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In 10 pages this paper analyzes the novel by Amy Tan in terms of how it presents the Chinese mother and Chinese American daughters...
11). After this section the dinner party clearly moves to the Drawing-Room wherein a woman who sits with fire reflecting her jewel...
when she fails-according to them-it overwhelms her and undermines her sense of self and her self-esteem ("Meeting Sophie"). The "...
a story about meeting people and finding some sort of closure on the past wherein her mother lost her two daughters, and Tan findi...
was arrested by the cultural revolutionary forces and tortured for several months (Zhang 14). Otherwise, there was "usually enough...
illusion of democratic choice by parents of children who are fed up and frustrated with the local school system. Furthermo...
that is part of mine. But when she was born, she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away from me since" (T...
just get the story out. In fact, many novelists and short story writers are storytellers. They simply tell a story. That is all th...
the experiences their protagonists have growing up as young, ethnic women in America. However, the relationship between the fictio...
be successful in many ways. For example, at times she seems embarrassed by her mother and her use of the English language which ...
Americas historical experience with race, ethnicity, and/or gender. Who could be more appropriate for this task than one of our c...
as offer a connecting force to the overall symmetrical representation of their social impression. Mishima utilizes a combination ...
because her mother ended up marrying Donnas former lover. In an ironic twist of fate, therefore, Donnas lover ended up becoming he...
a stake in his hen-pen and like any cock, his hair was up about it" (Head 70). He returns home to reestablish his "claim" on his "...
that reveals to the reader a great deal about the characters involved. Pelagea is deeply in love with her husband, Yegor Anton Che...
Ross describes Isabel is similar to the way in which Martha, the narrative voice in "A Field of Wheat" endows this cash crop on wh...
assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression -- a slight hyster...
story is a folktale, and begins with a farmer who promises his employee he will give him a heifer in exchange for his work, then t...
friend have many things they are experiencing, one of the most important being the changes they are facing in junior high school w...
of community is under discussion. When asked if members of the community "look like you," its likely that the discussion centers ...
I smiled and nodded, but I wasnt sure if he was offering me his seat or just making a general observation. "Come on," he said. "...
33). This quotation indicates the precision with which Poe crafted his stories. Each word and image is chosen with care and, coll...
our traditional notions regarding love and romance. She doesnt want any one "box" to define love or sex. The lesbian with a man ...
comes to bail him out is tied to a tree in the jails courtyard and tortured; finally the ordeal ends when Mr. Chiu signs a false c...
men, and it was known that he drank with the younger men in the Elks Club--that he was not a marrying man" (Faulkner). This can be...
different we have no possible common ground, we can also justify destroying them. This is why we never consider enemy combatants a...
Short story success is based on a variety of factors, and this paper examines those elements. For example, the use of surprise an...
of superstition that he is there to stamp out. He suggests that the villagers build a new path skirting the school grounds; he rem...
It does not necessarily make men evil or bestial, but it does recognize that we live in a patriarchal society and that the structu...
In six pages this short story considers the author's diagnosis for what is ailing the Caribbean culture and how it can be cured as...