So it was easier for the reader to understand it coming from the characters them self then from a separate narrator. I think the author did well with picking the narration for this book. The writing style Steve Kluger used for this story was different from most; the author chose to set up the story mainly through diary entries directed toward the three student’s chosen confidents. For example T.C chose his mother who passed away, Augie chose the “diva of the week”, and Alejandra chose
THE THEME: Paul Yee tells a story of one women’s survival , and her triumph of victory from defeat. A theme in which we all share as individuals through our struggles in life. PLOT STRUCTURE/SETTING: Plot begins with Gum-may arriving from China to Wilding in 1950, the events to do not occur in chronological order. WHAT ARE THE MAIN ISSUES AND IDEA’S: In this short story I believe that the author states such common issues we as North Americans still share, in today’s society; issues of Racial Discrimination, displacement; and personal dependency are all illustrated by sharing and representing these issues through Gum-may Yee’s own thoughts as she defines each of these issues and how these issues comply with her struggles as a dependent Chinese wife. HOW THE AUTHOR PRESENTS THE IDEA’S AND ISSUES: It is told through the protagonist, namely, Gum-May Yee.
Second, have the students write down a few of the challenging words | | |they may struggle with in the story. Third, the students write the words on their personal dry-erase boards. | | |Fourth, recite them after the teacher says them. Then, the Teacher reads aloud the story “A chair for my | | |mother" by Vera B. Williams. Review the most frequently used words after reading the story.
“We were a family of three girls. By Chinese standards, that wasn't lucky. In Chinatown, everyone knew our story. Outsiders jerked their chins, looked, at us, shook their heads. We heard things.” (Fae Myenne Ng p.1) Thus begins the journey of the novel Bone, by Fae Myenne Ng.
Unlke Yunior, she did not grow up in another country. Her struggle deals with finding an identity as a Chinese- American. Unlike the Domincan culture, which seems to be outspoken and open, the Chinese seem to encourage silence and secrets. The novel begins with Kingston’s mother saying, “You must not tell anyone,” before sharing the story with her daughter. - Silence is encouraged in their culture, allowing Kingston to develop into a shy, awkward girl with trouble adjusting.
She is one of a few poets in the United States whose books of poetry sell in large quantities. Olds is well known for mainly using a free verse style written in the first person point of view when writing her usual intensely personal poetry which depicts family life and political events around the world. The poem entitled “Parents’ Day” is a poem that is straightforward in what the author wants the reader to understand. In this poem Olds describes the complex relation between a mother and her daughter on Parents’ Day at school. Throughout the poem the child portrayed in the poem seems to be awkward and indifferent towards her mother.
Gish Jen seems to describe Sophie in a way that makes it appear that the Grandmother is actually helping with the raising of the child. However, John and Natalie do not approve of her methods. The Grandmother describes the child as “wild” and “not Chinese” (Jen 105). It is unorthodox that a secondary character is so “round.” Sophie is physically described as mostly Chinese except for her brown skin which seemed to be odd due to the fact that it is nowhere between John and Natalie’s (Jen 106). Gish Jen takes a great deal of time to describe John and Natalie Shea’s family dynamic.
She submitted a short story, titled Sing to the Dawn, to the Council for Interracial Books for Children for its annual short story contest. She won the award for the Asian American Division of unpublished Third World Authors, and was encouraged to expand the story into a novel. This she did, and through the process Ho began to see writing as "a political expression," as she once wrote in Interracial Books for Children Bulletin. She had mistrusted the stories about Thailand, Burma, and China she previously read, for she thought that their mostly idyllic portrayal of lives there misrepresented the Asia that she came to know during her childhood. In Sing to the Dawn, Ho brought her readers into a realistic rural Thailand through the eyes of a young village girl Dawan, whose struggle to convince
Tan also uses“different English with her family (mother /husband) that she grew up with”. Amy Tan has provided us with many examples. Tan states on page 789 “As a case in point, a television station recently interviews my mother and I didn’t see it when it was aired, but my mother did. She was telling me what happened. She said that everything she said, which was in English, was subtitled in English, as if she had been speaking in pure Chinese.” But to her mother she saw nothing wrong with the way she talked and it was absurd for the Television station to make her sound as if she was an illiterate English speaker or speaking Chinese.
The joy luck club by Amy Tan Analysis of the book The bond between a mother and daughter is very strong. It goes deeper than words can reach and continues beyond the grave. During life, however, it may not be at all comfortable; there may be battles and misunderstandings, impatience and anger. And if your mother was born in pre-Revolutionary China, and you were born in San Francisco in 1950, a child of two differing cultures, how do you explain your problems to her? How will she understand your feelings?