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    Amy Tan has a contentious relationship with her mother perceived from her hostile tone. All mother-daughter relationships have troubles. In excerpts from Amy Chua’s memoir‚ Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom‚ and Amy Tan’s novel‚ The Joy Luck Club‚ mother-daughter relationships can be seen through diction‚ and tone. The annoyed tone in the situation between Amy Chua and her daughter shows a caring relationship while the hostile and hateful tone in Amy Tan’s excerpt shows a poor relationship with a hateful

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    between a mother and daughter are something not easily replicated. The Joy Luck Club‚ by Amy Tan‚ follows the relationships of four women and their daughters. While they all face different situations‚ it all boils down to the importance of family support. All four of the Chinese-born mothers left China and set out for America with high hopes for themselves and their children’s’ futures.They want to give their daughters what they didn’t have growing up. “‘In America I will have a daughter just like

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    The mother wants the best for her daughter‚ Jing-mei‚ but Jing-mei is fighting her. Jing-mei’s mother has the internal conflict of wanting the best for her daughter. She also has the external conflict of Jing-mei not being motivated enough to become a prodigy. Jing-mei’s mother is right to push her daughter. In “Two kinds” one example would be: “America was where all my mother’s hopes and dreams lay. She had come

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    are no simple or perfect relationships between mothers and daughters. Relationships are a delicate balance between the love and emotions of two individuals. They are ever changing and evolving‚ and are each unique as the people in them. Amy Tan’s novels offer an inside glimpse into several intricate mother daughter relationships. Her characters suffer hardships as well as times of joy. There are many similarities in the mother and daughter relationships in the books by Amy Tan. One of the most difficult

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    Mothers and daughters have been written about‚ criticized‚ publicized‚ condemned‚ and praised for a long time. As more and more material becomes available on mother-daughter relationships‚ it becomes apparent that being a mother and being a daughter means different things to different people depending on race‚ economics‚ social status and blood type. This paper will explore the meaning of being a mother and being a daughter by combining all of these independent variables. A definition of motherhood

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    A mother-daughter relationship is very crucial in a girl’s life. It is widely known that if a girl doesn’t have her mother to turn to for everything‚ she will most likely turn to her friends. The “mother and daughter” bond should be the closest bond a girl can have. No friend should measure up to the closeness you share with your mother. It is sometimes very difficult for this to happen for many different reasons. In many cases‚ the mother will feel like her daughter doesn’t understand because

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    MOTHER-DAUGHTER RELATIONSHIPS In my opinion a woman is never complete until the birth of her first child. The moment she holds her baby for the first time‚ she thinks of all the things she’ll teach the baby. Many mothers dream of having a baby girl‚ to share the secrets of “woman-hood”. A mother-daughter relationship is a special bond between mother and daughter; their bonding can start at a very early age. As children we idolized our mothers and that’s the way it’s always been‚ until

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    Amy Tan writes‚ in this essay‚ about the language that she and her mother used in their family while Tan was growing up. She makes a great effort to explain that their language‚ English‚ was never "broken" or "simple" as most people would say about it. Although she could speak perfect English‚ her mother could not. But‚ she grew up with her mother’s English way of speaking‚ and therefore learned to consider it as a natural language. She is trying to make a point here by saying that there is absolutely

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    The relationship between the mother and daughter in Annie John is dynamic. The relationship in the beginning of the novel is positive and respected‚ but throughout the book Annie fights the idea that she and her mother are separate and different people. By the end of the book Annie realizes and accepts the idea and that it is true. In the second chapter‚ Annie says‚ "My mother and I often took a bath together. Sometimes it was just a plain bath‚ which did not take very long. Other times it was a

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    the United States in hopes of finding a better job or just a better lifestyle overall. Amy Tan‚ born in 1952 in Oakland‚ California is famous for her novel The Joy Luck Club (1989). In this book‚ it explores the relationship between four traditional Chinese mothers and their four Chinese-American daughters. With focusing more on the mother and daughter from the section of Two Kinds‚ this mother and daughter duo had the

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