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or worse. Immigrants leave their families and their ways of life, among all else, only to come to a new country and experience loss of identity and difficulty assimilating to a whole new, obscure culture. In the novel, The Joy Luck Club, the author, Amy Tan writes about the personal stories of four pairs of Asian immigrant mothers and their second generation daughters. Tan poetically depicts the struggles of both the daughters and mothers with cultural values, language, and identity. While…

Anne’s relationship with her mother is not the best mother, daughter relationship there ever was. Anne thinks that her mom tries to get into her business and then is never on her side when there is an argument. Anne is maturing in regards to her relationship with her mother by trying to change her actions with her mother, changing her attitude about her mother, and getting wiser about situations. The first example of Anne is maturing is changing herself. Anne had one day looked in her diary…

on society. People that don’t have as many life experiences will keep a general perspective on the world, while others whom experience many more will be bound to have a varied outlook on what’s going on around them. In the short story “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan, the mother’s life experiences differ from those of the daughter, causing great conflict between the two. Another example comes from “Two Ways to Belong in America” by Bharati Mukherjee. In this story, two alike sisters venture off into their…

would be uncharacteristic. I will argue that Mxolisi’s key role in the "raging storm of the Black Youth" and the years of oppression were the leading factors to the murder of Amy Biehl, and under normal circumstances, he would not have committed the crime. In order to fully understand how the “raging…

In “Fish Cheeks”, Amy Tan describes her Christmas eve dinner as catastrophic, being that she was fourteen, and the humiliation that she felt when her crush Robert, who was the minister’s son and his family had been invited to have a traditional Chinese meal with her family. But when she found out that he was invited to dinner, she felt so many emotions like fear, humiliation and discouragement and thoughts of what he might think of her and her families Chinese Christmas celebrations. “What…

by looking at a piece of literary work, whether it is in a cheerful sense or a dark and gruesome side of the picture. All-in-all, the focus of literary artwork ranges from many fields of societies and cultures in the world as shown in Two Kinds by Amy Tan in the shape of Jing-Mei (the modern-cum-fashionable representation of American society) and her opposite Jing-Mei's mother (The narrow-minded rigidity of ancient beliefs). Cultural conflicts include spiritual perceptions, cultural creeds, and…

Between cultures in different societies, a few concepts can't be translated. Some main reasons behind these occurrences are language barriers. Inside the memoir Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, the chinese idea of "loy luck" can't be translated. The lack of ability to decipher this idea due to language barriers is one of the primary themes of this novel since it powers the lack of comprehension between the girls and other people. The failure to decipher certain things causes a lack of ability to…

From the last chapters throughout the book, Anne has been awfully disrespectful and rude to her mother, but now as she grows up, she matures to be closer with her mother. She has used her words to express how she feels and how she has grown up through time. Anne shows her reason why she feels she has been better to her mother, but she writes everyday life things to show how she’s matured. As Anne begins to write things in her diary, she tells us how she flipped the pages and amongst all the…

The Joy Luck Club is a book that presents a conflict between Chinese immigrant mothers and their American-born daughters who have different language and culture. Mothers want to share their past with her daughters and daughters try to understand their mothers’ pasts with understanding the difference. I chose to write a letter because it is an appropriate text type that can express one’s opinion to give the advice of problem that daughters have and effectively convey one’s thought with the…

Amy Tan is a bestselling author born in 1952. She has written several novels focused on mother-daughter relationships. In Mother Tongue, Tan analyzes the different “Englishes” she uses in everyday life and why some are considered better than others. Tan’s mother, a Chinese immigrant, speaks in what some call a “broken” form of English (543). She claims her mother is treated unfairly because of her fractured language. Because Tan grew up speaking the English of her mother, she could understand…