YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan and Oppositions
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In eight pages these texts by Alice Walker, Mary Louise Pratt, and Alice Walker are examined in terms of unconscious and 'magical'...
In six pages this paper discusses the themes of Chines culture, pride, and relationships between mother and daughter in a comparat...
In five pages this paper discusses how the author portrays East and West cultural oppositions....
In a paper that contains eight pages the inspiration writing has provided Amy Tan throughout her life is examined in essay 'Young ...
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...
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 eight pages the complex relationships between Asian mothers and their American daughters as described in Maxine Hong Kingston's...
and how they interpret life and art. In focusing on this subject we incorporate two essays which discuss aspects of art and life f...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
beings can sink. On December 9, 1937, Japanese troops attacked the city of Nanking; on the 13th, the "6th and 16th Divisions of th...
and sends her to learn to play the piano from a neighbor, Mr. Chong. Jing-Mei resents the lessons but tolerates them because Mr. C...
she thinks her daughter should be doing. She tells her daughter "Only ask you be your best" (Tan). The author who discusses ambi...
written. As the two essays continue they build in their complexity where language is concerned. Tan states, "a speech filled with...
reader watches as a mother tries desperately to give her daughter all the advantages that she never had, reliving, to some extent,...
The link between the two groups was that of mother and daughter, four descended from four. Despite the mother daughter bo...
a person tried hard, anything could be accomplished. Therefore, she saw it as her duty to lead her daughter towards becoming an A...
a woman with a very strong sense of the Chinese culture. It is, in these respects, a novel that speaks of searching for identity a...