Tan’s “Two Kinds” and Tillie Olsen’s “I Stand Here Ironing‚ Both authors write about two different stories that share a universal theme about the relationship between mother and daughter. However‚ the protagonist and antagonists have different viewpoints on their thinking. Both author’s use of theme‚ emotional dialogue and plot gives the reader an idea of the mother’s impact on each of their daughters lives. In “Two Kinds” the author uses strong emotional dialogue between the characters to illustrate
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Swiggity swind‚ remember always be kind. Two of the nations largest rivers meet in the American Bottom. The Mississippi and Missouri Rivers served as channels of change to the area‚ bringing outside influences of many different peoples to an Indian-inhabited land. Like the constant flow of the rivers‚ there was a constant change in the American Bottom. The progress eventually developed the area into a center of economic activity and gateway to the west‚ but also excluded native and long-time residents
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In the story “Two Kinds”‚ Tan portrays how excessive parental control alienates a child and makes them insecure causing them to rebel against their parent’s beliefs and standards. The mother lives her dreams through her daughter. She moved to America from China because she believed that anything is possible there. She wanted to give her daughter everything she did not have as a child which is a chance to be successful and have a good life. The mother expected her daughter to be a prodigy. She would
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Though the two stories “Fish cheeks” and “Two Kinds” have many similarities‚ their differences play a key role in defining each individual story. Both stories have the same basic setup; they are each told from the point of view of a young Asian-American girl‚ who are both the daughters of generation Chinese immigrants. This proves to be a source of conflict in the two stories‚ due to the fact that the cultural and generational differences between both mother-daughter duos. In the story “Fish Cheeks
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for those reasons and wonder why they are getting punished. Disciplining children can become addicting to the point where a parent believes it’s a reward to the child opposed to seeing it as a way that will benefit him or her. In a short story‚ Two Kinds by Amy Tan‚ a mother saw disciplining her child as a benefit. The mother believed her daughter would be successful if the daughter was obedient towards all her commands. The daughter grew to hate the way she was raised by her mother‚ but at the end
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In the novel‚ A Tale of Two Cities‚ Sydney Carton’s character went through a series of decisions that affected the outcome of the novel. Sydney Carton looks almost looks exactly the same as Charles Darnay‚ but the main difference‚ was that Darnay was sober a majority of the time‚ and he cared and worked for his life. Lucie‚ the love of Carton’s life‚ had fallen in love with Darnay. After Carton realized that Lucie would have picked him if he hadn’t been so slavish and drunk a majority of the time
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to be found in each one of them. If a story lacks a proper theme‚ it feels unfulfilled. It has the reader feeling like his or her time is wasted‚ as a story without a lesson learned is just simply empty calories for the brain. In the short story “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan there is also a theme that can be discovered by reading‚ and deducing the hidden meaning that the author is trying to teach the reader. It is a story about a young girl named June who
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Chinese religion of Daoism is divided into two types different types‚ Philosophical and Religious Daoism. Religious Daoism was creating during the Warring States period in China and has two significant texts the Dao De Jing and the Zhuangzi. For the purpose of this essay‚ I will be examining four passages from the Dao De Jing‚ determining the meaning and providing examples of their usage in daily life. Out of the two Philosophical Daoist texts the Dao De Jing‚ written in approximately the 6th to 5th
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the main characters of the novel are comparable in some ways. Some of them may not even bump into one another in their lives‚ though they can be closely related. In this novel‚ the characters of Laura Brown and Virginia Woolf choose different direction of life (one of them is a full-time housewife whereas another is a writer plus housewife)‚ however‚ they both have struggles in it. The likenesses and differences of them relates to the theme of mortality. Laura Brown and Virginia Woolf are two different
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Many times in the novel‚ Christopher compares normal people to himself‚ therefore; the reader gets a better understanding on his beliefs. He relates regular people to the way he thinks and analyzes his opinion in a manor whether it is nice or not. Christopher stresses in the novel that he has his own way of thinking of complicated issues he has‚ along with many others. He absolutely hates being touched anywhere by anyone. This is shown when Christopher hits a police officer for the officer putting
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