Amy Tan Research Paper

Amy Tan

There are only two types of authors; those whose literary works are dull and emotionless, and those whose works are filled with compelling, fiery, tear-jerking feuds and emotions. Amy Tan is an author that goes under second one. Amy Tan affected America by writing about her views of mother daughter relationships; her inspirational life, interviews, and being able to live with Lyme Disease; and she also plays apart in the entertainment industry.

“Amy Tan parents Daisy and John wanted her to become a doctor and a concert pianist, she got a master’s degree in linguistics instead”(Amy Tan Bio). In “Two Kinds” it had the same inspiration(Holt Elements of Literature). It has the mother as Mrs. Woo and the daughter as Jing-me. Jing-me
That how the story got its title “Two Kinds”. The struggle was real for Amy Tan and her mother Daisy. They did not speak for six mouth after Amy left the Baptist college her mother selected for
In an interview on Academy of Achievements, Amy Tan said: “ I didn’t fear failure. I expected failure. I think I’ve always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than success”(Amy Tan Academy of Achievement). She is also a Language Development Specialist for programs serving children with developmental disabilities, later she became the Director of a demonstration project on mainstreaming multicultural children with disabilities into the public school system(Amy Tan Bio). In spite of Amy Tan getting hit with Lyme Disease and the treatment not getting for many years, she has overcome the symptoms and continued to write best selling novel, including “Saving fish from Drowning” and the “Valley of Amazement”(Amy Tan Academy of Achievement). “In 2003, also she published The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings, an autobiography in which she disclosed her experience with Lyme disease, a chronic bacterial infection contracted from the bite of a common tick”(Amy Tan Academy of Achievement). “Amy Tan’s case went undiagnosed for years before she received proper treatment, and she suffered intense physical pain, mental impairment and seizures”(Amy Tan Academy of Achievement). “Currently she is the literary