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Stereotypes In Amy Tan's The Joy Club

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Don't judge a book by its cover...or someone's intelligence by her English - Amy Tan. Not by the contents on the outside, but by the contents on the inside. We all have been prejudged on age, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, and etc. Amy Tan experienced being judged as being Asia American that struggles with the average stereotype of being an engineer. Struggling with writing and speaking a form of "broken English" prejudging her mother's ability to speak and comprehend English.

There was a question asked to Tan of: "Why there aren't any Asian Americans represented in American literature?" Gathered by Tan the average Asian American student as a whole, score better on math test than they do on an English test. Finding that teachers they have are steering them away from writing to math and science. Which happened personally to Tan in college and as a writer. Tan became rebellious and enjoyed the challenges of the disproving assumptions by becoming an English major her first year of college, after being enrolled as a pre-med student. She began writing nonfiction articles as a freelancer, after she was told by her boss that her worst skill was writing. In 1985 she began to write fiction articles like The Joy Luck Club to demonstrate what she thought will prove the mastery of wittily crafted sentences ever the English …show more content…

By having Tan posing as her mother and talking to people that was rude to my mother on the phone. Facing the obstacles of convincing her stockbroker that she is who she said she was after speaking perfect English to get them to cooperate with her mother. Even though Tan thought her mother's English sounded perfectly clear and natural. She heard it as vivid, direct, full of observation, and imagery. Preserved of neither English nor a Chinese structure, but a language that helped to shape the way Tan saw things, expressed, and made sense

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