Compare Amy Tan's life to my life - Compare and contrast Tan's different works of literature.
Date Submitted: 09/10/2006 04:45:45
Category: / Literature / Creative Writing
Length: 6 pages (1550 words)
Category: / Literature / Creative Writing
Length: 6 pages (1550 words)
"...I had seen the signs, really I had. But I just let it happen. And I think now that fate is shaped half by expectation, half by intention. But somehow, when you lose something you love, faith takes over. You have to pay attention to what you lost. You have to undo the expectation" (Tan, Joy 131). Amy Tan tells the tales of her childhood, and the history of her mother and grandmother through her works, …
Is this Essay helpful? Join now to read this particular paper
and access over 480,000 just like this GET BETTER GRADES
and access over 480,000 just like this GET BETTER GRADES
…Tan Author of The Joy Luck Club. Springfield: Enslow Publishers Inc. 1996.
Mason, Deborah. "A Not-So-Dutiful Daughter." The New York Times. 23 Nov. 2003, Book Review 30.
Tan, Amy. "Mother Tongue." A Closer Look. Eds. Sidney Dobrin and Anis Bawarshi. New York: McGraw-Hill. 2003. 622-626.
Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1989.
Xu, Ben. "Memory and the Ethnic Self: Reading Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club." Modern Critic Views Amy Tan. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers. 2000.
Need a custom written paper? Let our professional writers save your time.
Not a member yet?
