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    Waverly’s mother is a very proud person‚ and this is unchanged from the beginning to the end of Amy Tan’s “Rules of the Game”; but actually‚ she becomes an antagonist near the end of the story. It is understandable that she‚ as a mother‚ is always proud of her daughter’s success‚ but her excessive pride has triggered a conflict with her daughter Waverly‚ which reveals that mutual understanding is quite important for a parent-child relationship‚ especially for adolescents. She maintains her pride

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    Amy Tan’s Mother Tongue Throughout the passage of “Mother Tongue‚” the author Amy Tan uses strategies in a way to have the reader influenced by the point she is trying to prove. And in this case she is explaining the idea of language in the Asian-American community. She is speaking through multiple perspectives in her own life to show how society is not very understanding to people who are native speakers or can not speak as fluently‚ in a way that people view their English speaking in different

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    Alhaddada By Amy Tan

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    AlhaddadA Essay Submitted by AL HADDAD‚ AHMED MOHAMED (AL HADDAD) on 9/10/2010 6:14:16 PM Amy Tan is a daughter of a Chinese emigrant‚ who had a dream of going to America‚ to escape poverty and provide a better quality of life and education for her daughter. This dream is accomplished‚ providing her daughter with the right tools to become a successful writer‚ and she then goes and discusses her relation with her roots and heritage‚ through the language she is speaking now‚ English. She mentions

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    Family and Amy Tan

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    Snapshot: Lost Lives Of Women By: Amy Tan 1a)b) Three phrases that indicate the status of women in china in 1922 would be; "Jingmei‚ my own grandmother‚ She was the widow of a poor scholar‚ a man who had the misfortune of dying from influenza when he was about to be appointed a vice magistrate. In 1924 or so‚ a rich man forced her into becoming one of his concubines. My grandmother‚ now an outcast‚ took her young daughter to live with her on an island outside of Shanghai. She left her son behind

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    Amy Tan Themes

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    Essay Writing Amy Tan’s beautifully written novel outlines what it is to be an immigrant in America and a daughter‚ woman‚ wife‚ lover‚ sister and friend. The novel shows four different stories each from different women that were born in China but forced to leave due to tragic occurrences‚ and their four daughters who were all born on the other side of the world‚ America. The novel explores one of the themes‚ the cultural divide between the two generations of women and their daughters and how

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    Rules of the Game

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    Amy Tan writes American literature with a Chinese-American view with her short story titled “Rules of the Game”‚ where she shows multiple themes like; chess is a game of life‚ mothers versus daughters‚ cultural gap‚ and the generation gap. The Characters The writer Amy Tan uses similar experiences to give the characters life and a sense of real Chinese-American life and the clash between cultures. The Chinese have a life thought of honor and luck and the American’s is cockiness and self-confidence

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    Amy tan reading response

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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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    Amy Tan Fish Cheeks

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    culture. Amy Tan explained the story in great detailed and also taught an excellent lesson about not being afraid to be diverse from other people. “You must be proud you are different. Your only shame is to have shame.” People act different‚ culture wise yet‚ at the end of the day everyone is alike. Sharing your heritage to the world is a great thing because other people can learn from it and won’t be afraid to share their own. The reading Fish Cheeks‚ is a positive story because Amy Tan shared

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    Amy Tan, Two Kinds

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    Composition & Literature | Amy Tan | Professor Blum | JAEL VARGAS 12/17/2012 | This story’s main events take place in Chinatown throughout the 1950s and perhaps early 1960s. The main character of the story‚ who is also the protagonist‚ is the author herself: Amy Tan. The antagonist happens to be her own mother‚ who is always pushing Amy to discover some hidden talent and be someone she is not. There are a few other minor characters in the story. There is Lindo Jong (who she calls

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    Amy Tan and Maya Angelou come from extremely different cultures‚ and trying to feel accepted in American Culture. Both authors discuss a feeling of being an outcast and how their cultural differences set them apart. However‚ Amy Tan effectively uses narration and description to depict her sense of isolation from the dominant American culture. Angelou’s story is set in the South during the 1930’s when racism was prominent in society and an acceptable practice. Angelou’s writing mostly describes

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