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Acceptance in Fish Cheeks by Amy Tan Analysis
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Fish Cheeks Brief Summary Fish Cheeks by Amy Tan is a story about a Chinese-American girl, Amy, who had a crush on the Minister’s son, Robert, who is a Caucasian-American. On Christmas Eve, the minister’s family was invited by Amy’s parent for dinner. Amy’s family prepared a Christmas Dinner – Chinese Style! This worried Amy…
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Mother Tongue
Hence, often times as individuals we feel the need to compromise the way in which we communicate our ideas so that we can appeal to the views of the majority. Two authors explore how their attempt to compromise almost caused them to become detached from their roots. In “Mother Tongue,” by Amy Tan, Tan talks…
Analysis of “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan: DRAFT
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Mother Tongue
Tongue is about the authors struggles with her linguistic identity, her mothers ‘fractured” or “broken” variation of English and the relationship with her mother. At the beginning of the piece we are told about the different types of English she would speak with her mother and with everyone else; we are then told how English…
“Fish Cheeks” by Amy Tan
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Using details and quotations from Amy Tan’s “Fish Cheeks”, explain, discuss and evaluate the theme of the story. One of the difficulties that immigrants face when they come to live in America is dealing with the differences between the cultures of their old home to that of the new one. It is even harder for…
Analysis of Amy Tan’s and James Baldwin’s Works
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Bismillah hir-Rahman nir-Raheem. Rhetorical Analysis: Amy Tan’s Mother Tongue” vs. James Baldwin’s “If Black English Isn’t a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?” In this essay, I have compared the rhetorical analysis of Amy Tan’s Mother Tongue” with James Baldwin’s “If Black English Isn’t a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is?” In her essay Mother…
Analysis of “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan
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Mother Tongue
Amy Tan describes her relationship with her mother, who speaks “broken” English. Essentially, Amy ending up changing her style of writing because of her mother, who changed Amoy’s perception of language. In the beginning of her life, Amy was always ashamed and embarrassed because of her mother; her mother, in speaking broken English, would often…
| born | February 19, 1952 (age 69 years), Oakland, CA |
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| description | Amy Ruth Tan is an American author known for the novel The Joy Luck Club, which was adapted into a film of the same name in 1993 by director Wayne Wang. |
| books | The Joy Luck Club 1989, The Kitchen God's Wife 1991, The Bonesetter's Daughter 2001 |
| education | Linfield University, San José State University, Peterson High School |
| quotations | “We dream to give ourselves hope. “If you can’t change your fate, change your attitude.” “Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.” “Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.” “Everyone must dream. “Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. |
| information | Short biography of Amy TanTanya Tan was born in Oakland, California, on February 19, 1952. Her parents, Daisy and John Tan, had emigrated to the United States from China in the late 1940s. Tan’s mother, who had been a student at the University of California, Berkeley, before the family’s move, became a Baptist minister after they settled in Oakland. Her father found work as an electrical engineer.Tan was the middle child and only daughter in a family of three children. Her brother, Peter, was born in 1955, and her brother John, who was developmentally disabled, was born in 1957. The family spoke both English and Chinese at home.Tan’s parents had high expectations for their children. They pushed Tan to excel in her studies and to behave properly. Tan struggled in school and was often teased by her classmates because she was Chinese. When she was eight years old, she was hit in the head by a baseball, and she began to experience seizures. As a result, she had to miss a lot of school and was often tutored at home.Despite her challenges, Tan graduated from high school in 1969. She then attended Linfield College in Oregon, where she studied English and psychology. She transferred to San Jose State University in California after one year, and she graduated with a bachelor’s degree in English and linguistics in 1974. After college, Tan worked as a technical writer for a computer company. In 1977, she married Lou DeMattei, an accountant. The couple had two daughters, Sophia and Daisy.In the 1980s, Tan began to write fiction. Her first book, The Joy Luck Club, was published in 1989. The book, which tells the stories of four Chinese-American mothers and their daughters, was a bestseller. It was made into a movie in 1993.Tan’s second novel, The Kitchen God’s Wife, was published in 1991. Her third novel, The Hundred Secret Senses, came out in 1995. All three of these books were made into movies.Tan’s fourth novel, The Bonesetter’s Daughter, was published in 2001. In 2003, she published the book Saving Fish from Drowning, and in 2005, she came out with the novel The Opposite of Fate. Her most recent novel, Saving Fish from Drowning, was published in 2009.Tan has also written two children’s books, The Moon Lady (1992) and Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat (1994), which was made into a television series.Tan lives in Sausalito, California, with her husband and two daughters. Important informationSpouse: Lou DeMattei (m. 1974) Parents: Daisy Li, John Tan Siblings: John Tan Jr., Peter Tan, Yuhang Wang, June Wang, Tina Eng, Lijun Wang Movies and TV shows: The Joy Luck Club 1993, Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir 2021, Sagwa The Chinese Siamese Cat 2001 – 2002 |
