Amy Tan Essays

Listening, speaking, reading and writing are four of the most essential steps for people learning a new language. English is not my first language, it is my third, and I have spent a lot of time and effort to going through these steps. As an individual learning a new language, I can definitely say it […]

Amy Tan employs the device of thoughtful laughter in The Joy Luck Club to convey a message through humor. By using this technique, Tan effectively captures the reader’s attention and communicates an idea, whether it’s explicit or not. A prime example of this can be seen in the “Best Quality” chapter where the family is […]

Amy touches upon the subject of language barriers creating societal monsters. Amy Tan’s mother not being able to speak great English consistently had trouble communicating her thoughts and feelings towards strangers she met. Her accent was also a apart of It of the problem. Even with all that Amy could understand her mom perfectly. However […]

“Mother Tongue,” explains that different types of English affect someone’s response and attitude. Because Tan wrote this essay about her mother, she mainly describes the responses her mother gets with her broken English. Tan’ s purpose is to show how broken English speakers are dissuaded from perfecting it and h owe they are looked down […]

Oscar Wilde once said, “what seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise”. By getting through bitter trials, one is awarded with blessings that come in different forms and shapes. These trials can range from a wide variety of tasks such as learning to change one’s views or perspectives by becoming more […]

Maya Angelou’s Champion of the World and Amy Tan’s Fish Cheeks both trade with racial differences within America. Angelou’s piece presented what it was like for African-Americans during a important event in the center of the apartheid – the turn between Joe Louis, the World Champion. and his white rival. Through the usage of two […]

Amy Tan and Maya Angelou come from highly different civilizations. and seeking to experience accepted in American Culture. Both writers discuss a feeling of being an castaway and how their cultural differences set them apart. However. Amy Tan efficaciously uses narrative and description to picture her sense of isolation from the dominant American civilization. Angelou’s […]

An author’s cultural background can play a large part in the authors writing. Amy Tan, a Chinese-American woman, uses the cultural values of Chinese women in American culture in her novel, The Joy Luck Club. These cultural values shape the outcome of The Joy Luck Club. The two cultural value systems create conflict between the […]

Amy Tan, Frank O’Connor, and Tom Whitecloud explore similar themes in their stories despite their diverse backgrounds. They all focus on the challenges encountered by children who belong to a different culture than their own families.

In Amy Tan’s novel of conflicting cultures, The Joy Luck Club, the narrators contemplate their inability to relate from one culture to another. The novel is narrated by and follows the connected stories about conflicts between Chinese immigrant mothers and their American-raised daughters. Jing-mei, one of the daughters, has taken her mother’s place in a […]

Rhetorical Analysis of “Mother Tongue” written by Amy Tan “So easy to read”(p. 4). Amy Tan ends her essay, “Mother Tongue” with this short and even grammatically wrong sentence. She tells us this mother’s brief review is a proof of success of her writing. Why does she think that easiness is an essence of her […]

Suyuan and Jing-Mei’s relationship in The Joy Luck Club In The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, Jing-Mei and her mother have a very rocky relationship. Tan develops a relationship between Suyuan and Jing-Mei that is distant in the beginning due to culture differences and miscommunication, but gradually strengthens with time and understanding. Both of […]