The Lone Ranger And Tonto Fistfight In Heaven, By Amy Tan

In our world today there are so many different ways to access diverse and multicultural literature that shows us many examples of culture clash. Culture clash shows when art and other manifestations of humans collide together in literature and movies. Some great examples are “Indian Education’’ from The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexis details on the hardship Victor had to go through during his school years, “Hair’’ from the Autobiography of Malcolm X by Malcom X and Alex Haley focuses on how it can be hard to accept oneself when society tries to say different, and “Two Kinds’’ from The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan tells about a distraught relationship between a mother and daughter over piano lessons. Culture Clash is
‘’Indian Education’’ shows the universal theme of overcoming challenges many times throughout it. One example is when the main character, Victor, is in second grade he draws a picture of his teacher on a witch broom, which she sees and yells to him that her god will never forgive him(CITATION). In this examples the culture clash of having different beliefs contributes to the universal theme by the teacher treating him worse from then to the end of the grade level. This is the first time Victor experiences a person of another color looking down on him which makes him learn that he has overcome people treating him different because he is Indian. Another example is when Victor is in tenth grade one of his friends, Wally Jim, kills himself by driving into a tree. When the state troopers ask why he did it all of the Indians say they do not know, but in reality they did not say anything because they knew the white state troopers would not understand(CITATION). The culture clash of the whites not understanding what the Indians have to go through
Firstis when the mother mutters in Chinese about how Jing Mei, her daughter, would be famous if she had as much talent as she has temper. The culture clash in this example is how the mother speaks in Chinese even though they live in the United States of America but the theme is shown by how the mother keeps pushing her child and is brutally honest with her. Family is always pushing towards each other, even if it means to be blunt. Second is how the mother believes that you can be anything you want to be in America and has all her hope in it because she left some of her family behind in China. The culture clash of becoming anything you want in America unlike China shows the theme by how the mother wants what is best for her daughter even if it means not being the best for her. Lastly is when the mother yells in Chinese at Jing Mei about how there are only two types of daughters, an obedient one and one who follows their own mind and how there is only room for the obedient one. This shows culture clash by how in China, where the mother grew up, you were expected to be obedient but in America you are taught to follow your own mind. The theme is shown through this by how the mother wants what is best for her daughter and is trying to help her daughter do her best. The theme of family is very prominent throughout “Two Kinds” and is defiantly the theme the story revolves