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In five pages this story featured in The Joy Luck Club is analyzed in terms of the connection that exists between characters and c...
beings can sink. On December 9, 1937, Japanese troops attacked the city of Nanking; on the 13th, the "6th and 16th Divisions of th...
him an hour just to move his head into the room. The protagonist exclaims, "Ha! Would a madman have been so wise as this?" which i...
her white friends would agree with her that she was about as Chinese as they were, indicating she really possessed little of that ...
a story about meeting people and finding some sort of closure on the past wherein her mother lost her two daughters, and Tan findi...
because when I was growing up, my mothers limited English limited my perception of her. I was ashamed of her English. I believed t...
When Jing-Mei fell short of achieving the lofty goal her mother set for her, her insecurity intensified. After seemingly endless ...
play, the power in this contest lies with Waverly. But her mother is jealous of the girls success (not an unusual reaction), and ...
two people who hold true to the notion that determination and hard work can get you ahead in the world of the American ideal. Gats...
magazines; these tests are things like name the capitals of the states and so on (Tan, 1989). She hopes that Jing-mei will demonst...
of the nation, America is and was considered a land where someone could be anything they wanted, and they could succeed and be ric...
Mothers and daughters are perhaps, first and foremost, women. And, as women they are often stuck in many social categories as well...
When she disappoints her mother by failing one of her tests, she acknowledges her mothers failed hopes, but she also sees her "pro...
little pleasure from drafting speeches for corporate executives," working as much as ninety hours a week because she could not see...
structure. "First Confession" recounts the events of a brief period in Jackies life. Therefore, Jackies perspective does not alter...
forced to make an inner journey that she was loathe to make. This is often a key component in the mythological heros quest. He or ...
In five pages Erich Fromm's theory on marketing orientation is applied to the character of Harold, husband of Lena, in Amy Tan's t...
and how they interpret life and art. In focusing on this subject we incorporate two essays which discuss aspects of art and life f...
An analysis of A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Necklace by Guy De Maupassant, Amy Tan's Young G...
In eight pages the complex relationships between Asian mothers and their American daughters as described in Maxine Hong Kingston's...
A 6 essay comparing and contrasting the film version of Amy Tan's popular book and the book. The essay emphasizes Hollywood's ten...
In five pages this paper discusses how parental understanding is crucial to children's success in a consideration of Gwendolyn Bro...
In five pages this paper discusses how stereotypes are emphasized while appearing to eliminate them in these works by Stowe and Ta...
In six pages this paper discusses the themes of Chines culture, pride, and relationships between mother and daughter in a comparat...
The way in which protagonists in these respective short stories discover they are different than what their parents want them to b...
These two novels are contrasted and compared in five pages with references made to Richard B. Rice, William A. Bullough and Richar...
Iin a paper consisting of six pages this essay discusses the short story in terms of how it reflects the author's own life. There...
In five pages this paper compares and contrasts what each author's intentions are in their respective works along with the sense o...
pick the right kind of prodigy" (Tan 53). Her mother tried different roles on Jing-mei to see which would fit. At first, she tried...
reader watches as a mother tries desperately to give her daughter all the advantages that she never had, reliving, to some extent,...