In the short story “Rules of the Game” by Amy Tan‚ Waverly Jong‚ the narrator‚ explains that she was a child when her mother taught her "the art of invisible strength‚" a strategy for winning arguments and gaining respect from others in games. Waverly and her two brothers live in San Francisco’s Chinatown. When Waverly’s brother Vincent receives a chess set at the church Christmas party‚ Waverly quickly becomes interested in the game of chess. She begins to win local tournaments and becomes a national
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Conflict occurs between mothers and daughters across all nationalities‚ including the Chinese-American mother-daughter duo in Two Kinds by Amy Tan. Jing-Mei‚ the daughter of Suyuan‚ resents her mother’s efforts to aid in her success‚ and eventually begins to sabotage her own progress. Suyuan does not want Jing-Mei to go through all of the challenges she has faced in her life‚ and tries to do what she believes is best for Jing-Mei. Although at times she may have been inconsiderate of what her daughter
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Mei’s mother believed that you could be anything you wanted to be in America. (p 405) America is where all Jing Mei’s mothers hope lay. She had come to America in 1949 after losing everything in china. The main character of the story is Jing Mei (Amy Tan) who is also the protagonist in the story. Her mother is the antagonist‚ who is always urging Jing Mei to try new things and discover new talents. Jing Mei feels as if her mother wants her to be something she is not. Other characters in the story
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more on what type of intentions others have. When finding your own identity it is easy to get caught up in the materialistic things in life. When one’s identity is being described‚ people tend to think of one’s image. In the story “Fish Cheeks” Amy Tan explained in paragraph one that when she was a teen‚ all she wanted for Christmas was a “slim new American nose.” Meaning she did not like her Chinese image. Throughout the story she admitted that she wanted so badly to be an American and fit in when
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to keep true to their traditions while living around American culture. The major conflict in Rules of the Game‚ the clash of different cultures‚ leads to the weakening of the relationship between the Waverly and her mother. For example‚ when Waverly reenters the apartment after running away‚ she sees the "remains of a large fish‚ its fleshy head still connected to bones swimming upstream in vain escape" (Tan 508). Waverly sees herself as the fish‚ stripped clean by her mother’s power‚ unable to break
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to keep up with other children in the same age and lots more. All of that is explained in one sentence Amy Tan wrote. The title of her article is ’’ Mother Tongue’’ and it was in 1990. The main purpose of her article is to show that there are a lot of people that want to learn a new language but face difficulties with their families as the family don’t talk that language very well. As Tan said‚ she describe the language that parents speak as broken. Putting yourself in other people’s shoes or
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“Two Kinds” Reflection The story “Two Kinds” is written by a Chinese author named Amy Tan. I read the story in class with my table group. In my opinion‚ reading with my group improved my reading skills. I was able to discuss and analyze the story with my group. Compare to the mythologies that I read on my own and outside of class‚ some of them are very complexed in writing and I wasn’t able to discuss with anyone about it until class time. Another reason why I think reading with a group advanced
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lifetimes. From a mother to a child‚ a friend to one another‚ or a sister to a brother‚ kin and friendships possess a powerful position in lives in countless circumstances— whether good or bad. In the brilliant novel The Valley of Amazement‚ written by Amy Tan and published in 2013‚ it depicts how relationships are a significant aspect of our lives and they affect us all throughout our lives. This book conveys the impact relationships possess throughout lives and that they are not easily discarded because
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Mothers have always played an important role in their daughter’s life. They help mold us into the people we will become; they are there for us when we need support and raise us in the best way they know how. In Amy Tan’s "Two Kinds"‚ we see Jing-mei struggle with her mother’s expectations and the disappointment that follows when she doesn’t meet them. She struggles to see her mother’s quiet support and love and instead feels as though she isn’t being seen for who she really is. Like many other mother-daughter
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"Two Kinds" by Amy Tan The story "Two Kinds‚" by Amy Tan is just one of the stories about the relationship between mothers and daughters in the book‚ The Joy Luck Club. We start this story with a mother‚ a Chinese immigrant to the United States‚ telling her American born daughter‚ Jing-mei‚ at a very young age that she can become anything she wants to become in America; more specifically‚ a prodigy of some sort. We witness the mother’s search for what kind of prodigy she will turn her daughter
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