Here is the synopsis of our sample research paper on Storytelling: A Gathering of Old Men" and "The Joy Luck Club"
. Have the paper e-mailed to you 24/7/365.
Essay / Research Paper Abstract
This 3 page paper discusses the ways the two novels "A Gathering of Old Men" and "The Joy Luck Club" tell their stories, and what it means. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Page Count:
3 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_HVGatJoy.rtf
Buy This Term Paper »
Unformatted sample text from the term paper:
and daughters. They are Chinese, but at the same time, universal. Ernest Gainess novel A Gathering of Old Men explores the way in which the relationships in the South are
changing. Both novels are character driven, but they are very different. This paper explores the differences in the way the stories are told, and what that tells us. Discussion The
Joy Luck Club is a story of mothers and daughters; specifically four pairs of mothers and daughters, and even more specifically, mothers who were born in China and came to
the U.S., and their daughters who were born here. When the Communists came to power in China, American-Chinese relations, cordial until then, came to an abrupt end (Schnell). The two
nations became so hostile to each other "that people on both sides of the widening divide seemed to lose the ability to even imagine reconciliation" (Schnell). There was another consequence
to the political turmoil: those Chinese who had already left their homeland were suddenly cut off from it (Schnell). Older Chinese, like the mothers in Amy Tans book, had memories
of China before Mao to sustain them, but their daughters had no such connection to their history (Schnell). "Seeing old China as hopelessly backward, and contemporary China as besmirched by
Communism, many in this new generation of Chinese-Americans wanted nothing more than to distance themselves as far as possible from the zuguo, or motherland" (Schnell). This was impossible for
them, because they were obviously Oriental and couldnt blend in the way the children of Europeans could; and so they felt torn between parents who spoke only Chinese and clung
to memories of life in China, and a desire to move into the American middle class (Schnell). When things began to normalize in the 1970s, the older emigrants "welcomed the
...