Isabel Loeper Period 4 10/1/14 Fish Cheeks In Amy Tan’s Fish Cheeks‚ published in a 1987 issue of Seventeen Magazine‚ Tan wishes to let her audience know that it is okay to want to be different‚ but always hold on to who you were before as well. Ms. Tan drew in the audience by beginning her story with the common line about love. She made things interesting by tell us that her crush was set to join her at Christmas Eve. She went on to explain that her Chinese cultural family was an embarrassment
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nothing to be embarrassed about‚ but rather something to be proud of. She proved this by taking the menu to the extreme. For an example‚ in the last sentence‚ "For Christmas Eve that year‚ she had chosen all my favorite foods."; this demonstrates that‚ although Tan was embarrassed at the time of the dinner‚ her mother had chosen that she now realizes that she knew in her heart that the dinner did represent her Chinese heritage and that she should have been proud of it. The sentence that best describes
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Have you ever been in a situation were you cant except who you are and want to be the same as everybody else???? Amy Tan the writer of fish cheeks writes about herself. She is very creative but has a problem. she is Chinese but everybody else is American and she feels kind different. and lest out. and wishes she could be American. So without her knowing her mom and dad invite the family that her crush perhaps to be the son of the ministers family so she thinks he’s going to think were weird cause
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Questions: “Fish Cheeks” 1. Why does Tan cry when she finds out that the boy she is in love with is coming to dinner? -Amy cried‚ because she thought Robert would be disappointed about her and her family. 2. Why does Tan’s mother go out of her way to prepare a traditional Chinese dinner for her daughter and her guests? What one sentence best sums up the lesson Tan was not able to understand until years later? -I think Amy’s mother did a traditional Chinese dinner because since it was
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Fish Cheeks Acceptance in a new environment is tough whether you are from distant lands or around the corner fitting in is always desired. This is something many kids can relate to at one point or another. Amy Tan’s essay “Fish Cheeks” exposes the reader to the vulnerability she felt as a young Chinese teenager growing up in America. Fish Cheeks is a short story about a young Chinese girl in America with a crush on Robert‚ The son of the pastor of her church. Tan’s background inhibits the acceptance
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I fell in love with the minister’s son the winter I turned fourteen. He was not Chinese‚ but as white as Mary in the manger. For Christmas I prayed for this blond-haired boy‚ Robert‚ and a slim new American nose. When I found out that my parents had invited the minister’s family over for Christmas Eve dinner‚ I cried. What would Robert think of our shabby Chinese Christmas? What would he think of our noisy Chinese relatives who lacked proper American manners? What terrible disappoint-ment
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“Fish Cheeks” In Amy Tan’s short story‚ “Fish Cheeks”‚ Amy changes drastically. You really see a change in herself. Not an outward change‚ it’s definitely more of an inward change. In the beginning of the story she tells you how she fell in love with the minister’s son when she was fourteen. She was Chinese‚ he was American‚ and she made it evident that it bothered her. She was scared of what her crush‚ Robert‚ would think of her when his family had plans to come to her house for Christmas Eve
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means that from the local store owners to well-known celebrities‚ there are more than seven billion unique faces‚ unique personalities‚ and unique identities in the world. Among these seven billion are the authors Amy Tan and Mary Matsuda Gruenewald. In her short story "Fish Cheeks"‚ Tan told her tale of being a Chinese- American girl and the embarrassment that she felt came with it. Grunewald wrote the book Looking Like the Enemy‚ which detailed her Japanese-American family’s experience during the time
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Fish Cheeks The author uses a narrative pattern to illustrate her main idea that every culture is different and people should not be embarrassed about their cultures. In fact‚ the author tells her own story in chronological order to create a clear timeline of events in the mind of the ready and about how things happen over time. The author deftly portrays the contradictory feelings and the advantages of a girl who faces different cultures. For example‚ in the first paragraph she says “I fell in
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The story Fish Cheeks is just an example of how many people act when faced with certain situations; The fact is no one can run from having to act different in times that call for it. Understanding where the young lady in the story fish cheeks isn’t that tough. In the story a young chines lady invites her family and an American boy that she has been having a crush on for a long time to dinner; but after figuring out what her mother had on the menu the Young lady becomes nerves and embarrassed‚ resulting
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