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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...

How Has The Internet Affected Life

eliminating any bias a person may gain by seeing the disability instead of the person (Cohn, 2000). Computers, fax machines, the ...

Wang's The Joy Luck Club Film and the Mythological Approach

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 ...

Joy Kogawa's Obasan and Gabrielle Roy's Tin Flute

ones. It is a family where the father is always having a problem finding steady work, and a family where one of the daughters, Flo...

Madness And Depression As Common Literary Themes

for the best. Soon, however, a sudden sense of calm overcomes her as she whispers "free, free, free" (Chopin PG). Mrs. Mal...

Cultural Relativism According to Rachels and Williams

race "at the mercy of machines" (Joy, 2000). The kind of panicky point of view maintained by Joy as a result of the constantly im...

Behavioral Changes in Families With Newborn Siblings, a Case Study

development theory provides for a number of beneficial elements that will ultimately help bring about positive change in her abili...

An Idealistic Literary Vision of America

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...

Soren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche on Joy, Will, and Knowledge

knowledge is not as important as faith. That is a significant difference between the two. At the same time, neither admits that hu...

Two Novels on Female Relationships and Power

that is part of mine. But when she was born, she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away from me since" (T...

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...

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...

'Good Country People' by Flannery O'Connor and Theology

which is clearly understandable, yet she has not used her intelligence to rise above it all and find truth. She cannot exhibit kin...

Identity and American Assimilation in My Antonia by Willa Cather and The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

the daughters have difficulty understanding their mothers past lives and their perspectives on their daughters lives. The daughter...

Anthropological Analysis of the 1992 Movie City of Joy

In five pages gender roles, subculture, cultural change, and ethnocentrism concepts are considered in this anthropological analysi...

Literature as the Continental Mirror of Africa's Struggles

In a paper consisting of three pages the African struggles are examined within the context of Buchi Emecheta's 'The Joys of Mother...

3 Short Stories and the Conflict Between Parents and Children

In seven pages this paper discusses parent and child conflicts and how they are portrayed in 'The Sky is Gray' by Ernest Gaines, '...

3 War Novels and Self Realization

and womanizing, punctuated only by bouts of warfare. It would be inaccurate to say that Frederick really believed in the war at ...

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...

The Writing Techniques Alice Walker Uses to Address Her Concerns

In six pages the ways in which Walker employs fiction to express her concern about specific issues and love of humanity are consid...

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...

American Daughters and Asian Mothers

In eight pages the complex relationships between Asian mothers and their American daughters as described in Maxine Hong Kingston's...

The Adoption of Older Children

In a paper consisting of five pages the challenges encountered when adopting older children is discussed along with situatioinal o...

Obasan by Joy Kogawa

In four pages this paper examines the importance of foreshadowing within the context of Joy Kogawa's Obasan. There are no other s...

Japanese Canadian Classifications in Obasan by Joy Kogawa II

In four pages this paper examines the different types of classifications of Japanese Canadians as represented in Obasan by Joy Kog...

Joy Imagery in the Poetry of John Keats and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

reinforce this impression, as do the alteration of four-stress lines and three-stress lines. We know without really analyzing it t...

Nigerian Characters in Two Novels

commanding warrior, whose exploits had become legendary among the Igbo villagers. Unfortunately, Okonkwo was more successful on...

Aunt Obasan and Aunt Emily in Obasan by Joy Kogawa

In five pages this paper presents a character analysis of Aunt Obasan and Aunt Emily as featured in Japanese Canadian author Joy K...

Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Canadian Societal Changes

subsistence base to an industrial one set in motion a number of societal factors which had to be dealt with. Masses...

Psychological Perspectives and Theories in The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

PG). The novelist has a distinctive talent when it comes to writing about the similarities and differences between and among the ...