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Originally Posted by phenomshel
Avoiding a mid term essay. I'm supposed to be writing about Amy Tan's story, "Two Kinds". It's either an excerpt from The Joy Luck Club, or a short story based on it. I have to analyze it in terms of three concepts we have discussed in class so far. Those include symbolism, irony, conscious/unconscious, repression, Oedipal/Electra complexes, etc. and so forth. I'm stuck.
Last week the professor gave us a choice between Oedipal/Electra complex and repression. I found both in the selection and ended up getting carried away and turning in a paper twice the length of what she asked for. This week I can't get past the second paragraph!
The story originally caught my interest because I recognized Amy Tan's name, and I subconsciously tied it to the Tiger Mother story that's been in the news. But I'm finding this impossible to analyze. I think it's too late to change stories, too, darn it.
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Oh yes... I know the feeling, my group and I are trying to complete an assignment for a class (Management Information Systems) but... we are in my home... we rather be watching the Boston and St. Antonio game than the MIS class...I want to cry ...