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    Tan has a unique novel structure‚ meaning she has constructed her novel on the bases of the game‚ Mahjong. After the recent death of Suyuan Woo‚ The Joy Luck Club opens with her daughter‚ Jing-mei‚ attending the weekly meeting of food‚ games‚ and conversation. She was asked to fill in her mother’s position at the table‚ as is tradition. Jing-mei comments‚ “Without having anyone tell me‚ I know her corner on the table was the East… Auntie An-mei‚ who is sitting to my left… asks Auntie Lin across from

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    Amy Tan‚ a child of Chinese emigrants‚ was born in 1952 in Oakland‚ California. Shirley Jackson was born in San Francisco‚ California in 1919. Today both women are recognized authors‚ known for incorporating personal or autobiographical information into their material. Both women‚ each known for classic literary works in her own right‚ have more in common than merely being born in California in the twentieth century. This analysis of “The Lottery” and “Two Kinds” will demonstrate how both short

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    Club Amy Tan A major part of the novel of Amy Tan’s novels has been devoted to the reflection of the role of ethnicity in the life and choices of the narrator. Tan tries to force her characters to face the question and make decision that take the Chinese and American heritages into account. More specifically‚ the author‚ who hands the novel over to the narrator‚ centers on the drama of ethnicity and identity the various characters meet on occasion. In addition‚ in her novels‚ Amy Tan has tried

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    Two Kinds Summary - Amy Tan - Masterplots II: Short Story Series‚ Revised Edition 頁1/3 Welcome‚ Amy My Account My Profile Logout Search LITERATURE QUESTION & ANSWER Literature Study Guides DISCUSSION Literary Criticism DOCUMENTS Salem on Literature TEACHERS COLLEGE eTexts REFERENCE Lesson Plans Shakespeare at eNotes Get immediate homework help!We have live tutors standing by. FanStory.com Ads by Google Home > Two Kinds Summary & Study Guide

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    kindhearted person who would care for them” (Tan 325). Suyuan did not know what the future would hold‚ but she had to believe that her daughters would survive. Though Suyuan did not want to leave‚ she sacrificed herself in hopes that someone would give them a better life because if she had died with them‚ no one would take such unfortunate babies. In addition‚ when Suyuan reached Chungking and learned that her husband had died‚ “she was delirious with madness” (Tan 326). Even though Suyuan had come all

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    Tan Ban Eu’s Background Tan Ban Eu has been venturing into lot of ventures for the past decades. But not all were successful. Tan Ban Eu has been through several of hardship before he became who he now. After leaving his job as a technology consultant at KPMG Malaysia‚ he started his first business at the age of 22. He created an online platform for property developers to maintain their own community portals and he able to gain some clients after a year but the business did not gain the traction

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    Contented." The Character of Jing-Mei in Two Kinds While trying to understand the reasons for her mother wanting Jing-Mei to be great‚ Jing-Mei discovers the real meaning of two kinds. “Two Kinds” is written by Amy Tan. Jing-Mei‚ a young Chinese girl‚ grew up in America with her mother‚ a member of the Joy Luck

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    Waverly believed that her mother was using “secret weapons” to attack and criticize Rich sneakily like “thousands of flying cleavers”; as a result‚ Rich’s soul would erode away and he would transform to be a mundane and irritated person (Tan 175). She also terrified that her mother tried to “poison” her second marriage. Her belief is supported when she assumed that her mother found many ways to criticize everything belonging to Rich‚ such as his gift and appearance. Her depression mounted

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    Book report of The Joy Luck Club‚ by Amy Tan Author ’s biography and awards‚ Amy Tan was born in Oakland‚ California‚ in 1952‚ and now lives with her husband‚ tax lawyer Louis DeMattei‚ in San Francisco. The Joy Luck Club was her first and perhaps most well known book. It brought her great success and made her name known around the world. The book was made into a movie by director Wayne Wang‚ which Tan produced and wrote the screenplay for. Tan ’s other novels include The Kitchen God ’s Wife‚

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    qualities are distinct descriptive words that let us know about the particular characteristics of every character. For the characters like the narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper”(gutenberg.org) by Charlotte Perking Gilman‚ Jing-mei Woo in “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan‚ and Mr. Summers in “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson‚ these characters tell us more about their personality and their role in the story. Character attributes can be physical (He

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