| 1. Name the title of the short story‚ the author‚ and the character you intend to write about. Answer in a complete‚ grammatically correct sentence. Answer: I choose‚ the narrating girl from White Umbrella‚ and the author is Gish Jen. (5 points) |Score | | | 2. Write the thesis statement of your essay. It should consist of one sentence that states the story’s main idea and how the character relates to the idea. 3. Answer: My essay
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ABOUT LAN SAMANTHA CHANG Lan Samantha Chang ’s fiction has appeared in the Atlantic Monthly‚ Story‚ and The Best American Short Stories. A graduate of Yale University and the University of Iowa‚ she divides her time between Northern California and Princeton‚ New Jersey. AN INTERVIEW WITH LAN SAMANTHA CHANG Many of the families in Hunger have attempted to sever themselves from the past in order to build a future. Was this how your parents coped with starting over in America? What parts of Chinese
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are the conflicts she is experiencing and how do they affect her? What has motivated her to tell this story; in other words‚ what meaning is Gish Jen trying to convey in her story using the grandmother as the central rounded character who has a change of heart about the Irish?
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as the choice of words especially with regard to correctness‚ clearness‚ or effectiveness (Merriam-Webster). Syntax is defined as the way in which linguistic elements are put together to form constituents‚ as phrases or clauses (Merriam-Webster). Gish Jen use both of these literary tools very effectively in her story “Who’s Irish?” to display the narrator as a foreigner in America who is unaccustomed to the way Americans live. The author uses broken English to cement the feeling of not being at
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The short stories" Rules of the Game" by Amy Tan‚ and "Who’s Irish" by Gish Jen deal with immigrant mothers and their experiences with their daughters. Each story tells how their is a strain on the mother-daughter relationship and a gap with culture. In "Rules of the Game"‚ Amy Tan’s narrator is Waverly Jong. Waverly is forced throughout the story to discover what game she is playing‚ and what rules she must follow in order to succeed in life. Waverly’s chess playing becomes a metaphor for her struggle
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disgusted with her son-in-law and his brothers who cannot find work or are too lazy to try. She states‚ “I especially cannot understand my daughter’s husband John‚ who has no job but cannot take care of Sophie either. Because he is a man‚ he say…” (Jen 60). There is nothing wrong with her son-in-law‚ it’s just that he is lazy‚ a trait that cannot be found in China‚ which makes it even more difficult
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In Parks’s Topdog/Underdog and Gish Jen’s Typical American‚ comedy in dialogue is implemented to mislead the audience away from the serious and tragic nature the works. While on the surface the dialogue in both of the stories may seem humorous‚ there is a deeper and more serious meaning that is foreshadowed by the remarks of the characters (mainly Booth’s and Ralph’s) throughout the story. Due to this‚ it is as if the audience is deliberately blinded by comedy until there is a sudden shift in the
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In “Who’s Irish”‚ Gish Jen demonstrates a family that has Chinese root and American culture at the same time. The main character is a fierce grandmother who lives in with her daughter’s family‚ and then ironically forced to move out because of her improper behavior during she raises her granddaughter. The author uses some unpleasant language and contents to describe the situation‚ which are effectively demonstrate how difficult and how struggle for people who lives in the gap between two different
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Gish Jens‚ “Mona in the Promised Land‚” has characters that show all different kinds of attributes along with what they identity as. A common identity among a lot of them is being American. The novel encompasses a wide variety of identity that each character holds and is clearly shown through the text. Mona Chang‚ the youngest daughter of the only Chinese family in town‚ starts to try on the identity of being more than just Chinese through being American and Jewish as well. Mona tries on the identity
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Ethno–Racial Identity Configurations in American Narratives. Cross–Cultural Encounters Instructor: Dana Mihăilescu (dmihailes@yahoo.com) This course investigates different stances of ethno-racial identity configurations and cross-cultural encounters in American literature throughout time‚ focusing on the relations between collective and individual memory and trauma‚ mainstream and minority tensions‚ as well as ethno-racial and ethical dilemmas. The course looks at identity as a contextually based-fluid
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