Every Use and Two Kinds

Introduction to American Literature – 4

Read the following questions that pertain to the stories you have read by Amy Tan and Alice Walker. Respond with one detailed, substantial post. Your response should be a solid paragraph, not just one or two lines. In your answer, include examples, such as short quotes from your reading.

What do you think is the main conflict for the main character of each story?
How does each character resolve the conflict?
How does each character’s ethnic background influence her decision

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Army Tan and Alice Walker short stories Everyday Use and Two kinds have a similar theme that of realization. They use their characters to define the how characters fail to understand each other until a certain time where they realize themselves and had a change of the way they perceive things. In Every Use by Walker mother has a problem with her two daughters where she takes Maggie to be a lame animal. In Two Kinds Jing Mei struggle with her mother when she tries to turn her into something she did not like making her to sabotage herself. Conflicts in these two narrations are about not understanding each other facing much resistance from each other………….

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