ENG 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Amy Tan

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: English
• Course: ENG 1120
• Professor: Natalie Taylor

Document Summary

Coming of age trying to reject mother"s ideas. The girl is trying herself sense of power and sense of identity (link to wizard of earthsea) The girl wants play piano yet she has a deaf piano teacher. Two person dynamic where two people depend on the other to be their enemy or opponent . The beginning of the story has a mix of comedy and tragedy. She has a fantasy that everything has to go well. She is pining everything (all her hopes) on her daughter it"s all on you . The mother wanted her to be a chinese shirley temple . Images of shirley temple, peter pan, cinderella, ballerina, christ child. Irrational and unrealistic images the images are mocking each other. The mother is trying various hopes/dreams no understanding of this culture rags to riches no actual practice. The girl was excited (when she is 9 years old) The mother"s sources of information aren"t reliable.