Amika Taniguchi is an ambitious woman who has lived an imperfect life. Amika, sometimes known as Amy, is a loving mother of two kids, Kiarra and Liam. She married young and is now divorced. Being a single mom, she works hard to provide for her kids while also spending time with herself. She has to travel a lot for work giving up the limited time she gets with her kids. Her life may not be perfect but she will always be remembered as someone who loved life and never gave up. Family has always been an important part of Amy’s life. One of her earliest memories is camping with her parents and their friends. Making memories is one of her favorite things to do. She loves going to new places and exploring new things. River rafting at the Grand canyon
is on her list of adventures. Her perfect day wouldn't need to be a lot, just spending time with her kids at the lake is enough. While Amy is an adventures women she still takes times to appreciate the little things in life. If she could go back and relive any moment in her life she would want to hold her kids when they were babies one more time. She believes that those moments are so precious and she will never get them back. She has been inspired by so many people but her previous boss has impacted her the most. She learned how to balance her life and work and things about the business. Although Amy is happy now, her life hasn't always been this great. She grew up with loving parents, nice things, and always had opportunities to do whatever she wanted. But once it was time to leave home it was really hard for her. Going to college was definitely different but she enjoyed every minute of it. She found out she was pregnant with her daughter Kiarra in college and they got married. Things didn't work out and they got divorced. Although she knew this was the right thing it was very hard for her and still is. She gets less time with her kids and has to work more to provide for her kids. The best advice she has been given after all that has happened in her life was, “fake it till you make it.”
At the beginning of the story, Amy is a gangly and awkward pre-teen, not caring what others think, playing in mud, and painting on her skin with the blue clay from the creek. As summer comes to an end, Amy stops dressing in her grungy t-shirts and cut off jean shorts, and more like her popular preppy friends at school, as it is more important to her that she wears what her friends wear, rather than what she likes to wear. At school, all of her friends’ names end with an “i”, so hers changes to
Every family has secrets. Taboo secrets are typically the one's we'd like to keep hidden the most. Unfortunately, what's done in the dark always finds itself resurfacing to the light. In Allison Bechdel "Fun Home", she recollects the memories that impacted her life the most when she was in the stage of discovering her true self. The memories we remember the most tend to play a major role in our life development. For Allison, one well-kept secret that her father contained well from her, unraveled many memories of the truth that laid before her eyes.
A. Creech accounted for many memories during her early childhood years. She took many trips with her parents and four siblings. She enjoyed the company of others and making memories. Often, grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins, and friends visited her and her family, making her always used to warm, large, extended family. Her favorite memories came from Creech’s traditional summer vacations to various destinations. She loved road tripping with her “noisy and rowdy family” across the country. Her never-forgotten memories eventually led to her recreation of the trip into many of her books.
Amy Tan, in ?Mother Tongue,? Does an excellent job at fully explaining her self through many different ways. It?s not hard to see the compassion and love she has for her mother and for her work. I do feel that her mother could have improved the situation of parents and children switching rolls, but she did the best she could, especially given the circumstances she was under. All in all, Amy just really wanted to be respected by her critics and given the chance to prove who she is. Her time came, and she successfully accomplished her goals. The only person who really means something to her is her mother, and her mother?s reaction to her first finished work will always stay with her, ?so easy to read? (39).
Not too long ago, grandparents will tell family stories to their grandchildren. Parents will also tell their children family stories. Those family stories will contain family history, struggle and heroism of family members. Also, those stories will pass down the family values and traditions to the next generations. Now a days, most parents read stories from books to their children. Family story telling is an almost lost tradition because it is not practiced anymore. In her short story “Everyday Use”, Alice walker illustrates the importance of keeping a tradition alive other than preserving it.
As a little girl I remember going Morrel mushroom hunting with my maternal grandparents and cousins at my great-grandmothers property. My great-grandmother raised sheep until she was 86 years old and the family had to sell them for her safety. She was crawling across the road in the winter to care for them. I remember her always heaving at least one “bottle baby” in the house every year; the grand kids loved to help her feed them. I always loved going to her house on the weekend and making molasses cookies with her and drinking hot
In reading Carolyn Kay Steedman's Landscape for a Good Woman, two themes took center stage: Memories and Motherhood. As the book unfolds Steedman repeatedly points out that childhood memories are used by individuals for various purposes; rather than objective recollections dominated by facts, she proposes that they are more subjective in nature, likely to alter with time or as circumstances dictate.
In the beginning of the novel, we see her interact with her husband as they are struggling to survive in their middle class social system. It’s easy to dislike Amy Reardon; although she maintains a household, for a while, she cares more about her image than her actual marriage. However, if one considers that during this era image meant everything, Amy’s character becomes more relatable. Amy’s husband ultimately expects too much from his wife. As a writer who refuses to write anything but volumes in a literary changing world, he gives Amy no choice but to leave him. Amy expects little from her husband except the maintenance of a middle class lifestyle, including: a maid, stylish, new clothes, and attendance at societal parties. At the beginning of their marriage, Amy married Edwin Reardon thinking that one day he would be an established, well-off writer. However, due to his stubbornness, he begins declination in wealth quickly. Amy pushes her husband to write something (anything, really) to bring in money. In fact, after he asks her if they can move to a smaller, cheaper place, she urges him “but think what it means, to give up our home and position. That is open confession of failure. It would be horrible” (86). Amy would rather Edwin sacrifices artistic views/ideology in order for her to live comfortably. But in the world the Reardon’s live in, image means everything; therefore, Amy doesn’t
Throughout her entire life Amy, the main character in Gone Girl’s movie adaptation, was faced with unobtainable standards that were impossible to reach. This is enough to drive even the strongest of people mad. Due to her parents novel of “Amazing Amy”, she was forced to play the part of the cool girl, and never truly was able to express herself throughout her life. The only part of the novel that truly occurred was that both versions of “Amy” were married. She would go to great lengths to express herself as an individual.
* She tries to remember what it was like for her family to travel to
Amy was born in Enfield, London, in England September 14, 1983. She was raised into a culturally jewish family, but they didn’t consider themselves religious. Amy’s mother was Janis Winehouse, she was a pharmacist. Her father was Mitchell Winehouse. He was a part-time taxi driver. Amy also had an older sibling, Alex. He helped his mother around the house with Amy, at the young age of only four. Growing up in Southgate was rough for Amy and Alex. Amy’s uncles who were professional jazz musicians, she wanted to follow in their footsteps.
This book Amy Carmichael was so interesting for me to read. I chose to read this book because I found out some very intriguing information about Amy and what drove her to be the loving, and kindhearted woman that the people of India saw. I was also curious to read one of Kathleen White’s books because I had heard that her book were very detailed and fun to read. Amy was so self-less and as I said before loving, Amy was able to take care of her siblings without bickering. Amy was also able to get along with her parents fairly well because of her tranquil and easygoing personality.
By then, Amy had met her soon-to-be husband, Nick. Nick had gone to the dinner party with Amy to celebrate her parent’s book release, the party was a staged engagement party for Amazing Amy, in which he posed as a reporter while she was being interviewed and asked her to marry him. Fast forward five years later and their marriage is falling apart. The recession left Nick who was once a successful writer for a men’s magazine jobless. Nick’s mother at the time was dying, and so he moved Amy and himself to rural Missouri to be able to take care of her. Included in her explanation of all the ways that Nick failed her as a husband, his cheating was the tipping point for her. Watching him take his much younger, once his student, mistress on the same date he took Amy on years prior set off her agenda in ruining his
Looking back on a childhood filled with events and memories, I find it rather difficult to pick on that leaves me with the fabled “warm and fuzzy feelings.” As the daughter of an Air Force Major, I had the pleasure of traveling across America in many moving trips. I have visited the monstrous trees of the Sequoia National Forest, stood on the edge of the Grande Canyon and have jumped on the beds at Caesar’s Palace in Lake Tahoe. However, I have discovered that when reflecting on my childhood, it is not the trips that come to mind, instead there are details from everyday doings; a deck of cards, a silver bank or an ice cream flavor.
The air is really fresh, and the wind is comfortable. Grandma usually opened the window during the daytime; I still remembered that feeling when the sunshine came in house and scatter. I walking among those numerous grand trees and admire colored leaves on the trees and on the ground. I miss that feeling of calmness and stability of the world around. I wish I could return the reality of those feelings once more. Memories in mind and never forget about happiness of staying in my grandmother’s house. Grandparent’s time-honored gift to their grandchildren is their unconditional love, unfettered by schedules, routines or commitments. They reinforced their grandchildren’s sense of security and self-value.