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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...

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...

A Comparison of 'Two Kinds' by Amy Tan and 'First Confessions' by Frank O'Connor

structure. "First Confession" recounts the events of a brief period in Jackies life. Therefore, Jackies perspective does not alter...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Chinese Immigrant Mothers

of the nation, America is and was considered a land where someone could be anything they wanted, and they could succeed and be ric...

Amy Tan’s Two Kinds: Mothers and Daughters

Mothers and daughters are perhaps, first and foremost, women. And, as women they are often stuck in many social categories as well...

Amy Tan's Two Kinds

When she disappoints her mother by failing one of her tests, she acknowledges her mothers failed hopes, but she also sees her "pro...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Self Actualization: Maslow, Rogers, Fromm and Kelly

shaping our self actualization but also emphasized that the environment and our interaction with it was constantly changing (Roger...

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...

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...

Adult Personality Understanding and the Psychological and Humanistic Theories of Erich Fromm

In eight pages this paper discusses the social development and character theories of Erich Fromm that provide considerable insight...

Virtuous Act of Disobedience

In six pages the virtues of disobedience are celebrated with an incorporation of the essay 'Disobedience as a Psychological and Mo...

Overview of Materialism

In five pages this paper examines To Have or To Be by Erich Fromm in this consideration of materialism that analyzes and answers a...

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...

Walker, Pearson, Frankl, Miller, and Fromm on Identity and Meaning

In 5 pages these 20th century writers and thinkers are examined regarding their interpretations of identity and life's meaning in ...

Motivation of Death

In four pages death as a motivator is considered within the context of The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness by Erich Fromm, The An...

Erich Fromm, Karl Marx, and a Contemporary Concept of Human Nature

the most important fact for the student to understand is what Fromm explains in the following section of Marxs Concept of Man (196...

Generation Representation in Amy Tan's Short Story 'Two Kinds'

a person tried hard, anything could be accomplished. Therefore, she saw it as her duty to lead her daughter towards becoming an A...

A Psychoanalytical Theory and Theorist Overview

advent, Freuds work represented an innovative approach to the problems which had plagued mankind practically since the beginning o...

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...

Literary Analysis of Amy Tan's 'Two Kinds'

reader watches as a mother tries desperately to give her daughter all the advantages that she never had, reliving, to some extent,...