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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Fasting of the Heart: Mother-Tradition and Sacred Systems in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club "Concentrate your will. Hear not with your ears but with your mind ;not with your mind‚ but with your spirit . . . blank‚ passively responsive to externals. In such open receptivity only can Tao abide. And in that open receptivity is fasting of the heart." (Chuangtze‚ in Yutang‚ 228) "The Master said‚ ’Look at the means a man employs‚ observe the path he Joy Luck Club Is it fair to judge someone by their sex
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wearing the invisibility cloak from Harry Potter. After reading The Joy Luck Club however‚ I realize that Invisible strength is a trait that we should all strive to get. Invisible strength comes in many forms and does many things. In the Joy Luck Club‚ Amy Tan is trying to show that even in the worst of circumstances‚ people can gain control over their own lives with the motif of invisible strength. This motif develops within the Jong family between both Lindo and Waverly. Lindo first discovers
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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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taken toward drug abuse especially in young people. The fear is that young people will model the behaviors of celebrity drug offenders and this will lead them to a life of taking risks such as drug abuse. This is evident in the appeal and popularity of Amy Winehouse. Although Winehouse was eccentric and had many reports of prosecution and rehabilitation for drug use she was voted the “ultimate heroine”. In total there were 4 focus group totaling twenty young people. The groups were held by using thematic
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Professor Victoria Murray Expository Writing II 10/2/2014 Two Kinds "Two Kinds" is truly an amazing work; it captivates readers by telling a story of a young girl trying to find herself. Amy Tan does a phenomenal job‚ not only by portraying a very real mother-daughter relationship‚ but at showing how much a young girl can change. Jing-Mei evolves throughout the story in a way that many people can relate to; crushed hopes‚ obeying your parents
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stage in the stories they write. The newest term for this focus on the powerful heroine is called “Girl Power” and this strength of persona can be seen in two pieces of literature in particular. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan and A Taste of Honey by Shelagh Delaney. In the Joy Luck Club Amy Tan write about the lives of four mother’s from China who pass their lives’ wisdom down to their daughters who are growing up on the foreign shores of California‚ USA. Each of these women has a story to tell about
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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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The short stories" Rules of the Game" by Amy Tan‚ and "Who’s Irish" by Gish Jen deal with immigrant mothers and their experiences with their daughters. Each story tells how their is a strain on the mother-daughter relationship and a gap with culture. In "Rules of the Game"‚ Amy Tan’s narrator is Waverly Jong. Waverly is forced throughout the story to discover what game she is playing‚ and what rules she must follow in order to succeed in life. Waverly’s chess playing becomes a metaphor for her struggle
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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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