This has got to be the best story that I have read for 2011…… This story begins when I was a child: I was born poor. Often we hadn’t enough to eat. Whenever we had some food‚ Mother often gave me her portion of rice. While she was transferring her rice into my bowl‚ she would say "Eat this rice‚ son! I’m not hungry." That was Mother’s First truthful Lie. As I grew‚ Mother gave up her spare time to fish in a river near our house; she hoped that from the fish she caught‚ she could give me a
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Written by authorJoyce Maynard‚ the essay‚ "Honoring Mothers: Four Generations"‚ begins with a description of the relationship between mother and daughter. The first few lines illustrate how a daughter‚ typically‚ would grow up to be much like her mother. ("The kind of mother I am is all wrapped up with the kind of mother I had."). In the first paragraph‚ the author explains how mothers pass on certain traits to their daughters‚ whether deliberately or unconsciously. These traits are then carried
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This short story “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin talks about the Idea of being confined mentally and physically. Our main protagonist Louise Mallard is a sickly woman who is in a relationship with the man she loves she instantly bounds herself to him and only him. The quote “Kind‚ Tender hands” of Brently Mallard give us an insight to who he was and his impact on Louis Mallard. As soon as she hears about his sudden death‚ she loses her mind and instead starts to reflect on her situation and
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settings in “Rules of the Game” by Amy Tan The physical and social settings of “Rules of the Game” create an atmosphere which helps to bring out the true essence of the story [The rest of the paper continues from here] Arora 2 Assignment 2 “Rules of the Game” written by Amy Tan is a short story that focuses on the conflict in identity that Chinese Americans face when
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recital he is the only one who cheers enthusiastically. Father The narrator’s father makes only a token appearance in the story. He is not involved in the mother-daughter struggle over piano lessons. He does attend the recital; in fact‚ the narrator can’t tell if he is horrified or silently amused at her performance. Jing-mei Jing-mei is a rebellious child caught between two cultures: the Chinese culture that prevails in her mother’s home; and the American one that prevails everywhere else. She
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Contrasting “Two Kinds” vs. “Blue Winds Dancing” While both of these stories have different themes regarding cultural issues‚ the characters involved similarly have their own reasons that compel them to oppose their individual situations. In Amy Tan’s “Two Kinds” and in Tom Whitecloud’s “Blue Winds Dancing”‚ both narrators choose nonconformity regarding their unique situations‚ but have different motivations for doing so. In “Two Kinds”‚ the narrator struggles to be the ideal daughter that her mother
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A Personal Dialect In Amy Tan’s essay‚ “Mother Tongue‚” Tan expresses that she uses different versions of the English language depending on the type of relationship she shares with particular individuals. While Tan gave a speech to a group of people‚ she noticed a difference in her register of speech when she spoke to a group of people versus when she spoke to her mother. She noticed her use of “carefully wrought grammatical phrases” and “the forms of standard English that I had learned in school
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The Story of the Aged Mother A Japanese Folktale by MATSUO BASHO Long‚ long ago there lived at the foot of the mountain a poor farmer and his aged‚ widowed mother. They owned a bit of land which supplied them with food‚ and their humble were peaceful and happy. Shining was governed by a despotic leader who though a warrior‚ had a great and cowardly shrinking from anything suggestive of failing health and strength. This caused him to send out a cruel proclamation. The entire province was given
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THE STORY OF THE AGED MOTHER A Japanese Folktale Long‚ long ago there lived at the foot of the mountain a poor farmer and hisaged‚ widowed mother. They owned a bit of land which supplied them withfood‚ and their humble were peaceful and happy.Shinano was governed by a despotic leader who though a warrior‚ had agreat and cowardly shrinking from anything suggestive of failing health andstrength. This caused him to send out a cruel proclamation. The entireprovince was given strict orders to immediately
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it takes more than just denying it‚ because it is a part of them and it can’t be taken away. In the novel‚ The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan‚ three American-born Chinese girls; Waverly Jong‚ Rose Hsu and Jing-mei Woo constantly feel embarrassed or criticized by their Chinese mothers. Ultimately‚ they recognize that they have more similarities than differences to their mothers‚ and that these similarities alone can’t be removed because they are not just on the surface‚ they are formed in their bones‚ deep
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