Compare/Contrast Maya Angelou’s “Champion of the World” and Amy Tan’s “Fish Cheeks” both capture the authors’ past experiences of oppression‚ and convey their struggles with identity. Both authors are from minority cultures‚ and both describe the same harsh pressures from the dominant culture. Both author’s share situations of being outcasts‚ coming from different racial backgrounds and trying to triumph over these obstacles. Tan and Angelou speak about the differences between their childhood
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First‚ both Tan and Crutcher utilize conflict to convey the shared theme that a strong sense of self is necessary under pressure from the expectations of others. For example‚ in Tan’s story‚ ‘Fish Cheeks’‚ when it is revealed to Amy that Robert’s family was invited to her house for Christmas Eve‚ it is said‚ “What would Robert think of our shabby Chinese Christmas Eve?” (2) it is presented that she thinks her family is embarrassing. The problem is that she also enjoys Chinese culture‚ as shown in
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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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Maya Angelou more effectively uses description and narration to portray her view of segregation as a group from the dominant culture in the location and era of her tale. Both Maya Angelou and Amy Tan used narrations and/or descriptions to describe isolations from Anglo-dominant society. Maya Angelou uses emotions of audiences in Uncle Willie’s store‚ exciting pace of the boxing match‚ and audiences’ conversations to‚ intensity of the game‚ as well as the voice from radio to narrate the story and
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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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“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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Champion of the World Maya Angelou Paragraph By: Jessica Terenzi Maya Angelou’s “Champion of the World” portrays drama‚ fearlessness‚ and a descriptive character that lends depth to her writing; drawing the reader deeper into the scene she has painted with her words. With the first paragraph she describes the scene of a gathering in her Uncle Willie’s store as being “filled‚ yet people continued to wedge themselves along the walls of the Store. Women sat on kitchen chairs‚ dining-room chairs
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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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Maya Angelou‚ who was the first African-American to work in the San Francisco streetcars‚ accomplished many things in her life. This fact proves that Angelou was a woman who believed in doing what needs to be done in order to accomplish her goals. Angelou made an impact on the world by creating books for children that could relate to most of their situations‚ but most importantly she fought for African American rights in the early and middle 1900s. Maya Angelou’s early life helped lead to her need
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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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