In The Bonesetter's Daughter Relationship Essay

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Nearly two decades after Amy Tan was born, she began to uncover information that her family previously withheld from her. As time went on it, it started to consume her every thought, she found writing as an escape and used it as a tool to discover who she was individually. Many speculate as to whether Tan’s literature is a direct reflection of her personal experiences, there are countless similarities between the two. Tan and her mother had many barriers to overcome throughout the course of their relationship, and most of Tan’s work reflects distressed mother-daughter relationships. Although, Tan does not confirm that her personal situations are a direct reflection of her literature, we can actually correlate and relate almost all of her work …show more content…

While still exploring the world of language and culture, Tan seems to “represent a more fully developed reworking of issues about identity and language” (jstor.org, Dunick). Lisa Dunick suggests, “In The Bonesetter's Daughter, Tan creates the possibility for the reception of cultural and personal memory in the American daughter because the daughter, in effect, becomes the reader of her mother's text” (jstor.org, Dunick). I think that Dunick was in fact true in her findings, which further proves that Amy tan is finding herself through her writing. Tan’s intimate correlations between her personal life and her literature become less cloudy as her literary career …show more content…

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