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    Growing up‚ Amy Tan went through a time when she felt embarrassed and disappointed in who she was and where she came from. But as she got older she realized that she should have nothing but pride in her culture and what makes her who she is. Therefore‚ Amy Tan wrote the short story “Fish Cheeks” to explain to readers how she was able to overcome shame about her heritage and how she became proud and thankful for it. Amy Tan was able to move her short story along by using transition sentences. They

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    heritage. For example‚ if you were of Asian Descent People would expect you to do very well in any math course. Although you may be Asian and not be proficient at math people would still expect you to be because of the stereotype. In A story by Amy Tan named “Fish Cheeks‚” she explains her hardships of wanting to fit in with America traditions even though she was Chinese. She expresses her disapproval

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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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    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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    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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    food. Robert and his family waited patiently for platters to be passed to them. My relatives murmured with pleasure when my mother brought out the whole steamed fish. Robert grimaced. Then my father poked his chopsticks just below the fish eye and plucked out the soft meat. "Amy‚ your favorite‚" he said‚ offering me the tender fish cheek. I wanted to disappear. At the end of the meal my father leaned back and belched loudly‚ thanking my mother for her fine cooking. "It’s a

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    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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    people focus 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 CheeksAmy 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

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    Alexis Henry Gifted author of Fish CheeksAmy Tan‚ assures young girls that being different is not only acceptable‚ but also advantageous. Rhetorical strategies-such as imagery‚ tone‚ diction‚ and appeals (logos‚ ethos‚ pathos)-were the brushes with which she painted a portrait of self-acceptance for teenage girls everywhere. Tan uses a sympathetic tone to relate to the awkward teenage reader that is experiencing the same thing and the nostalgic adult reader that has experienced. Tan’s

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    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 the lesson Amy learned is‚ “You must be proud you are different”. 4. She want people to remember that it doesn’t matter where are you from or what others think about you or your culture; you must be proud of who you are and what you are and to never feel ashamed

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