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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...

Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club and Erich Fromm

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

James McBride's The Color of Water and Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Short Story Analysis of 'Two Kinds' by Amy Tan

The conflict between mother and daughter and the importance of the last paragraph of the short story are the focus of this paper t...

Cultural Meanings of Silence

things for the good of all the community, and that winning is good for all, not just the individual. There are apparently...

After the Blackbird Whistles Analysis

This essay presents a review and analysis of a journal article entitled "After the Blackbird Whistles: Listening to Silence in Cla...

Personal Morality and Life's Meaning

In nine pages this paper examines the role of personal morality in attaching meaning to life in a comparative analysis of Meno and...

Comparative Analysis of Voltaire's Candide, Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

In five pages this paper examines how society changed from individual acceptance to individual oppression in a comparative analysi...

War and Its Futility as Conveyed by Poetry

In five pages this paper analyzes war's futility in a comparative poetic analysis of 'Poor Man' and 'WPA.'...

An Examination of Red Azalea by Anchee Min

in Shanghai and how quickly she had to take responsibility. She writes, "I was an adult since the age of five" (1). She goes on to...

Contemporary Law v. Pre 1700 Law

of settling a dispute. In fact, during King Henry IIs reign (1133-1189), "no other legal means was recognized for the settlement ...

Violence in Kaplan's 'Doe Season' and Jackson's 'The Lottery'

In five pages the violence associated with ritual is examined in this comparative analysis of these stories by Kaplan and Jackson....

Comparative Analysis of William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury and Nathaniel Hawthorne's House of the Seven Gables

This paper considers the similar falls of each family in a comparative analysis of these novels by Nathaniel Hawthorne and William...

Thematic Analysis of Edith Wharton's The House of Mirth and Ethan Frome and “The House of Mirth”: The Themes of Loneliness, Isolation, and Silence

on his feelings because of the societal mores of his day. The closest town, Starkefield, symbolizes these mores. Central to the ...

Differences in Gender in the Peasant Residences of Central Europe and Southeast Asia

tended to marry much earlier in Europe than in Asia. Both peasant groups seemed to have grown grain crops: rice in Asia and whea...

Qualitative and Quantitative Research Studies

At the same time, it is also the case that Black women...