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There is a clear difference in tone in Amy Tan and Firoozeh Dumas essays. A reader would find Amy’s tone in her essay “Fish Cheeks” to be disappointing and embarrassing. In this essay, Amy Tan narrates about how her family embarrassed and disappointed her during a Christmas Eve dinner. She was disappointed by the actions of her relatives. “My relatives licked the ends of their chopsticks and reached across the table, dipping them into the dozen or so plates of food” (111). Their table manners were horrible and disgusting. Amy was not pleased with this behavior, and she saw her crush, Robert, and his family felt uncomfortable. Despite the embarrassing and disappointing tone in Amy Tan’s essay, Firoozeh Dumas’s tone in her essay is humorous.
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