Essays on Amy Tan

In the text ‘Learning to Read’ by Malcolm X, and in the text ‘Mother Tongue’ by Amy Tan, both authors similarly present the topic of education. Malcolm X expresses the difficulties he experienced in obtaining a self-taught higher education and being impacted by others. On…

People should find their own cultural identities and feel proud of and empowered by their origin and identity. However, It is important to acknowledge that once people immigrate and immerse in a new culture, it is more challenging for them to have a clear definition…

Introduction “Fish Cheeks” by Amy Tan and “Museum” by Naomi Shihab Nye written by two authors experiences in their teenage years. Both stories tell about teenage feelings of embarrassment. The main characters in both stories experience different circumstances but indeed similar feelings. The two stories…

Assimilation, for the most part, means that, over the course of generations, you lose your own culture in exchange for the culture of the land that you have moved to. This very process is a major theme in The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan….

“Two Kinds” is a story about a mother wanting her daughter to be a child prodigy, but the daughter, Jing-Mei, doesn’t want this for herself. Jing-Mei doesn’t feel like she can amount to as much as her mother thinks she can. Her mother constantly barrages…

Xinran, a former radio presenter in China and currently a columnist indicated, “Men want a woman who is a virtuous wife, a good mother, and can do all the housework like a maid. Outside the home, she should be attractive and cultivated, and be a…

Foreigner Code-switching Foreigners in a new setting are faced with a very tough situation that can go either good or bad, and dictate the rest of their time in their setting. With transitioning to a new place being seen as either hit or miss, it…

AMY TAN….Review Amy Tan’s article, ‘Mother Tongue’ informs us of her love for the language. It tells us of how fascinated she has been by the language in her daily life. Amy spends lots of time deliberating on how powerful the language can be, with…

The Joy Luck Club: Lost and Found In The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, the daughter of Suyuan, Jing-Mei Woo (aka “June”), experiences many different types of losses to which she later finds answers for her prying need for identity through an extraordinary journey…

The Kitchen God’s Wife by Amy Tan is a moving novel that explores Chinese culture and the role of women in the time of World War II. Throughout the narrative, Winnie Louie recounts her past as Weili in an effort to be truthful to her…