English Literature
It should be entirely up to the child to choose which path they wish to take in life. Granted, that choice may need to be guided by the child’s parents or role models but ultimately, their decisions should be their own. In her novel, The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan addresses the relationship between children and their parents and the expectations which the latter lays out for the former. In her case, Tan is Chinese American and has experienced a number of tensions between her Chinese parents’ designs for her life and her own. This idea of two generations, ...
