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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...

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...

Contrasting Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club

In five pages this paper compares and contrasts what each author's intentions are in their respective works along with the sense o...

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...

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...

Ernesto Galarzo's The Barrio Boys and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club

These two novels are contrasted and compared in five pages with references made to Richard B. Rice, William A. Bullough and Richar...

Amy Tan's The Hundred Secret Senses, The Joy Luck Club, and Their Primary Themes

In six pages this paper discusses the themes of Chines culture, pride, and relationships between mother and daughter in a comparat...

Use of Stereotypes in Amy Tan's Joy Luck Club and Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin

In five pages this paper discusses how stereotypes are emphasized while appearing to eliminate them in these works by Stowe and Ta...

Amy Tan’s Two Kinds

she thinks her daughter should be doing. She tells her daughter "Only ask you be your best" (Tan). The author who discusses ambi...

Amy Tan's "Two Kinds" and Generational Turmoil

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...

Point of View in Amy Tan's 'The Rules of the Game' and in Ernest Hemingway's 'Hills Like White Elephants'

he urges Jig to have an abortion. Despite the fact that the man repeatedly says that he does not want Jig to do anything that sh...

Willa Cather, Gertrude Stein, and the Feminist Movement

of debt, or to make it possible for the younger children of the family to go to school"( Cather 172)...

Willa Cather, Toni Morrison, William Shakespeare and Truth Searching

relationship to his own sense of honor and integrity. In the beginning he had no doubts about getting his stepfather alone and kil...

A Comparative View of Female Protagonists

changes in her life have both positive and negative implications. At the onset of the story, Janie is a character who is unable t...

Short Fiction Characterization

humanity. The action is the medium by which the man learns, but it is the learning that makes the story fundamentally interesting....

'Shadows on the Rock' by Willa Cather

sack of flour, no gunpowder, or leather, or cloth, or iron tools" (Cather). He would see, "Not a letter, even -- no news of what w...

Comparing Fools Crow to My Antonia

and the culture in which she finds herself having to embrace. She is also alienated by her social class. Antonia, in contrast to J...

'The Sculptor's Funeral' by Willa Cather

by the men on the train platform, and then by the overly dramatic grief of Merricks mother. The contrast between the nature of Mer...

Lyrical Left Wing Greenwich Village Community

the writers within Greenwich Village had in the late 19th century and throughout the 20th century. The Greenwich Village writers i...

Relationships in My Antonia by Willa Cather

are shaped in childhood. Young Jim is himself is something of an immigrant, the proverbial stranger in a strange land, when he goe...

My Antonia

homesick. If we never arrived anywhere, it did not matter. Between that earth and that sky I felt erased, blotted out. I did not s...

Short Story Analysis: Three Literary Works

way his eyes move continually to the fact that he cannot stand to be touched: "Once, when he had been making a synopsis of a parag...

Cather: "O Pioneers!"

she and her brothers Oscar, Lou and Emil all have to work extremely hard, and Oscar and Lou resent her, though this isnt revealed ...

Tom Outlander and the Cave Dwellers

In 10 pages this paper examines the Tom Outlander tale's themes and cave dwellers in an analysis of The Professor's House by Willa...

Women's Conventional and Unconventional Roles in My Antonia by Willa Cather

by what lies beyond the obvious, not entirely confident that she is capable of dealing with the gender role she has been given....

U.S. Society and 'the Creative Outsider'

In five pages this paper examines the influence of the creative outsider in America in a consideration of the texts My Antonia by ...

The Red Badge of Courage, The Professor's House, and Individualism

In ten pages this paper presents a comparative analysis of individualism perceptions as reflected in these works by Stephen Crane ...

Jim Burden in My Antonia by Willa Cather

A character analysis of Jim Burden in My Antonia by Willa Cather is presented in a paper consisting of six pages. Six sources are...

The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather

come through art and through living the life of an artist. In the beginning we do not necessarily see that Thea herself is sure...

Values According to William Faulkner, Willa Cather, and D.H. Lawrence

sort of injustice, it would have engendered a certain amount of sympathy for him in the reader. Faulkner goes to great lengths to ...