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    Why do you think John Marsden and Shaun Tan chose this image‚ over all the others for the cover of The Rabbits? The Rabbits by John Marsden and Shaun Tan is a perspicacious insight into the colonization of Australia from the perspective of the colonized. The appropriated image of Captain Cook’s arrival in 1770 was an inquisitively chosen illustration as it provoked a provocative response from the viewer making it glaringly obvious as to why Tan chose this as the front cover. Through decisive

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    Culture Influence in the Joy Luck Club The Joy Luck Club is a fictional novel by Amy Tan that unfolds the lives of four Chinese families and their American-born daughters. The story is portrayed in a diary-like fashion and it follows the lives and personal accounts of the Woo‚ Hsu‚ Jong‚ and St. Clair families. Culture is significant and it influences the story in many ways. The Chinese and American cultures clash in this particular novel. The Chinese culture is represented as a high- context

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    qualities are distinct descriptive words that let us know about the particular characteristics of every character. For the characters like the narrator in “The Yellow Wallpaper”(gutenberg.org) by Charlotte Perking Gilman‚ Jing-mei Woo in “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan‚ and Mr. Summers in “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson‚ these characters tell us more about their personality and their role in the story. Character attributes can be physical (He

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    CPT Essay Creativity Expands Life Expectations The phrase “thinking outside of the box” means to consider solutions creatively. “Poetry” by Pablo Neruda‚ “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan‚ and “The Blues Merchant” by Jerome Washington‚ all share the common subject of “thinking outside of the box”. This phrase is the power to expand life possibilities. In the poem “Poetry”‚ Neruda expresses art to develop life potentials. The poem begins with a person who “did not know what to say‚ my mouth‚

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    wearing the invisibility cloak from Harry Potter. After reading The Joy Luck Club however‚ I realize that Invisible strength is a trait that we should all strive to get. Invisible strength comes in many forms and does many things. In the Joy Luck Club‚ Amy Tan is trying to show that even in the worst of circumstances‚ people can gain control over their own lives with the motif of invisible strength. This motif develops within the Jong family between both Lindo and Waverly. Lindo first discovers invisible

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    when the mother is the nightmare‚ they have no comfort. The topics are excerpts‚ one is from Amy Chua’s memoir Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom and the other is from Amy Tan’s novel The Joy Luck Club are about mother-daughter relationships. The authors wrote about their own memories. Chua is about being the mother of two daughters and Tan is about being the daughter of two Chinese immigrant parents. In Amy Chua’s excerpt “The Violin”‚ Chua is retelling a memory of her and her daughter‚

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    shape character and lead to some sort of self-realization. Such moments may result in a loss of innocence‚ the destruction of hopes and dreams‚ the sense of imprisonment‚ and perhaps lessons learned. Two literary works that illustrate such concepts are Amy Tan’s “Two Kinds” and James Joyce’s “Araby.” Both pieces are narrated by the main characters‚ as adults‚ reflecting upon and portraying a better understanding of their childhood experiences. Although the affairs and outcomes recounted in each differ

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    people and hold power with ease. In the article “Mother Tongue”‚ Amy Tan emphasizes the idea that we all speak different languages unconsciously and that we are categorized by the way we speak. Language is power; people develop that power through their own sense of cultural and historical language and usage because language comes from culture. In “Mother Tongue‚” Amy Tan discusses the different experiences she had that made her realized the different types of "English’s"

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    Exemplar A: Excellence Research topic: What’s on Amy Tan’s Mind? Research questions: ▪ What issues stand out in Amy Tan’s writing? ▪ How do the narrative techniques used highlight these issues? ▪ Why does Amy Tan highlight these issues? Research Notes: The Kitchen God’s Wife Author: Amy Tan. ISSUES Sense of self identity: ▪ Revelation of her mother’s secret past brings the identity of who Pearl’s biological father really is. ▪ To Pearl this news is horrific

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    Bridging the Gaps In Amy Tan’s novel of conflicting cultures‚ The Joy Luck Club‚ the narrators contemplate their inability to relate from one culture to another. The novel is narrated by and follows the connected stories about conflicts between Chinese immigrant mothers and their American-raised daughters. Jing-mei‚ one of the daughters‚ has taken her mother’s place in a weekly gathering her mother had organized called the Joy Luck Club‚ in which four women would gather to gamble together to help

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