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    Lynn V. Santisteban Professor Thacker English 255 21 March 2014 A Mother Daughter Relationship Most parents expect many things from their children but most importantly wish their children to be successful and happy‚ but parents hold different expectations based on their child’s gender. The expectations that both mothers have are common because both of them have daughters. These differences in expectations of gender can be seen in literature such as Girl by Jamaica Kincaid where she will list everything

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    culture. Amy Tan explained the story in great detailed and also taught an excellent lesson about not being afraid to be diverse from other people. “You must be proud you are different. Your only shame is to have shame.” People act different‚ culture wise yet‚ at the end of the day everyone is alike. Sharing your heritage to the world is a great thing because other people can learn from it and won’t be afraid to share their own. The reading Fish Cheeks‚ is a positive story because Amy Tan shared

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    Amy Tan is an author who uses the theme of Chinese-American life‚ focusing mainly on mother-daughter relationships‚ where the mother is an immigrant from China and the daughter is a thoroughly Americanized --yellow on the surface and white underneath. In her book‚ the mother tries to convey their rich history and legacy to her daughter‚ who is almost completely ignorant of their heritage‚ while the daughter attempts to understand her hopelessly old- fashioned mother‚ who now seems to harbor a secret

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    Not My Dream In the story "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan‚ we are shown the struggles of a young girl Jing-Mei. Her struggle is that of a young girl growing up and trying to find her own sense of identity. Her troubles are compounded by her mother‚ who convinces her that she can become someone important. Because of her mother’s constant overbearing behavior‚ Jing-Mei does everything she can to annoy and displease her mother even to the point of being a failure. This fight to find her own identity against

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    Kinds" by Amy Tan represents the theme that parents cannot control their children‚ but can only guide them. A Chinese mother and daughter Ni Kan are at odds with each other in story. The mother pushes her daughter to become a prodigy of some sort‚ her daughter does try to follow her mother ’s orders but has she gets older she realizes she wants to find her own self and not to be what her mother wants her to be. They both have conflicting values‚ which is the theme of the story. The daughter seeks her

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    impression does Amy Tan present of herself in “Fish Cheeks”? How? In “Fish Cheeks”‚ Amy Tan gives an impression of being insecure and overly dramatic. She is especially insecure about being Chinese‚ and this is evident in several points during the text. She has a crush on a white boy‚ Robert‚ who she describes first and foremost as “not Chinese‚ but as white as Mary in the manger”. Comparing him to Mary‚ a holy figure‚ almost suggests an idealization of Robert because of his race. Amy also wishes

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    DIFFERENCES AS A SOURCE OF CONFLICT BETWEEN MOTHER AND DAUGHTER Introduction 1952 was the year Amy Tan was born in Oakland California. She was the daughter of Chinese immigrants. Her mother had borne three daughters from a previous marriage in china. This first marriage had ended in divorce due to her husbands continued abuse. Amy Tan’s brother and sister both succumbed to brain tumor. Later‚ she and her mother moved to Switzerland where she completed her high school education. Tan ignored her mother’s

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    Amy Tan and Maya Angelou come from extremely different cultures‚ and trying to feel accepted in American Culture. Both authors discuss a feeling of being an outcast and how their cultural differences set them apart. However‚ Amy Tan effectively uses narration and description to depict her sense of isolation from the dominant American culture. Angelou’s story is set in the South during the 1930’s when racism was prominent in society and an acceptable practice. Angelou’s writing mostly describes

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     Fish Cheeks by Amy Tan  is about a event in Amy’s. Amy is a young Chinese girl that  has a crush on the minister’s son. At one point in Amy’s life her mother invites the minister’s family over for a Christmas eve dinner. After being told she was very apprehensive of the minister’s son and his family coming over for dinner. The reason she was so apprehensive was because of the meal that her mother cooked wasn’t a traditional American dinner. But it was all traditional Chinese food. Amy felt that her

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    artfully crafted story of four mother-daughter relationships that endure not only a generation gap‚ but the more unbridgeable gap between Chinese and American cultures. Amy Tan represented herself as Jing-Mei Woo in the novel. Her parents are both Chinese immigrants who raised her as a American. In her early teens‚ she learned that her mother had been married before in China. Just like Suyuan‚ Amy’s mother fled China‚ leaving behind her daughters. Amy and her mother argued about her college and career

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