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The Mother-Daughter Tale in Literature, 2004.
A comparative analysis of the mother-daughter relationships in Anna Quindlen's "One True Thing" and Amy Tam's "The Joy Luck Club".
2,723 words (approx. 10.9 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 55.95
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The mother-daughter tale is a relatively new phenomenon in literature, which has not yet been defined by any particular characteristics. This essay proposes three essential characteristics of a such a tale: estrangement between the mother and the daughter, a crisis which brings the mother and the daughter together, and the daughter's epiphany. Furthermore, the essay applies these characteristics in comparing the two novels at hand, "One True Thing" by Anna Quindlen and "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tam.
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"Similarly, The Joy Luck Club, a novel by Amy Tam, is a collection of sixteen separate stories about four mothers and each of their daughters. The mothers, who were are all born in China, struggle to teach their Americanized daughters the valuable truths that they have accumulated through life's experiences. The estrangement between the mothers and daughters in The Joy Luck Club is the product of their cultural difference. For example, when playing Mah-Jongg with the Aunties, her deceased mother's friends, June comments on the nature of all of the Aunties' relationships with their daughters. "In me they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the truths and hopes they have brought to America. They see daughters who grow impatient when mothers talk in Chinese, who think they are stupid when they explain things in fractured English" (Tam, 31). The cultural difference between the mothers and their daughters is a barrier that impedes their communication and understanding of each other. In their daughters, the mothers are reminded of the false hopes and dreams that brought them to America. While in their mothers, the daughters are confronted with a culture and philosophy of life that they don't understand being born and raised in America. Due to this, the mothers and daughters in the novel share estranged relationships."
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Mother and Daughter Literature, 2006.
This paper explores literature about the relationship between mothers and daughters, especially in Joyce Carol Oates' "Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been?" and Tillie Olsen's "I Stand Here Ironing".
1,855 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 40.95
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This paper explains that the way mothers pass down feminine values to their daughters often causes conflict, for both persons. The author points out that the mothers in the two stories, "I Stand Here Ironing" by Tillie Olsen and "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" by Joyce Carol Oates, live under differing circumstances with dissimilar relationships with their daughters; however, both mothers, inadvertently or not, have favored one child with more attention and nurturing than the other child. The paper concludes, from the literature, that enjoying the complete love of a mother and at the same time maintaining complete autonomy is a very delicate and intense challenge because most women continue to identify strongly with their mothers, even after they themselves become adults. The paper includes several quotations.
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"There are many books and novels published regarding the unusual dynamics between mothers and daughters. Amy Tan's novel, "The Joy Luck Club", addresses her issues with her mother's demanding and controlling ways and Tan's inability to ever live up to her mother's expectations, no matter how brilliantly she tries. There are currently young adult novels on the library shelves to help adolescent girls develop a healthier relationship with their mothers. It is interesting how many women have issues with their mothers."
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Feminist Literature- History of Feminism and the Mother-Daughter Relationship, 2000.
A detailed analysis of the role of feminist literature in society, and the depiction of the mother-daughter relationship.
7,080 words (approx. 28.3 pages), 11 sources, £ 108.95
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This paper is a detailed analysis of the role of feminist literature in society. The paper details the impact of women writers and shows the changing role of feminist literature over the years. This essay integrates numerous authors and studies as a means of supporting the thesis that feminist literature currently plays and has played a prominent role in the literary world.
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Mother-Daughter Relationships, 2002.
A discussion on troubled mother-daughter relationships through literature.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 2 sources, £ 24.95
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This paper discusses troubled mother-daughter relationships and suggests reasons why they are so common in female coming-of-age novels. In the process, the author compares the mother-daughter relationship in Dorothy Allison's "Bastard Out of Carolina" with the mother-daughter relationships in Louisa Alvarez's "How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents."
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Mothers and Daughters: "The Joy Luck Club".
Describes the complex relationship between the mothers and daughters in Amy Tan's novel, "The Joy Luck Club".
1,541 words (approx. 6.2 pages), 4 sources, MLA, £ 34.95
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This paper explains the prevailing theme of mother-daughter relationships in Amy Tan's novel, "The Joy Luck Club," and looks at the novel's focus on the need for Asian-born mothers and their daughters to reconcile the past with the present.
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"One way Tan came to terms with this was embracing multiple perspectives and dual identities, Chinese and American. "I think that the other reason that I've become a storyteller is that I was raised with so many different conflicting ideas that it posed many questions for me in life, and those questions became a filter for looking at all my experiences and seeing them from different angles. That's what I think that a storyteller does, and underneath the surface of the story is a question or a perspective or a nagging little emotion, and then it grows." (Giles, 1995) The multi-layered narrative structure of The Joy Luck Club generated by this upbringing is striking, as it alternates past and present, between the different perspectives of the members of the club and their daughters."
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Mother-Daughter Relationships in Literature, 2004.
A narrative and psychoanalytic approach to mother-daughter relationships in literature.
1,250 words (approx. 5.0 pages), 7 sources, MLA, £ 28.95
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This paper examines mother-daughter relationships from a narrative perspective as well as a psychoanalytic approach. The paper determines the extent to which psychoanalytic perspectives and theories may be applied to the mother-daughter bond as it is presented in many well-known literary works. To that extent, the short stories of Katherine Mansfield are compared to literary works by Jamaica Kincaid in order to offer a wide understanding of narrative technique employed in shorter and longer works.
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"In many cases the writer invests something of themselves in the work to convince the reader of the authenticity of the characters. This is certainly the case in autobiographical works including fictional works derived from true to life situations. Jamaica Kincaid is an exemplary model of an author who utilizes autobiographical techniques among others to define her characters. Katherine Mansfield is well known for minimizing drama in her works while simultaneously raising psychological insight and perspective. Her techniques have been described in many ways. In her more recent works O?Sullivan points out that she employs a variety of techniques to build her plots up toward an epiphany in a plunging manner, as evidenced in Bliss and Daughters. Mansfield includes ?indirections, shifts of perspective, overlapping and modulations of time and imprecision?s of mood and randomness? (O?Sullivan, 1975) to engage the reader."
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Letter from a Mother to her Daughter, 2002.
A fictional letter from mother to daughter.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 1 source, £ 17.95
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This is a fictional letter written from a mother to her daughter on her 18th birthday. In the letter, the mother explains about love, self-esteem, and explores the relationship between parents and their children. The text that is referred to at the end of this assignment is a psychology source on parents and children.
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DES and Mothers & Daughters, 2005.
An analysis of the social effects of DES on mothers and their daughters.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 5 sources, £ 36.95
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This third year sociology paper is an article review on the social effects of DES on mothers and daughters. The paper further examines conflict and feminist theory on the subject.
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"In the article Woe The Women: DES, Mothers and Daughters Deborah Davidson looks at the impacts of diethylstilberstrol (DES) on mothers and their daughters. DES was an anti-miscarriage drug that was fast tracked on to the market before it was proven safe. The result was a number of cases of premature labour, infertility, Adenocarcinoma (CCA) and a range of other health problems (Davidson 161). Although a medical examination of DES would be quite interesting Davidson decides to look at the social effects on mothers and daughters who were exposed to DES."
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Mothers and Daughters, 2004.
A comparative analysis of the mother-daughter relationship in Amy Tan's "Rules of the Game" and Alice Walker's "Everyday Use".
690 words (approx. 2.8 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 15.95
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This paper analyzers the ways that Amy Tan, in "Rules of the Game" and Alice Walker in "Everyday Use" investigate the relationships between mothers and daughters. It looks at how these relationships that the authors find compelling in and of themselves, are also found to be illuminative of the larger conflicts between past and future, tradition and progress, the Old World and the New. It shows how both writers root their stories within a specific ethnic tradition and how both are also engaged in that retelling of the universal.
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"Amy Tan in "Rules of the Game" and Alice Walker in "Everyday Use" investigate the relationships between mothers and daughters, relationships that the authors find compelling in and of themselves and that they also find to be illuminative of the larger conflicts .."
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Mother/Daughter Relationships, 2002.
Compares the mother/daughter relationship in Hispanic families to the same relationship in non-Hispanic families.
2,150 words (approx. 8.6 pages), 10 sources, £ 54.95
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There is a large Hispanic population in the United States today. Many live in poverty in the cities, while others have moved up to the middle class and beyond. No matter what class, however,does the relationship between a Hispanic mother and daughter differe from the same relationship in non-Hispanic families? That is the topic explored in this paper.
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Mother/Daughter Relationships in "The Joy Luck Club", 1999.
A brief look at the mother/daughter pairings in the novel, emphasizing the struggle for identity for Chinese-American women.
780 words (approx. 3.1 pages), 1 source, £ 18.95
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"In the novel "The Joy Luck Club", by Amy Tan, each girl desires to be the exact opposite of her mother, when in reality they are almost exactly alike. An-mei?s daughter, Rose, is a quiet woman just like a traditional Chinese woman. Lindo?s daughter, Waverly, is like her in the way that they have both become so Americanized that they no longer fit in anywhere. Ying-ying?s daughter, Lena, is like her in the way that both are passive ?shadows,? neither ever being seen nor heard. Suyuan-Woo?s daughter, Jing-mei, is like her in the fact that they both fear that they have lost an important part of their family forever without ever really appreciating it. As a result of these similarities, each mother and daughter are so alike that they are mirror images of each other, living in a different time and in a different set of circumstances. "
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Mothers and Daughters, 2007.
This paper looks at the motherly thoughts, realizations and truths in "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker and "I Stand Here Ironing" by Tillie Olson.
801 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 2 sources, MLA, £ 19.95
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The paper examines two short stories, "Everyday Use" by Alice Walker and "I Stand Here Ironing" by Tillie Olson, where both viewpoint characters are the mothers of now-grown daughters who realize truths about their daughters they never saw before. The paper explains that "I Stand Here Ironing" is written in a more mainstream way, without ethnic or regional colloquialisms, while "Everyday Use" reflects, in terms of content as well as style, the distinctiveness of African- American culture. The paper analyzes both stories in terms of style and content and demonstrates the similarities of many of the key themes and realizations of the mothers within these stories.
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"In "Everyday Use", Mama is the mother of Dee, who is flashy, outspoken, confident and successful, and Maggie, who is shyer and mush less confident, but who has survived a fire and has quiet inner strength her mother has not always seen. In "I Stand Here Ironing", Emily's unnamed mother, who is ironing clothes throughout the whole story, recollects to herself how someone, perhaps a teacher or counselor from Emily's school, had once wanted to talk to her, a poor working single parent, about Emily's needing help. Then, later, the mother recalls, Emily showed a surprising gift for comedy."
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Mother and Daughters in Canadian Literature, 2002.
An analysis of three novels by Canadian women about their relationships and their problems with their daughters.
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 3 sources, £ 60.95
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This paper reviews three novels by Canadian women authors as a way to compare and contrast their writing styles, and how these styles work to convey the complex relations of mothers and daughters. All three stories, (Hetty Dorval, The Swamp Angel, The Fire-Dwellers) deal with issues of language, silence, and the value of symbols and metaphors to express what is often inexpressible for women. This essay explores these themes through the writing of the authors, Ethel Wilson and Margaret Laurence, who portray a relation of writer with subject, where the ambiguities of understanding women in society become a shared project of story and writing.
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Mother-Daughter Love, 2006.
This paper analyzes the theme of maternal love in Tony Morrison's "Beloved."
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 2 sources, £ 48.95
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The paper describes Tony Morrison's "Beloved" as an extremely challenging and often harrowing novel. It deals with monumental issues, such as slavery, sexual abuse of women, motherhood, murder, ghosts, love between adults and maternal love. The paper explains that this is challenging in itself and is made even more difficult by the complex prose style and by the interpolation of magical realism into the fact-based plot. Moreover, due to the numerous themes in the book, it can be challenging to even pin down the most important themes. However, this essay argues that the single most important theme to evaluate in this book is love, primarily maternal love.
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