Tan’s Joy Luck Club and Alexie’s Smoke Signals communicate the racialized struggles that some communities face when reconciling individual and cultural identities in America’s new racial paradigm and the difficulty of transcending stereotypes. While Tan’s Chinese women struggle to assimilate and Alexie’s Native men struggle to maintain Indian identities in a segregated community, stereotypes nevertheless frustrate their efforts. Protagonists in Tan and Alexie’s stories address the inadequacy of language
The book The Joy Luck Club, is a collection of short stories by the writer Amy Tan, and explores themes of family, Chinese-American culture, and strong women. This collection has many short stories that are examples of heroines and have marriage problems, family issues, and even anorexia. The main characters in this book, are strong, intelligent, and interesting women, that try to overcome their problems and save each other from heartache and even death. The modern example of a heroine in my
In the novel The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan depicts the lives of four Chinese mothers with their American born daughters. In this novel, the story portrays the obstacles and hardships both the mother and daughter had to go through. One of the key problems all the mother-daughter pair had was the inability to communicate well with each other. Because of the inability to communicate and to express their emotions consequently leads to conflict and causes a strain in their relationships. Throughout this
In the story “Two Kinds”, the narrator Amy Tan talked about her relationship with her mother and how she viewed the older and younger generations of Chinese American families. The setting of the story helps bring an understanding of each character. Even though there are various types of setting used in this story, this piece is specifically going to talk about the cultural setting. Cultural setting is divided into two parts; physical and nonphysical setting. Physical cultural setting is the dialogue
Shame, in Amy Tan’s situation, comes from her fear of being different, and her nervousness about how Robert will think of her and her unusual culture. After the meal, Amy’s mom tells her her “only shame is to have shame,” implying that Amy shouldn’t be ashamed of herself, and if she is, then she should be ashamed, since being different isn’t a bad thing. Amy finds herself ashamed of how different she is, though her parents view the Chinese culture as normal and think it makes their daughter unique
In The Joy Luck Club, a cultural novel by Amy Tan, the major social issue is focused around the aberration and relationship of Chinese cultured immigrant mothers and their Americanized daughters. The four mothers in this novel all came from horrendous pasts and tried to leave it behind as they traveledto America for a chance at a better life. The Daughter's in the novel live typical American life. To explain the culture and indifference linking the women, Tan uses numerous amounts of literary techniques
men work outside of the home, as he does, while women like Jennie, his sister, and Mary, the nanny, are likely in the house were showed in the story (kerr). You could clearly see in the story that he loves his wife and depends on her for his personal joy because he does want his wife to get better so he is could prove to himself that is method and ways are working. But Yet Kerr stated, “He is not capable to resolve her original needs with his own rationality or prejudiced outlooks of the time period”
The American Dream The American Dream, coming to America to escape the life you had before and live the life that you and your children want to live. In Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club An-Mei Hsu and Rose Hsu Jordan are one of the four mother and daughter pairs in The Joy Luck Club. The mothers and daughters face different problems and faces those problems in different ways. An-mei grew up in Ningpo, China with her uncle, aunt, and grandmother and later moved in with her mother
There are two kinds of people in the short story “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan. Some people may see it as one kind of person is very obedient and the other kind maybe a person is very independent and self-driven. Another point of view would be, some people are born with natural talent and some are not so blessed in the talent department. Luckily, both views are correct in this narrative. Amy Tan is trying to point these differences out in her title. In the world, there are many different types of people
Why are Asian children such hard workers? In the short story “Two kinds” Amy Tan answers this question by portraying an Asian mother and daughter and their conflicts growing up in a different culture. The mother and daughter really fight over the idea of change. They have a deep conflict over the value of hard work and the achievement of greatness. The same individuals try to blend their ideas of two different cultures of education and hard work. Each Jing-mei and her mother view their purpose in