Summary Of Cheeks By Amy Tim

In the short stories “Shopping” by Joyce Oates and “Fish Cheeks” by Amy Tan, I discovered a connection in both stories about mothers love. Both show a gratitude of reasons on how and why mothers love is present. Both stories have a completely different morals but both come together into one meaning; mothers love.

“Fish Cheeks” by Amy Tan tells us about how a young girl discovers that it is okay for your family to be different and that she should appreciate her family’s culture. She learns this after one very long and embarrassing Christmas Eve supper with the preacher’s family. In this story Tan uses several different times rhetoric devices. She uses imagery, ethos, and pathos. Imagery is used to give the reader a better description of the story. Ethos and pathos are used when the child and mother have an disagreement about their emotions and feelings. Her word choice ,diction, in the story also has an impact on the story.

Everybody changes throughout life, either it from being around certain people, having people persuade you into doing something, or by seeing a certain event happen. Everyone goes through a type of change that can make a big difference in their life. I argue that people in the play “Witness” by Karen Hesse can change from being around others because Sara Chickering changed from being around the Hirsh’s, Viola ended up joining the KKK because of her husband pressuring her to, and Merlin by seeing Leanora saving Ester.

In the world we live in there are multiple definitions of what beauty is. However is it right to deemed a certain skin color more beautiful than the other? In our history we are taught that being a white complexion has many advantages, and that being a dark complexion is a shame. Although that is history, in our world today believe it or not individuals are still subjected to discrimination because of their skin color. In a book called "Bum Rush The Page", a poem called "Complected" written by Teri Ellen Cross, the author indicates the clear epidemic problem of racism and identity that is occurring nationwide today.

Amy and the main character from “Carapace” both feel burdened to satisfy the expectations of their country by changing their personality and adapting to situations in specific ways. Such behavior is seen when Amy complies to Robert and the American culture by refusing to eat her favorite delicacy, fish cheeks, only because the dish is not the traditional Thanksgiving spread of her society, the United States. Amy is also stressed to conform by committing to the “dress code” of her society as told by her mother, “You want to be same as American girl on the outside.”(Tan 2) and her wish, “I prayed for...a slim new American nose” (Tan 1).

On January 20, 1935 a little Polish girl named Sylvia Perlmutter came to life in Lodz Poland. At the young age of four this girl of great faith, courage, and honesty

I read the book Pretties By: Scott Westerfeld, the book is about how a young girl named Tally was living in what she thought to be a perfect world. Although, something in her life seemed to be missing she couldn’t place a finger on it. Tally was part of the “crims” a very special and popular group. She end up finding two pills left for her, they were the cure to being “pretty minded”. She shared the pills with another person, Zane. Zane is the boy she fell in love with, they have a strong bond of love. Along Tally’s journeys her friend, Shay, becomes jealous of Tally. Shay wanted to be cured, just like Tally. There became a strong tension, that put the two of them against each other. After Tally left a lot had changed around New Pretty Town. Tally had made it finally to the New Smoke, and was reunited with Zane. Not long after, special circumstances

During the Christmas dinner, Amy finds herself ashamed of how different she is, though her parents view their culture as normal and think it makes their daughter unique. Despite the way her parents embrace their culture, Amy is unable to overlook how far she is from her standards of a normal American girl. With the news that her parents had invited over the minister’s family for Christmas eve dinner, Amy discovers a newfound embarrassment in her culture, brought on by her fear of how Robert, the minister’s son and the boy she loves, will see her culture. Amy begins to see things how she assumes Robert will view her culture, and becomes judgmental and uncomfortable with her relatives’ behavior. What once were her favorite foods suddenly seemed so gross that Amy couldn’t imagine why anyone would willingly eat them. Tan’s contrast of the different perspectives on the Christmas dinner reveals Amy’s feeling of shame and her indifference to the rest of her family’s pride in their culture.

The story “Suzy and Leah” written by Jane Yolen, is about two girls. Suzy is from America, while Leah is from Germany. The girls first meet on August 5, 1944, when Suzy handed out candy bars to the refugee kids. When Suzy and Leah first meet each other, they didn’t like one or another. But as they got to know each other, they became friends. In school, Suzy helps Leah with her English. The girls got to know each other better though English. By the end of the story, Suzy’s view point on Leah changes.

Lisamarie is one of the main characters in Eden Robinson’s novel. She is a young woman with supernatural gifts. Her brother Jimmy goes missing at sea under unclear circumstances. The disappearance of her brother rekindles her past memories, making her reflect on certain profound happenings in her life (Bridgeman 2). Lisa wakes up and finds her parents preparing to go and search for Jimmy who is missing. She decides to remain behind at first but later decides to join them. Unfortunately, she could not find a flight that will take her quickly to her parents. Lisa decides to take the family’s motorboat to sail along the Pacific Ocean coast and get there. At that point, we know that Lisamarie searches for her brother Jimmy over the course of Monkey Beach. The question is this; Is Jimmy the only one she searches for? The answer is no, she also searches for herself. Although she goes on a journey to look for her missing brother, she also seeks to come to terms with herself. She experiences a struggle between supernatural realm and a physical plane which correlates between mainstream society and cultural identity.

​Many times we consume ourselves with image and the importance of meeting status quo and in the process lose the ability to be ones unique self. Author Sally Hogshead has transcended the clichés of being your best you. In the book How the World Sees You, Sally Hogshead pulls from her successful career in marketing and experiences in sales to demonstrate the magnitude of understanding that how the world sees you should be in conjunction with who you are and not who think you are. Through Sally Hogsheads extensive research and expertise she has been able to develop a personality assessment to determine how the individual fascinates the world and people in their world. How the World Sees You is a step by step guide towards becoming who are and

The streets of Ho Chi Minh City are beautiful around the summer time, but my favorite city was Huế, the city of cheap eats. My siblings and I have never been to Vietnam before, so it was an experience for all of us. As we were sitting down in a restaurant, looking at the menu, an old lady came up to us to take our order. My mother used to order for my brothers, so she ordered for them. When the lady looked at me, waiting for me to give her my order, all I could do was point at the picture on the menu and give her a smile. The look on her face was clear displeased. “She was born in America. She doesn’t know Vietnamese,” my father quickly told her, apologizing for my lack of knowledge. I felt embarrassed, lowering my head whenever she came near us. It was not my fault that I did not know my native language, but it was not my fault entirely for being able to learn it all these

After reading the title, “The Yellow Wallpaper”, no one is able to truly understand what they’re about to read. After thoroughly reading the story however, you are able to clearly understand what the “Yellow Wallpaper” actually means. The story begins to make even more sense after researching the author, Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

Wallace exhibited different psychotic behaviors throughout his writing. For instance his senior year of high school he was convinced he had a huge gaping open wound on his face and split face with blood seeping out. Wallace became paranoid because he thought others were staring at his perceived facial wound and they was a monster. "They'd seem to stare at me real· Iy funny, and I'd think "Oh God. I'm really making them sick, they see it. I've got to hide, get me out of here"( pg 26). Although his parents and doctors tried re-orient him to reality that his face was intact. Wallace was adamant that he had facial wound that he tried to sew up wound but ended up damaging his facial nerve.

The story “Suzy and Leah” written by Jane Yolen is about the relationship of two different girls that live different lives. They didn’t get along at first, but as they got to know each other their perspective change. In this story we learn about both Leah and Suzy and how their relationship among each other. We’re going to learn about Suzy feeling towards Leah and why they changed by the end.