YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Character Setting and Culture in A Pair of Tickets by Amy Tan
Essays 31 - 60
The way in which protagonists in these respective short stories discover they are different than what their parents want them to b...
These two novels are contrasted and compared in five pages with references made to Richard B. Rice, William A. Bullough and Richar...
a person tried hard, anything could be accomplished. Therefore, she saw it as her duty to lead her daughter towards becoming an A...
reader watches as a mother tries desperately to give her daughter all the advantages that she never had, reliving, to some extent,...
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...
meant to illustrate the dichotomy between and among all the interwoven traits attributed to a girl of her age. On the one hand, s...
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...
The link between the two groups was that of mother and daughter, four descended from four. Despite the mother daughter bo...
written. As the two essays continue they build in their complexity where language is concerned. Tan states, "a speech filled with...
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...
to the Co-Operative bank. It is not a problem isolated to the UK, this is being seen internationally, from Italy to the US differe...
In twelve pages this report discusses how the relationships between mother and daughter transcend everything including generation ...
In 10 pages this paper analyzes the novel by Amy Tan in terms of how it presents the Chinese mother and Chinese American daughters...
the freedom and opportunities offered by America. In other words, this immigrant mother means well. She simply wants her daughter ...
In eight pages Asian Americans are examined in terms of the contemporary issues that affect them and their images with cultural as...
In a paper that contains eight pages the inspiration writing has provided Amy Tan throughout her life is examined in essay 'Young ...
as offer a connecting force to the overall symmetrical representation of their social impression. Mishima utilizes a combination ...
In 5 pages this paper compares 'Two Kinds' by Amy Tan with 'The Stolen Party' by Liliana Heker in a consideration of how each depi...
when she fails-according to them-it overwhelms her and undermines her sense of self and her self-esteem ("Meeting Sophie"). The "...
truths with incredible power. For example, Hitler used language in an incredibly powerful way, playing on the truths of the people...
took the piano lessons and began, at the recital, to feel some powerful connection with the music, and then failed. She would neve...
who is not incredibly involved in her one daughters life. That daughter is Dee. The other daughter, Maggie, lives with her and the...
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...
just get the story out. In fact, many novelists and short story writers are storytellers. They simply tell a story. That is all th...
ending is quite compelling, letting on that the narrator is much more insightful than first appears. Certainly, the narrator is no...
an article entitled "Every Womans Dream," which appeared in April 7 edition of The Weekly (1954, p. 59). The student researching t...
front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...
Americas historical experience with race, ethnicity, and/or gender. Who could be more appropriate for this task than one of our c...
page. The use of negative space to enhance the darkness of the central image is important to creating a tone for the site, and th...