture is represented as a high- context
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