We all want to be remembered‚ to leave some kind of legacy‚ something that we are known for. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan shows how Chinese immigrants‚ Suyuan Woo‚ An-mei Hsu‚ Lindo Jong‚ and Ying Ying St. Clair try to leave their legacy with their American assimilated daughters. Whether that be through stories about their lives in China or lessons that they learned‚ they hope they can connect with the new generation. One of the major themes embedded in this novel is that of identity. The mothers
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perfection is practically expected but impossible to achieve‚ language is one of the many ways that anyone around us can judge us. It is as Tan said‚ “…the fact that people in department stores‚ at banks‚ and at restaurants did not take her seriously‚ did not give her good service‚ pretended not to understand her‚ or even acted as if they did not hear her. “ Tan even said how her mother’s English ashamed her‚ that because her mother’s English was limited‚ it limited her perception of her mother‚ and
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Luck Club Cultural divides are difficult to overcome in storytelling because understanding another culture is a not an easy task. However‚ in The Joy Luck Club‚ Amy Tan does a wonderful job of making the Chinese culture comprehensible for the American reader. With a culture that is exceedingly different from American way of life‚ Tan presents both cultures side by side in order to draw attention to their differences and benefits. She acknowledges the materialistic American mind that is focused on
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Sonam Shankar ID# 1723801 English 103-276 January 17‚ 2011-01-17 Two Kinds Amy Tan In the short story “Two Kinds”‚ Amy Tan uses the narrator’s point of view to share a mother’s attempt to control her daughter’s dreams and ambitions. Tan`s short story is an example of how differing personalities cause struggles between a parent and child. Children often fall victim to a parent trying too hard or expectations being too high‚ and in the case of "Two Kinds‚" we see Jing Mei’s mother trying to
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appearance. Tan acknowledges the event as being a “shabby Chinese Christmas‚” stressing her newfound disgust in her family’s traditions‚ invoked by her perception of what Robert may perceive. At that point‚ Tan was unhappy and even embarrassed by her family and their traditions‚ stating: “On Christmas Eve I saw that my mother had outdone herself in creating a strange menu.” Tan’s description of the menu was a complete contradiction to what would have been her untainted thoughts. Tan herself had
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compassion. Mother-daughter relationships is one of the most important relationships we will ever have. That being said‚ we get to see two different relationships in the memoir Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom by Amy Chua and the novel The Joy Luck Club By Amy Tan. In the memoir‚ Chua’s tone is portrayed as a stressed mom‚ and Tan’s tone in the novel is expressed as resentful child. In the excerpt from “The Violin” in Amy Chua’s Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom. Amy Chua shows us her struggle to balance her equilibrium
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“Family like branches on a tree‚ we all grow in different directions‚ but our roots keep us all together”. This mean that we all become diverse individuals yet what keeps all of us united as one is our genealogy. In the story A Pair of Tickets by Amy Tan we come across a character named June May who is on her mid thirties and embarks on a mission to China to meet her lost twin sisters to notified them of their mother’s death and also to make her not existing mother “Long-Cherished Wish” come alive.
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However‚ what makes us different is that it is rare to find two people that speak the exact same English. This is the argument Amy Tan makes in her story “Mother Tongue.” She shares her personal story of the English she speaks‚ and how much the people you are around can change the way you converse. Born in the United States to immigrant parents from China‚ Amy Tan failed her mother’s expectations that she become a doctor and concert pianist. She settled for writing fiction. Her novels are The
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mothers (plus June)‚ the second and third groups by daughters‚ and the fourth by mothers. Jing-mei’s final story‚ in which she learns her mother’s history‚ concludes the book. “The Joy Luck Club” is the title of both the novel and this story. Author Amy Tan introduces and explains the concept of “joy luck” by showing two different Joy Luck Clubs in action. The first Joy Luck Club‚ in Kweilin‚ shielded the women’s spirits against the harsh living conditions and constant threat of war. Suyuan had dreamed
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Summary of “Mother Tongue” In the book‚ “Mother Tongue”‚ Amy Tan asserts that language is a tool of communication. Tan herself speak two kinds of English‚ standard English and broken English. She realizes that she always speak in perfect English‚ the standard English‚ when she gives a speech‚ when she is giving a speech which her mother attends. However‚ when she talks to her mother‚ she changes her language into a limited English‚ broken English‚ without any transfer. This is because the language
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