John Cheever's 'Pleading Child'
It often surprises me how different individuals from different cultures and backgrounds all come together in one country and share many experiences. Individuals like Amy Tan who was born among Chinese immigrants, John Cheever from Massachusetts and Louise Erdrich who comes from a Chippewa Indian and German background and was born in Minnesota. A vast variety of origins and they all come to have several good or bad things in common in their work. Hardships of immigration is stated or implied in these pieces as well as parent-child relationship. Nearly all of them carry a sense of determination of different levels and stories of this kind not unlike the ones examined in this piece have a blend, colorless and depressing tone.
““Pleading child” was shorter but slower, “Perfectly Contented” was longer but faster and after I played them both I realized they were two halves of the same song” (Tan, 105) Now I usually avoid long quotations but this one by Tan should be engraved on gold and kept in the museum of great metaphors. Growing into your long and fast adulthood through your short and slow childhood is indirectly implied throughout …show more content…
It could either make it or ruin it for the audience. “Two Kinds” will bring your eyebrows closer to each other while “Reunion” will raise them up to the top of your forehead. “Two kinds” takes place in china town –not the best part of New York City - . An immigrant mother with broken English who yells at Jeng Mei for every mistake she makes on top of that, is definitely not helping her cause. The story does not calm down until the very end and when it does it is superb. While on the nearly parallel line reunion never changed its tone. It goes from blend to blend. It is amusing all along but it definitely misses a good climax maybe not as exotic as Tan’s but “And that’s the last time I saw my father” and the format has ended way too many
““Pleading child” was shorter but slower, “Perfectly Contented” was longer but faster and after I played them both I realized they were two halves of the same song” (Tan, 105) Now I usually avoid long quotations but this one by Tan should be engraved on gold and kept in the museum of great metaphors. Growing into your long and fast adulthood through your short and slow childhood is indirectly implied throughout …show more content…
It could either make it or ruin it for the audience. “Two Kinds” will bring your eyebrows closer to each other while “Reunion” will raise them up to the top of your forehead. “Two kinds” takes place in china town –not the best part of New York City - . An immigrant mother with broken English who yells at Jeng Mei for every mistake she makes on top of that, is definitely not helping her cause. The story does not calm down until the very end and when it does it is superb. While on the nearly parallel line reunion never changed its tone. It goes from blend to blend. It is amusing all along but it definitely misses a good climax maybe not as exotic as Tan’s but “And that’s the last time I saw my father” and the format has ended way too many