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    SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES ASPECTS | SIMILARITIES | DIFFERENCES | THEMES | For the short story‚ The Drover’s Wife the theme is life is precious and needs to be protected. Four innocent life would be lost if the drover’s wife fails in the duty as a protective mother.For the short story Looking for a Rain God‚ the theme is also life is precious. The moral issue on life in this story is; no one has the rights to take his or her life. Life is the gift of God and it is precious. | For the short

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    Mothers have always played an important role in their daughter’s life. They help mold us into the people we will become; they are there for us when we need support and raise us in the best way they know how. In Amy Tan’s "Two Kinds"‚ we see Jing-mei struggle with her mother’s expectations and the disappointment that follows when she doesn’t meet them. She struggles to see her mother’s quiet support and love and instead feels as though she isn’t being seen for who she really is. Like many other mother-daughter

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    to keep up with other children in the same age and lots more. All of that is explained in one sentence Amy Tan wrote. The title of her article is ’’ Mother Tongue’’ and it was in 1990. The main purpose of her article is to show that there are a lot of people that want to learn a new language but face difficulties with their families as the family don’t talk that language very well. As Tan said‚ she describe the language that parents speak as broken. Putting yourself in other people’s shoes or

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    “Two Kinds” Reflection The story “Two Kinds” is written by a Chinese author named Amy Tan. I read the story in class with my table group. In my opinion‚ reading with my group improved my reading skills. I was able to discuss and analyze the story with my group. Compare to the mythologies that I read on my own and outside of class‚ some of them are very complexed in writing and I wasn’t able to discuss with anyone about it until class time. Another reason why I think reading with a group advanced

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    "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan The story "Two Kinds‚" by Amy Tan is just one of the stories about the relationship between mothers and daughters in the book‚ The Joy Luck Club. We start this story with a mother‚ a Chinese immigrant to the United States‚ telling her American born daughter‚ Jing-mei‚ at a very young age that she can become anything she wants to become in America; more specifically‚ a prodigy of some sort. We witness the mother’s search for what kind of prodigy she will turn her daughter

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    American writer Amy Tan (1952- ) shows connections between women within a family throughout her novels The Bonesetter’s Daughter‚ The Joy Luck Club‚ and The Hundred Secret Senses. Tan illustrates the kind of relationship the women share‚ how their opinions on life differ‚ and how they resolve their differences. Ms. Tan uses her own experiences with life and her family to inspire her fictional stories. In Amy Tan’s novel The Bonesetter’s Daughter‚ the main female characters are Ruth and Lu Ling

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    lifetimes. From a mother to a child‚ a friend to one another‚ or a sister to a brother‚ kin and friendships possess a powerful position in lives in countless circumstances— whether good or bad. In the brilliant novel The Valley of Amazement‚ written by Amy Tan and published in 2013‚ it depicts how relationships are a significant aspect of our lives and they affect us all throughout our lives. This book conveys the impact relationships possess throughout lives and that they are not easily discarded because

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    Lit Analysis: Two kinds by Amy Tan Two kinds represents the two kinds of daughters. A daughter who is obedient‚ who follows her mother’s suggestions and a daughter who follows what’s on her own mind. This story will help you find your own identity in this complicated world. The story represent the relationship between the daughter and mother and the relationship between the traditinal practices of chinese and the modern world. The mother really what her daughter to succeed in her undetermined talent

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    Reading report: Two Kinds by Amy Tan A summary of the passage Two kinds‚ one of the short stories in The Joy Luck Club‚ by Amy Tan‚ first published in 1989‚ vividly displays a bittersweet relationship between Jing-mei‚ the narrator and protagonist‚ and her mother Mrs. Woo‚ and explores conflicts between a Chinese mother and her disobedient Americanized daughter. The story happened in the Chinatown in San Francisco throughout the 1950s and maybe the early 1960s. It begins with Jing-mei and her

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    English 2 Honors Mr. Amy 11 September 2014 Poem Analysis The poems “We Grow Accustomed to the Dark”‚ by Emily Dickinson‚ and “Acquainted with the Night”‚ by Robert Frost both explain each author’s point of view in regards to darkness and night. While Emily Dickinson uses uplifting diction to portray darkness as moments in our life when we are uneasy‚ Robert Frost recalls his personal accounts to detail night as a constant state of isolation. Dickinson’s poem conveys a positive tone‚ one that

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