Have you ever been in a situation were you cant except who you are and want to be the same as everybody else???? Amy Tan the writer of fish cheeks writes about herself. She is very creative but has a problem. she is Chinese but everybody else is American and she feels kind different. and lest out. and wishes she could be American. So without her knowing her mom and dad invite the family that her crush perhaps to be the son of the ministers family so she thinks he’s going to think were weird cause
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Fish Cheeks Acceptance in a new environment is tough whether you are from distant lands or around the corner fitting in is always desired. This is something many kids can relate to at one point or another. Amy Tan’s essay “Fish Cheeks” exposes the reader to the vulnerability she felt as a young Chinese teenager growing up in America. Fish Cheeks is a short story about a young Chinese girl in America with a crush on Robert‚ The son of the pastor of her church. Tan’s background inhibits the acceptance
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Questions: “Fish Cheeks” 1. Why does Tan cry when she finds out that the boy she is in love with is coming to dinner? -Amy cried‚ because she thought Robert would be disappointed about her and her family. 2. Why does Tan’s mother go out of her way to prepare a traditional Chinese dinner for her daughter and her guests? What one sentence best sums up the lesson Tan was not able to understand until years later? -I think Amy’s mother did a traditional Chinese dinner because since it was
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“Fish Cheeks” In Amy Tan’s short story‚ “Fish Cheeks”‚ Amy changes drastically. You really see a change in herself. Not an outward change‚ it’s definitely more of an inward change. In the beginning of the story she tells you how she fell in love with the minister’s son when she was fourteen. She was Chinese‚ he was American‚ and she made it evident that it bothered her. She was scared of what her crush‚ Robert‚ would think of her when his family had plans to come to her house for Christmas Eve
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food. Robert and his family waited patiently for platters to be passed to them. My relatives murmured with pleasure when my mother brought out the whole steamed fish. Robert grimaced. Then my father poked his chopsticks just below the fish eye and plucked out the soft meat. "Amy‚ your favorite‚" he said‚ offering me the tender fish cheek. I wanted to disappear. At the end of the meal my father leaned back and belched loudly‚ thanking my mother for her fine cooking. "It’s a
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Isabel Loeper Period 4 10/1/14 Fish Cheeks In Amy Tan’s Fish Cheeks‚ published in a 1987 issue of Seventeen Magazine‚ Tan wishes to let her audience know that it is okay to want to be different‚ but always hold on to who you were before as well. Ms. Tan drew in the audience by beginning her story with the common line about love. She made things interesting by tell us that her crush was set to join her at Christmas Eve. She went on to explain that her Chinese cultural family was an embarrassment
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Cristian Cobb 2. Tan’s mother went out of her way to prepare a disturbingly Chinese dinner because she wanted to demonstrate to her guests as well as her daughter that their Chinese heritage was nothing to be embarrassed about‚ but rather something to be proud of. She proved this by taking the menu to the extreme. For an example‚ in the last sentence‚ "For Christmas Eve that year‚ she had chosen all my favorite foods."; this demonstrates that‚ although Tan was embarrassed at the time of the dinner
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In the story Fish cheeks‚ Amy Tran uses vivid imagery through out her story. In her story she uses a nervous and embarrasment tone while she was telling the story. Tran should except her culture and her family’s ways she shouldnt change nothing for no one‚ no matter who they are. Tran starts the story by telling the readers about when she first “fell in love” with the ministers son‚ she kind of gave off the nervous vibe when her mom had told her she invited the minister and his family for there
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What impression does Amy Tan present of herself in “Fish Cheeks”? How? In “Fish Cheeks”‚ Amy Tan gives an impression of being insecure and overly dramatic. She is especially insecure about being Chinese‚ and this is evident in several points during the text. She has a crush on a white boy‚ Robert‚ who she describes first and foremost as “not Chinese‚ but as white as Mary in the manger”. Comparing him to Mary‚ a holy figure‚ almost suggests an idealization of Robert because of his race. Amy
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Would you change your culture to please other people? In the descriptive short story‚ Fish Cheeks‚ describes a family meal where two different groups of people shared their culture. Amy Tan explained the story in great detailed and also taught an excellent lesson about not being afraid to be diverse from other people. “You must be proud you are different. Your only shame is to have shame.” People act different‚ culture wise yet‚ at the end of the day everyone is alike. Sharing your heritage
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