I liked the haircut and it made me actually look forward "You look like Negro Chinese." she lamented, as if I had done this on purpose to my future fame. I now had hair the length of a boys, with straight across bangs that hung at a slant two inches above my eyebrows. "Peter Pan is very popular these days, the instructor assured my mother.
My mother dragged me to the bathroom and tried to wet down my hair The instructor of the beauty training school had to lop of these sosy dumps to make my hair even again. Instead of getting bigat curs, emerged with an uneven mass of crinkly black fuzz. Twords 223 Soon after my mother got this idea about Shirley Temple, she took me to a beauty train ing school in the Mission district and put me in the hands of a student who could barely hold the scissors without shaking. Don't need talent for crying." "Nikam," said my mother as Shirley s eyes flooded with tears.
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We'd watch Shirley's old movies on TV as though they wanita von Shirley tapping her feet, or singing a sailor song, or pursing her lips into a ver 5 round while saying, "Oh my goodness. At first my mother thought! could be a Chinese Shirley Temple. There were so many ways for things to get better We didn't immediately pick the right kind of prodigy. She had come here in 1949 after losing everything in China: her mother and father, her family home, her first husband, and two daughters twin baby girls. What does Auntie Lindo know? Her daughter, she is only best tricky America was where all my mother's hopes lay. You could become instantly famous "Of course you can be prodigy, too," my mother told me when I was nine. You could buy a house with almost no money down. You could work for the government and get good retirement. Two kinds (1989) My mother believed you could be anything you wanted to be in America. "Two kinds" is taken from The Joy Luck Club. She collaborates with novelist Stephen King, cartoonist Matt Grocesy novelist Barbara Kingsolver, and humorist Dave Barry in a "literary garage band, the Rai Bottom Remainders," wtich raises money for literacy causes and also for groups red First Amendment rights. The Moon Lady (1992) and SAGWA The Chinese Siamese Cat (1994). The Hundred Secret Senses (1995), Bonesetter's Daughter (2001), which had been earlier excerpted for publication in The Nex Yorker, Saving Fish from Drowning (2005), and The Valley of Amazement (20131 T luas also written two dildren's books. By 1985 she had decided to do bend to the writing of fiction, and she launched her career in 1986 with the publication of her short story, "End Game." In 1989 her The Joy Luck Club, an interlinked collection of some major books are The Kitchen God's Wife (1991). After graduating she did freelance business writ ing for commes such as IBM and Pacific Bell. colleges, including San Jose State University, where she graduated with hontors in 1972 and receited an MA in 1973. Her family endured the timely deaths of her father and brother in 19, and the remaining family spent time afterward in Switzerland She attended a number of U.S. Early in her life she exhibited talent as a writer, winning a first prize for essay writing at the age of eight. 1952) Amy Tan was born in Oakland, California, several years after her parents had left their native China to settle in the San Francisco Bay Area. What is the significance of the young couple near the story's end? What Miss B response to them? What is happening to Miss Brill as the story ends? in so detailed a way? AM AMY TAN (b. Why does Mansfield described these scenes, viche 4. Miss Brill observes a number of people who are walking in the park, and sheet some of their conversations.
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