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Review of Amy Tan's Novel The Joy Luck Club

The link between the two groups was that of mother and daughter, four descended from four. Despite the mother daughter bo...

Identity and American Assimilation in My Antonia by Willa Cather and The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

the daughters have difficulty understanding their mothers past lives and their perspectives on their daughters lives. The daughter...

Parr, Sutherland, and Bullen Article Analysis on Urban and Rural Children's Labor and Economic Responsibilities

or wages in order to sustain the family lifestyle. In all cases, middle and upper class children who do not have the same labor ob...

'Good Country People' by Flannery O'Connor and Theology

which is clearly understandable, yet she has not used her intelligence to rise above it all and find truth. She cannot exhibit kin...

Cultural Relativism According to Rachels and Williams

race "at the mercy of machines" (Joy, 2000). The kind of panicky point of view maintained by Joy as a result of the constantly im...

Wang's The Joy Luck Club Film and the Mythological Approach

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 ...

Madness And Depression As Common Literary Themes

for the best. Soon, however, a sudden sense of calm overcomes her as she whispers "free, free, free" (Chopin PG). Mrs. Mal...

Two Novels on Female Relationships and Power

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...

Behavioral Changes in Families With Newborn Siblings, a Case Study

development theory provides for a number of beneficial elements that will ultimately help bring about positive change in her abili...

Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club and Symbolism

play, the power in this contest lies with Waverly. But her mother is jealous of the girls success (not an unusual reaction), and ...

Women in Canada 1945-1980

always the reality as many people rented homes, lived in homes that were in great need of repair and essentially lived in harsh co...

Joy Harjo and the Dawn Butterflies

a poem. It is a series of these paragraphs, each building on the previous one until the reader can form a picture of what has happ...

Hybridized Identity and Canada's Little Tolerance

the pain and suffering forced upon the Japanese Canadians after a political panic swept through post-Pearl Harbor. Their experien...

Amy Tan's Short Story 'Two Kinds'

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...

The Cattle Industry of Argentina

months ago resulted in several of Argentinas promising industrial players exiting the country to move to lower-cost Brazil (Anonym...

Character in 'Good Country People' by Flannery O'Connor

and the intellectual mask revealed in the changing of her name. "She considered the name her personal affair. She had arrived at...

Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Canadian Societal Changes

subsistence base to an industrial one set in motion a number of societal factors which had to be dealt with. Masses...

Childhood Loss in Obasan and The Stone Angel

Isolation, privation and loss in childhood are major themes in literature. This report discusses the work of two Canadians, Joy Ko...

Fyodor Dostoevsky and Hermann Hesse on Consciousness's Pain and Joy

In seven pages this report examines the pain and the joy of the human consciousness as expressed in the Underground Man of Dostoev...

Joy Kogawa's Obasan and Gabrielle Roy's Tin Flute

ones. It is a family where the father is always having a problem finding steady work, and a family where one of the daughters, Flo...

The Joy Luck Club and Issues of Gender, Class, and Race

In five pages this paper relates scenes from the The Joy Luck Club film to Race, Class, and Gender An Anthology in order to provi...

'The Way of Duty' and 'Mary Silliman's War'

This paper consists of 6 pages and compares the book The Way of Duty by Joy and Richard Buel and the film version, Mary Silliman's...

An Idealistic Literary Vision of America

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...

An analysis of Beethovern's Music in Immortal Beloved

through the use of rolling chords that softly underscore the melody line in the treble, while octaves sound in the bass like dista...

Gunther/Death Be Not Proud

A 3 page book review of John Gunther's memoir of his son's illness and death. The title of this book is drawn from John Donne's Me...

Amy Tan: "Two Kinds"

magazines; these tests are things like name the capitals of the states and so on (Tan, 1989). She hopes that Jing-mei will demonst...

"Obasan"

work on a road gang, where his frail health will ultimately doom him, the girl is raised by her aunt and uncle, and it is this aun...

Profile of an Equitable Math/Science Classroom

and "facilitate the integration of all member of the class into learning activities" (Wallace). A particular evocative suggestion ...

Storytelling: A Gathering of Old Men" and "The Joy Luck Club"

Communism, many in this new generation of Chinese-Americans wanted nothing more than to distance themselves as far as possible fro...

Investment Risk

the potential of the company. In addition to the financial performance measured by ratios such as profit margins, the investors wi...