Amy Tan was born in Oakland, California, on February 19, 1952. She grew up in Fresno, Oakland, Berkeley, and the suburbs of the San Francisco Bay ... for longer than any other book in that year. Both books are about Chinese-American culture, but different in may ways. First of all, Amy Tan attended Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon. She received a bachelor's degree in English and Linguistics; University of California/Santa Cruz, and University of California/Berkeley. Originally ... , Amy Tan had not planned to be a writer. After graduating from college, she worked as a language developm...

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• Grade Level: High School

... to find books, probably copies of The Pilgrim's Progress, under their pillows. The girls then go on to have various adventures. Amy is caught trading limes at school, and the teacher hits her as punishment. As a result, Mrs. March withdraws her daughter from school. Jo refuses ... marrying young and creating a new family, like Meg, being dutiful to one's parents and immediate family, as Beth is, concentrate on personal endeavors like Amy or struggle to live both a dutiful family life and a good professional life, like Jo. The author makes me like Jo more than the other ... Alcott is try...

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• Grade Level: High School

Amy Tan's novel, The Joy Luck Club is one that is truly amazing and a joy to read. There are a number of issues at work in the novel, the most obvious one ... everyone I'm your daughter" (p. 101). The girls cannot relate to their mothers because they were raised in a ... Mother-daughter Relations and Clash of Cultures in The Joy Luck Club Six Sources Amy Tan is an American Born Chinese, daughter of immigrants, and her family shares many features with the families depicted in her novels. Tan's novels offer some glimpses of life in ... . When immigrants raise their children in America, there i...

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• Grade Level: High School

Importance of Minor Characters A minor character in a short story often plays an important role. Amy Tan proves this in the short story "Two Kinds". Mr. Chong, the old, strange and deaf music teacher plays a very small role, yet is so vital in this story. Suyuan, ... . As Jing-Mei finished her performance, Mr. Chong was the only one to applaud her as he heard her performance as he saw her-content, beautiful, well together and organized. Amy Tan has appropriately titled this chapter as "Two Kinds." Suyuan and Jing-Mei are opposites in their natures and attitudes. The title also refers to two p...

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• Grade Level: High School

... phat, winters father spares his wife and his daughters no luxury, and no thing is generic. Versace, Courvoisier, Chanel, and Moet "there are enough brand names to make Bret Easton Ellis Proud. Even her twin sisters are named Mercedes and Lexus (Elder)."" Many of the main characters for the most part in the book exhibit this high need for all ... ...

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The controversy that surrounds the transformation between Clueless directed by Amy Heckerling and Emma by Jane Austen is immense. Critics argue that Clueless is a "dumbing down" of Emma, reducing a timeless classic to a degrading, superficial and hardly distinguishable adaptation, taking away from ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School