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English Language: Tan and Baldwin

because when I was growing up, my mothers limited English limited my perception of her. I was ashamed of her English. I believed t...

Kim Chernin's In My Mother's House

shtetl, the Jewish ghetto, had become unbearable under Tsarist rule. Chernin recognized that the women of her family had an abund...

Identity Formation for Girls

A 3 page essay on 3 narratives. There is a bond between mothers and daughters that is typically more intense throughout the lifesp...

The Joy Luck Club, a Film Review

This film review pertains to the "Joy Luck Club," which premiered in 1993 and was directed by Wayne Wang. The reviewer discusses t...

Joy Luck Club Themes

This 5 page paper gives an overview of the themes within the book The Joy Luck Club. This paper includes a discussion of strong wo...

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...

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...

Comparative Analysis of Min Zhan Lu's From 'Silence to Words' and Amy Tan's 'Mother Tongue'

written. As the two essays continue they build in their complexity where language is concerned. Tan states, "a speech filled with...

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...

Character, Setting, and Culture in 'A Pair of Tickets' by Amy Tan

In five pages this story featured in The Joy Luck Club is analyzed in terms of the connection that exists between characters and c...

'Two Kinds' by Amy Tan and Identity

took the piano lessons and began, at the recital, to feel some powerful connection with the music, and then failed. She would neve...

Amy Tan and Nancy McCabe

when she fails-according to them-it overwhelms her and undermines her sense of self and her self-esteem ("Meeting Sophie"). The "...

Relationship Between Mother and Daughter in Warrior Woman by Maxine Hong Kingston

duality of the cultures are reflected in various ways by Kingston, the constant switching between myth and reality, Chinese emotio...

Chinese American Woman and the Conflict of Dual Roles

on the outside. Her only exposure to American lifeways, in fact is that she sees infiltrating her home through my daughter and in...

A Review of the Print and Film Versions of The Joy Luck Club

A 6 essay comparing and contrasting the film version of Amy Tan's popular book and the book. The essay emphasizes Hollywood's ten...

Short Stories Analyzed from Pickering's Anthology

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...

Success of Children and Parental Influence

In five pages this paper discusses how parental understanding is crucial to children's success in a consideration of Gwendolyn Bro...

An Address of Four Specific Questions in Literature

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...

The Picture of Dorian Gray Characters' Approach to Art and Life

and how they interpret life and art. In focusing on this subject we incorporate two essays which discuss aspects of art and life f...

The Life and Art of Amy Tan

little pleasure from drafting speeches for corporate executives," working as much as ninety hours a week because she could not see...

Ethnicity in Paradise by Toni Morrison, The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, and Quicksand by Nella Larsen

is the daughter of a white mother and a black father. Although her father does not take an active role in her life his presence i...

Amy Tan and a Ticket to China

beings can sink. On December 9, 1937, Japanese troops attacked the city of Nanking; on the 13th, the "6th and 16th Divisions of th...

Jing-Mei Woo’s Personality Traits in Amy Tan’s “Two Kinds”

When Jing-Mei fell short of achieving the lofty goal her mother set for her, her insecurity intensified. After seemingly endless ...

Sam's Club (Web Site Review)

reveal different offerings such as health care, optical, and auctions. The auction area for example is something much like eBay wh...

Review of Abu-Jaber's The Language of Baklava

a memory. He cook to remember" (Abu-Jaber 190). Food is also a means of conveying love-"To my mind, this is the best way to show...

Ursula Hegi's Floating in My Mother's Palm, Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, and Mothers and Daughters

not acknowledge Pecola as her daughter, and Pecola does not avow Pauline as her mother. Distance is quite evident in this so-calle...

Mothers and Daughters in the Works of Dorothy Allison, Sylvia Plath, and Edith Wharton

Relationships between mothers and daughters are contrasted and compared as they are represented in Bastard Out of Carolina by Doro...

Dead Mother's Presence and Influence in Nancy Miller's 'Prologue: Writing a Parent's Death' and the Film The Joy Luck Club

In six pages this paper discusses the profound influence exerted by dead mothers upon their daughters in these examples. Two sour...

Is Amy Tan's Life Like 'The Red Candle?'

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...

A Comparative Analysis of William Faulkner's 'Barn Burning' and Amy Tan's 'Two Kinds'

The way in which protagonists in these respective short stories discover they are different than what their parents want them to b...