life. "Two kinds" by Amy Tan‚ shows when two different worlds collide it can be a big mess. It can change the way you view things maybe things you never thought about before. The story refers to a girl and a mother conflicting about culture and the way one another was raised. In the story the little girl’s mom could conflicts with her daughter mainly because of how she was raised and how things were for her growing up. "I didn’t have to do what my mother said anymore. I wasn’t her slave
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Kinds‚" Amy Tan writes a coming of age story about a young girl in San Francisco and the cultural differences she has with her Chinese mother. The result is conflict between the two from the girl ’s inability to live up to her mother ’s expectations. The mother left China after losing everything and sees America the place where you can have it all. She attempts to make her daughter into a prodigy against her daughter ’s will. After years of clashing the daughter disappoints her mother by performing
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or race. This is not etiquette. In Amy Tan’s memoir Fish Cheek‚ she touches on this subject by using humor to talk about her embarrassment at her Christmas Eve dinner with the minister’s family. Tan begins by introducing the reader to her inner feelings of her crush and her culture‚ with an optimistic and pessimistic attitude. She feels this way because she has no idea how the minister’s family will think of her strange Chinese culture. So even though Tan’s mother was preparing the proper food for
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The story of “Peanut’s Fortune” is told by Peanut’s sister‚ who is involved within the plot but remains unnamed throughout her narration. Throughout the short story‚ Amy Tan writes in first person‚ allowing Peanut’s sister to personally retell the story to her daughter. VII. STRUCTURE “Peanut’s Fortune” is primarily told in chronological order‚ following the natural sequence of time during a period of four days. The short story begins when Peanut and her sister travel through the town‚ observing
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short story "Two Kinds‚" Amy Tan explores the clash of cultures between a first-generation Chinese-American daughter‚ Jing-mei‚ and her mother‚ Suyan‚ a Chinese immigrant. Suyan is certain that Jing-mei can become a prodigy if she only tries hard enough. At first Jing-mei is eager to try‚ but she always falls short of her mother’s expectations. She decides that the prodigy in her is the girl who would steadfastly refuse to be what she is not. While the mother and daughter reveal their personality
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their food and manners differ from Americans; Amy Tan shows the contrast of cultures in “Fish Cheeks”. Chinese New Year food and manners are different from the way we’re raised as Americans. The Chinese prepare food for the holidays that many of us haven’t even tried in our lifetime‚ yet they eat it more than once a year. During the dinner‚
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The plot of both stories is greatly affected because of the lack of understanding that the older generation has of American culture‚ which leads to conflict with the younger generation. In Who’s Irish‚ the grandmother is a tough woman who values hard work and discipline. She is from a culture that believes that hard work breeds success and she is disgusted with her son-in-law and his brothers who cannot find work or are too lazy to try. She states‚ “I especially cannot understand my daughter’s husband
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We examines one story of Amy tan in our course that was ’ Voice from the opposite side of the divider " From his story‚ we comprehend that regardless of what the moms are doing‚ they are really endeavoring to secure their little girls and enable them to make tracks in an opposite direction from threat and troubles. For instance‚ Ying-yang revealed to Lena must not go to any heading but rather just school and back home to stay away from any perils. Furthermore‚ we should regularly express our considerations
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After reading Amy Tan’s “Mother Tongue”‚ I realized how many different “Englishes” I have spoken or used‚ as well as how many I have heard in my life-particularly while in the military. For example‚ how I speak with authority figures versus friends‚ and how I speak with my daughter as opposed to “educated” adults. Although the English I speak with friends and coworkers is often filled with slang and swear words‚ I would never speak like that in many other settings. One of those times is‚ when
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past seem inadequate to this modern worlds language. Authors Ngugi Wa Thiong’O‚ Gene Luen Yang‚ Amy Tan‚ and Marjorie Agosin have all shared similar
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