analysis is an evaluation of a story and its contents. In order to make an analysis critical is to use critical thinking and judgment to express a thought or idea. The writer’s opinion forms the analysis‚ but uses evidence to break down the content of a story. “In Everyday Use‚” a critical analysis can be created from the plot‚ characterization‚ point of view‚ and a theme. First‚ the plot of “Every day Use” begins with Mama and Maggie waiting for Dee’s arrival. Mama fantasizes about how grand Dee’s
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Two Kinds by Amy Tan A: Synopsis This short story‚ ‘Two Kinds’ is more focused on the relationships between mother and daughter. The narrator of this story‚ Jing Mei recalls of the days when her mother wanted her to be a prodigy in America. Her mother moved to San Francisco when she lost everything in China. At first‚ she thought that her daughter would be like Shirley Temple as they watched how talented Shirley Temple was in acting. And one day when the narrator’s mother saw a young Chinese girl
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Not My Dream In the story “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan‚ we are shown the struggles of a young girl Jing-Mei. Her struggle is that of a young girl growing up and trying to find her own sense of identity. Her troubles are compounded by her mother‚ who convinces her that she can become someone important. Because of her mother’s constant overbearing behavior‚ Jing-Mei does everything she can to annoy and displease her mother even to the point of being a failure. This fight to find
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friend of Amy’s mother. Waverly Jong is Auntie Lindo’s daughter‚ who is close to Amy’s age. Amy’s piano instructor‚ who she calls "Old Chong"‚ plays a small role in the story. Amy’s dad is included in the text‚ but does not play much of a role. In "Two Kinds"‚ the exposition is clear in the first couple of pages. The story begins by explaining that Amy’s family moved to America when she was a baby‚ in 1949. Her mother is clear in her goals: she wants Amy to be a child prodigy (a person with exceptional
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The Importance of heritage in “Everyday Use” In her story “Everyday Use‚” Alice Walker introduces the complex relationships that are a part of African American families. Being an African American woman herself‚ Walker knows first hand the importance of family and the prevalence of heritage in this world and uses this story to challenge readers to not lose value of their heritage. Quilts are used to represent years of stories and history that carry the legacy of African American families and
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A person spends most of their developing years under the guidance of their parents or guardians. They affect how we think‚ how we feel‚ and how we act. These are among the people who hold the greatest influence. Amy Tan’s ’Two Kinds’ and Jamaica Kincaid’s ’Girl’ both deal with the relationship between a young girl and the guiding force in her life. Amy Tan tells of a mother’s expectation for her daughter to be a child prodigy. Jamaica Kincaid tells of an unknown person describing to a girl how
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"Two Kinds" The story "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan represents the theme that parents cannot control their children‚ but can only guide them. A Chinese mother and daughter Ni Kan are at odds with each other in story. The mother pushes her daughter to become a prodigy of some sort‚ her daughter does try to follow her mother ’s orders but has she gets older she realizes she wants to find her own self and not to be what her mother wants her to be. They both have conflicting values‚ which is the theme of the
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in ""Two Kinds"" Many conflicts occur between parents and children because parents may push the child too hard‚ the child may feel an urge to purposely defy the parents‚ and also because of the parent or child misunderstanding each other. When these problems come about parents and children have different ways of dealing with these conflicts. Some of the strategies used to deal with these conflicts such as rebellion‚ defiance‚ and not cooperating are exhibited in "Two Kinds". In "Two Kinds"
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In the short story‚ Everyday Use by Alice Walker‚ we get a look in to the lives of an African American family living in the south. The plot of the story is simple enough‚ a woman who is to make a decision of to whom she will give away two quilts. The oldest daughter‚ Dee‚ sees the quilts as cultural fashion while Maggie‚ the younger daughter‚ sees them as precious pieces of the people in her past. Walker illustrates an absolute contrast between the two daughters not only in their appearance but
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1987‚ after her mother recovered from a serious illness‚ they took a trip to China where Tan reunited with her half-sisters. The trip offered Tan a new perspective on her mother and inspired her to write her first book‚ The Joy Luck Club in 1989. Two Kinds is one of the short stories in The Joy Luck Club. The story takes place around 1960’s‚ where the narrator talks about her childhood and 1980’s towards the end when she had grown up to be an adult about thirty years old. In the sixties‚ many Chinese
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