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who is not incredibly involved in her one daughters life. That daughter is Dee. The other daughter, Maggie, lives with her and the...
as the fact that Dee has left home and created a new persona for herself, thus trying to deny who and what she is. She is no longe...
This paper presents discussion of "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker, "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan, "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner, ...
is the world of the domestic. That is domestic in the terms of one who serves, as well as domestic in the terms of limited to hou...
In eight pages these texts by Alice Walker, Mary Louise Pratt, and Alice Walker are examined in terms of unconscious and 'magical'...
In eight pages the complex relationships between Asian mothers and their American daughters as described in Maxine Hong Kingston's...
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...
and how they interpret life and art. In focusing on this subject we incorporate two essays which discuss aspects of art and life f...
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...
A 6 essay comparing and contrasting the film version of Amy Tan's popular book and the book. The essay emphasizes Hollywood's ten...
In five pages this paper discusses how parental understanding is crucial to children's success in a consideration of Gwendolyn Bro...
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...
little pleasure from drafting speeches for corporate executives," working as much as ninety hours a week because she could not see...
structure. "First Confession" recounts the events of a brief period in Jackies life. Therefore, Jackies perspective does not alter...
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 ...
play, the power in this contest lies with Waverly. But her mother is jealous of the girls success (not an unusual reaction), and ...
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...
magazines; these tests are things like name the capitals of the states and so on (Tan, 1989). She hopes that Jing-mei will demonst...
of the nation, America is and was considered a land where someone could be anything they wanted, and they could succeed and be ric...
Mothers and daughters are perhaps, first and foremost, women. And, as women they are often stuck in many social categories as well...
beings can sink. On December 9, 1937, Japanese troops attacked the city of Nanking; on the 13th, the "6th and 16th Divisions of th...
When she disappoints her mother by failing one of her tests, she acknowledges her mothers failed hopes, but she also sees her "pro...
because when I was growing up, my mothers limited English limited my perception of her. I was ashamed of her English. I believed t...
When Jing-Mei fell short of achieving the lofty goal her mother set for her, her insecurity intensified. After seemingly endless ...
she thinks her daughter should be doing. She tells her daughter "Only ask you be your best" (Tan). The author who discusses ambi...
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...
written. As the two essays continue they build in their complexity where language is concerned. Tan states, "a speech filled with...
reader watches as a mother tries desperately to give her daughter all the advantages that she never had, reliving, to some extent,...
a person tried hard, anything could be accomplished. Therefore, she saw it as her duty to lead her daughter towards becoming an A...
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...