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A 4 page paper which examines culture in “A Pair of Tickets” by Amy Tan, “The Lady with the Dog” by Anton Chekhov, and “Everything that Rises Must Converge” by Flannery O’Connor. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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perspectives, depending on the author and the intent of the story. "A Pair of Tickets" by Amy Tan, "The Lady with the Dog" by Anton Chekhov, and "Everything that Rises
Must Converge" by Flannery OConnor are all stories that possess elements of culture. The following paper examines each story separately and then compares them all as they address different aspects
of culture. Culture: Tan, Chekhov, and OConnor In Amy Tans story, which is essentially a chapter from her book "The Joy Luck Club," culture is incredibly important as
this story involves Chinese American and Chinese cultures. The narrator of the book is a Chinese American, yet her mother who has passed away was born and raised in China.
This story involves her going back to China to meet with two half-sisters that her mother thought dead long ago. The fact that Chinese America and Chinese are coming together
indicates an incredibly strong cultural element. This is incredibly evident in the opening paragraph of the story when the narrator states the train has left Hong Kong and entered into
Shenzhen, China where she suddenly feels her skin tingling. She admits, "mother was right. I am becoming Chinese" (Tan 159). She recalls being back in high school and how
her white friends would agree with her that she was about as Chinese as they were, indicating she really possessed little of that culture, as far as she could admit
or tell. Her mother, however, would insist that whether she like it or not she was very much Chinese, "Cannot be helped" (Tan 159). And as the story begins she
realizes that she had "never really known what it was like to be Chinese" until arriving in China (Tan 159). After the story develops, awaiting the meeting of her two
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