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Vishal
Literature Comparrative Essay
Honors - Achievement with Distinction
Comparing The Kitchen Gods Wife with Bless Me Ultima
The novel The Kitchen Gods Wife, written by Amy Tan, is illustrating the chinese culture through two womens life. ... For example, in The Kitchen Gods Wife, when Winnie drops the scissors both times, it tells us that something bad is going to happen. Although the Chinese culture does have the kitchen god, the goddess of mercy, the jade emperor, and so on, it is not as if they worship or base their life around these gods as in Tonys life. ... The Kitchen Gods Wife setting is around the time period of the 1920s to the 1990s. ... Although it is possible for these stories to have the same time period, The Kitchen Gods Wife seems to have a more modern and realistic effect. ... I think readers can more easily relate to The Kitchen Gods Wife because of its modern effect despite the stories and legends that are also in the chinese culture. ... The tone in The Kitchen Gods Wife is mostly tragic with a hint of romanticism and a never ending hopfulness for Winnie Louie. ... With The Kitchen Gods Wife, you see more of a general culture. ... In The Kitchen Gods Wife, whenever something disastrous might happen, they pray to Kwan Yin for protection and ask for forgiveness. ... In The Kitchen Gods Wife, Pearl has had multiple scerlosis for a couple of years and no doctors have done anything about it. ... Although in The Kitchen Gods Wife we dont actually know that Pearl gets a cure, we see how the elders trust the old herbs more than the new doctors.
Approximate Word count = 1599
Approximate Pages = 6.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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