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Amy Tan's "The Kitchen God's Wife", 2007.
This paper analyzes the book 'The Kitchen God's Wife' by Amy Tan.
1,905 words (approx. 7.6 pages), 4 sources, MLA, £ 41.95
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In this article the writer notes that the main protagonists in 'The Kitchen God's Wife' by Amy Tan spend several decades fighting each other because of their differences that come from having completely different pasts. The writer explains that Winnie, the mother, was born and brought up in China and her daughter Pearl, lived all of her life in the United States. The writer then points out that when they finally begin to listen to each other, they realize that despite their different upbringing, they share more than they ever realized as women and mother and daughter. The writer concludes that with changing circumstances, the two are eventually able to begin to open up and peel away the layers that keep them apart.
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"Even if these two women were more open, their differences would have created barriers between them. Pearl, due to the death of her father when she was a teenager, has not completely grown up emotionally--despite the fact that she now is a wife and mother, herself. Her trauma has kept part of her from reaching maturity and being more patient and understanding of her mother. As children often do, she has a difficult time tolerating some of Winnie's personality traits and human quirks. Phil, Pearl's husband, who gets along well with his mother-in-law, tries to enhance the communication between the two women. He tells Pearl that she is being selfish and life is not always exactly as you want it. He is no more successful in bringing the mother and daughter together. In fact, in some ways he worsens the situation by making Pearl more resistant to change. Meanwhile, Winnie's experiences in the past have made her more negative and less patient overall with life. Whereas once she was a hopeful and happy young woman, she has turned into a much more fearful, superstitious and cautious individual."
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Amy Tan "The Kitchen God's Wife", 1995.
Examines the meaning of the mythical kitchen god, narration, Chinese culture and family relations.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 1 source, £ 38.95
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"The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between the figure of the kitchen god and the narrative as a whole in The Kitchen God's Wife (KG) by Amy Tan. The plan of the research will be to set forth the narrative context in which the kitchen god is explained in the novel, and then to discuss the role that the figure plays in elaborating the novel's underlying pattern of ideas and the means by which those ideas emerge.
The symbolic function of the kitchen god is established early in KG. The god is referred to in a more or less offhand manner by Winnie as "only a story," and then as the patron of luck. He is chiefly associated with living spaces--homes or shops--but his influence appears to permeate Chinese culture. As Winnie puts it, quoting the Jade Emperor of heaven upon providing the kitchen god with his divine mandate in the universe: "I make ..."
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The Kitchen God's Wife, 2008.
A discussion and analysis of Amy Tan's book "The Kitchen God's Wife".
874 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 1 source, APA, £ 21.95
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The paper is an examination of Amy Tan's book "The Kitchen God's Wife." Some of the elements discussed by the paper include cultural lessons, relationship lessons and lessons about learning how to live between two cultural beliefs and be content.
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"The story is between Pearl and her mother, who is named Winnie. Winnie is from the old country in China and a lot of the book takes the reader back in time to Winnie's childhood and the culture that she lived in during that time. At the time the book opens Pearl is grown up and married with two children of her own and they have decided to visit Winnie for a family wedding."
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"The Kitchen God's Wife"--A Review, 2007.
A review of Amy Tan's well-acclaimed novel "The Kitchen God's Wife."
1,729 words (approx. 6.9 pages), 5 sources, APA, £ 38.95
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This book review examines the nature of mother-daughter relationships and the Chinese immigrant experience as reflected in Any Tan's novel "The Kitchen God's Wife." The review discusses the common themes in Tan's novels, such as cultural conflict often seen between the generations. These themes are further analyzed in terms of the characters' personalities and experiences. The reviewer also considers some of the literary devices that the author used to illustrate these conflicts. The paper also cites various literary critics' opinions of the novel.
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"With these two elements in mind, this paper provides a discussion and analysis of the "immigrant experiences" of Weili and Pearl. While Pearl is already considered an assimilated member of the American culture, her identity as Chinese-American persists, making this 'immigrant experience' not only applicable to her mother, but to her as well. This paper posits that the immigrant experience is best demonstrated through two recurrent themes in the novel: cultural conflict and the persistence of reality over 'made-up' history, or fictional personal history."
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Kitchen God's Wife, 2007.
This paper discusses the book "The Kitchen God's Wife" by Amy Tan.
1,642 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 36.95
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In this article, the writer looks at the book "The Kitchen God's Wife" by Amy Tan. The writer points out that "The Kitchen Gods Wife" concerns a Chinese mother and American-raised daughter whom, like many mothers and daughters across the world, have kept secrets from each other. The writer discusses that as soon as the book opens up, Tan approaches the communication problem between Winnie and Pearl. The writer notes that Pearl, who appears to want to forget her Chinese roots, has had multiple sclerosis for seven years and has not yet told her mother. The writer notes that, similar to other mother/daughter pairs, once Pearl and Winnie do communicate, they are so much the better for it.
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"No one has a childhood without some kind of trauma, and each person handles it differently. Some people do not remember being abused as a child, and in their adult years wonder why they are depressed and have such low self-esteem. With help, they are able to get better as they deal with the past. Other people never face their past, and drown themselves in alcohol, or abuse their own children. Pearl has not yet dealt with her trauma--her father dying. For years, she has been holding in her sadness and anger at his leaving her. Much of this anger is directed to her mother. Why didn't her mother do something to keep him alive? An irrational thought, but children do believe that their parents have the ability to make things right. Pearl's nightmares about her father continue, because part of her refuses to say goodbye once and for all. Also, like the Kitchen God story, she has to admit she was wrong."
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"The Kitchen God's Wife", 2006.
A summary and review of Amy Tan's novel about an immigrant Chinese mother and her American-born daughter, "The Kitchen God's Wife".
1,691 words (approx. 6.8 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 37.95
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This paper summarizes and analyzes the story and main theme of Amy Tan's novel, "The Kitchen God's Wife". The paper explains that while the focus in the novel is on the mothers and daughters in the Chinese-American culture, its themes, and specifically its theme that food is used as a device to convey multiple messages, are universal.
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"Amy Tan creates in the novel the same sense of place and culture that characterized The Joy Luck Club. Once again, food serves many purposes. Among the most ubiquitous motifs in The Kitchen God's Wife is food and the activities that surround its preparation and consumption. In fact, the novel opens and closes with celebratory dinners, and similar feasts and meals mark crucial events in Winnie's story. Throughout the story food provides a sense of continuity, paints distinct images of a remembered past, helps reveal character traits, shows relationships, and establishes boundaries between cultures."
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"The Kitchen God's Wife", 2007.
This paper discusses "The Kitchen God's Wife" by Amy Tan.
1,148 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 3 sources, MLA, £ 27.95
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In this article, the writer relates that Amy Tan's "The Kitchen God's Wife" is the moving tale of a daughter finding the roots of her own undiscovered heritage, in a winding juxtaposition between cultural tradition and modern assimilation. The writer notes that the work reaffirms Tan's tradition of building narrative through cultural expressions of change and strong character development, among the young and the old. The writer points out that the family Tan describes could be any Chinese immigrant family, or at least that is the feeling the reader gets from the narrative. The writer concludes that the lives of these women may seem sensational when taken out of context, but woven into this narrative they are at once sensational and very real.
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"There is little more compelling than the reconnection of people who share a past, but who see a very different future because of the difficulty the generations have in communicating the past to the present generations and more importantly the difficulty the present generation has in hearing the messages of such a foreign expression of life."
"The older generations in Tan's works frequently and realistically were forced to make life altering decisions that only years of safety in America can buffer enough to allow to come out. Including unhappy and often violent marriages, unknown and often long dead children and family relationships altered in traditions to make possible the immigration to America."
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The Immigrant Experience in Amy Tan's Novels, 2000.
How Amy Tan explores the immigration experience as portrayed in her novel "Joy Luck Club" and short story "Two Kinds".
1,430 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 6 sources, £ 32.95
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This paper takes a look at how Amy Tan's stories and novels have shaped the American view of the experience of Asian-American immigrants. The paper looks at the contrasts that Amy Tan had to face, especially in terms of the clash with her mother's culture, and the confrontation of the experiences of Asian immigrants in American history.
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"A look at how Tan's stories and novels have shaped the American view of the experience of Asian-American immigrants. Looks at the contrasts the Amy Tan had to face, especially in terms of culture clash with her mother's culture, and Tan's confrontation of the experiences of Asian immigrants in American history."
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Amy Tan's Works, 2005.
A look at the main theme shared in three works by Amy Tan.
3,111 words (approx. 12.4 pages), 8 sources, MLA, £ 62.95
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This paper explores the dominant theme of mother-daughter conflict and fragmented cultural identity in Amy Tan's "The Joy Luck Club," "Two Kinds," and "The Kitchen God's Wife".
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"Waverly's mother, misunderstanding her daughter's angry outburst, thinks Waverly is saying she is ashamed of her Chinese mother, especially to be seen with her in public. But Waverly means simply that she would like her mother to stop bragging about her because she herself feels embarrassed by it. The misunderstanding brought about by this heated exchange, however, clouds the mother-daughter relationship for years afterward. Neither one can or will forget about it, even long after Waverly grows up and leaves home. To Waverly's Chinese mother, family solidarity and pride is her most important value. But to her American-born and thoroughly Americanized daughter, individuality and independence are far more important, and she resents what she sees as her mother's smothering attitude. In this early scene in the novel, Waverly is not in fact rejecting her mother, but instead simply asserting her own separateness from her, a distinction Waverly's mother finds impossible to understand."
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Amy Tan's "The Joy Luck Club", 2005.
This paper discusses the use of two forms of vision--mirrors and storytelling--in Amy Tan's "The Joy Luck Club" in relationship to the mother-daughter legacy.
1,390 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 3 sources, MLA, £ 32.95
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This paper explains that, in Amy Tan's "The Joy Luck Club", the mothers use the oral tradition of story-telling to cement, ameliorate or transform the trauma of their past lives in China to their daughters as a method for rewriting these stories of oppression and victimization into parables of self-affirmation and individual empowerment. The author points out that the motif of the mirror is a form of vision used often by Tan to allow the mothers and daughter to communicate. The paper concludes that this novel clearly demonstrates the usage of storytelling and mirrors as effective tools in creating bonds between mothers and daughter of each generation, which is self-perpetuating, even if unintentional.
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"In another story involving a mirror, mother is shocked to see that her married daughter has placed a mirrored armoire at the foot of the bed. This is bad feng shui. In feng shui, the Eastern art of placement, harmony must be created in an environment and any bad angles must be "cured". Sleeping with a mirror at the foot of your bed is said to frighten your essence and create bad energy. She is certain that the mirror will deflect all happiness from her daughter's marriage, so she "cures" the situation by giving her daughter a mirror to hang above the bed. This will reverse the bad luck and bring good "peach-blossom luck," the mother says. Such luck, she adds, will ensure a grandchild."
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Freedom in Amy Tan's Novels, 2006.
A look at the importance of individual freedom in novels by Amy Tan.
1,148 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 27.95
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This paper analyzes the theme of freedom found in novels by Amy Tan and, particularly, in her novel "The Joy Luck Club". The paper shows that, while all of Tan's novels emphasize this theme, "The Joy Luck Club", in particular, underscores how important individual freedom is even when it seems to come in conflict with one's duty to family.
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"In her novel, The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan stresses the importance of individual freedom more than duty to family in several stories. In "The Joy Luck Club," "The Red Candle," "Magpies," "Without Wood," and "Rice Husband," Tan emphasizes the importance of individual freedom in any culture. The women in these stories overcome difficult obstacles and emerge self-confident and proud. This is not to say that their struggles were easy. In fact, many of the women must face difficult situations with their mothers, which sometimes leads to conflict. Within these conflicts, we see how these problems can be solved through communication and understanding. While balance between duty to family and individual freedom can be difficult to find, the strong female characters in The Joy Luck Club prove that it is always are worthwhile venture."
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Engaging Our Hundred Secret Senses: Amy Tan, 2001.
This paper provides an examination of the soaring career, culture, and works of Chinese-American author Amy Tan with a special emphasis on her novel, "The Hundred Secret Senses".
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 10 sources, £ 50.95
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This paper examines the life, career and literature of best-selling Chinese-American author Amy Tan. The author focuses specifically on her novel "The Hundred Secret Senses", and examines the history of Chinese-American immigrants, the discrimination they were subjected to, and the pressures of assimilation into American culture. The paper also looks at the pull between Chinese tradition and American way of life, and how Tan struggles with this issue in her writing.
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"In only a handful of novels, Amy Tan has brought us the legends and stories of her background. She has introduced the American public to a new world of fiction, based on her own experiences mingled with the experiences of her ancestors in their beloved homeland of China . In these stories, she has shown herself to be a writer of uncommon technical skills, powers of observation, and richness of humanity, a combination of gifts that inspires her many readers to eager anticipation of her future works."
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Amy Tan, 2004.
This paper introduces, discusses, and analyzes the life and work of author Amy Tan.
1,987 words (approx. 7.9 pages), 6 sources, MLA, £ 43.95
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This paper provides a biography of the author, along with come critical reactions to some of her best-known works and a short analysis of "The Joy Luck Club," her first book. It explains how Amy Tan has become one of the most beloved Asian-American authors in America today. It shows how her moving novels open up Asian-American culture to many new readers and allow them to experience the joys and frustrations of Asian-Americans creating new lives for themselves in the United States.
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"Amy began her dreams of writing at a young age. She won an essay contest when she was only eight-years old, and she began to dream of a writing career after this, while her parents encouraged her to become a doctor or scientist and to play concert piano for a relaxing hobby. Tan lost both her brother and father to brain tumors when she was only fifteen, and after this, her mother simply returned completely to her Chinese customs, turning her back on American ways. Eventually, Tan's mother even left America, and took the children to Europe, where they eventually settled in Montreux, Switzerland."
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Amy Tan's "Two Kinds", 2000.
A discussion of the two kinds of conflict expressed in Amy Tan's book "Two Kinds".
1,045 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 2 sources, £ 25.95
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This paper takes a look at the works of Amy Tan, "Two Kinds," from the perspective of new historical criticism, which looks at the authors life and environment along with the work itself.
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"Amy Tan writes about autobiographical events and circumstances in her life in her works The Joy Luck Club and ?Two Kinds.? ?Two Kinds? is a slice of events from her childhood that shows the conflict between Tan and her mother, the collision of old and new cultures, the past and the present, parents? expectations vs. reality, and obedience vs. defiance. Pairs of opposing elements comprise the whole of the story; the title itself, ?Two Kinds,? shows the tension that Tan creates. The argument that presents itself is that Amy Tan is the only person who could have written this story because only she experienced those opposing elements. An examination of ?Two Kinds? defends this theory. "
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