Analysis Of The Story 'Amigo Brothers' By Amy Tan

I think every conflict has a winner but in the resolution of a conflict there is also a loser. But what

do people actually consider winning I think this is a question that can be answered emotionally

and mentally.

In the story "Amigo Brothers" the conflict is the boxing match the two friends Antonio and Felix

have a match against each other and they have to put aside the fact of them being best friends.

When the fight ends and the winner is being announced the two friends leave the place not

giving a care in the world about who won the match worrying more about their brother like

relationship being intact. In this story there was a winner not only in the ring but also outside of

it. The two friends both won the conflict by walking away deciding that their friendship is more

important than who one a boxing match.

In the story "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan, the conflict is that Amy wants to make her mother proud

but is also upset at the fact that her mother won't accept Amy for who she really is. In the

story

Amy and her mom end up having an argument which ends in Amy yelling at her and saying

something that upset her mom. From that point her mother stood in silence not having shown a

reaction towards Amy's comment, but also having changed their mother daughter relationship.

In this story Amy won by ending the argument but did she really win? Amy even though she

"won" she also ended up losing the conflict affecting the relationship she had with her mom and

also lost when her mother died years later.

Now my own experience. My brother although 5 years old has conflicts with me all the time.

One time him and I were having an argument about a game in which I got really mad and yelled

at him which caused him to cry. I won the conflict because I made him stop but I lost because I

made him cry and it made me feel really bad about what I did. Later that day my mom also

yelled at me again making me feel even more bad.

In the end I believe that although conflicts do have winners there is also a loser. You can win a

conflict mentally but emotionally you could have lost. Like in "Two Kinds" by yelling at her mom

Amy won by stating her side and leaving her mom speechless she also lost emotionally by

ruining her relationship with her mother and losing her years later. Every conflict does have a

winner but not every winner is exactly actually "winning".