The Kitchen God's Wife

Introduction

Amy Tan Kitchen God's Wife wrote about his mother, Daisy. Most of the stories of Winnie the novel Daisy of nature, including the difficult life and marriage remained in the pre-communist China. The presentation of the history of Winnie, she tells her story in the Pearl of oral tradition. Tan, like Pearl, had never thought of her mother's life in China, and was impressed with what he learned.

So when he began his second novel, he wanted to avoid rehashing of material and ideas from his best-selling novel of the first, Joy Luck Club. She kidnapped relaxing music and incense, realizing that loneliness was her recipe for the next novel. Despite several attempts to write about something else, the story of God's kitchen wife cried saying, and Tang realized that the desire for diversity was not a good reason to write about one topic to another. Thus, issues of God share the kitchen with his wife some Joy Luck Club. Theme of alienation also appears in both newspapers. Despite its resemblance to the first novel, her second novel, won the acclaim of readers and critics of the Tang. His novels contain many stories that converge in a single operation, and Tang admires his ability to move from past to present in its history (Cheng, Pp: 15, 19).

Plot Overview

Kitchen God's Wife opens the narrative voice of Pearl Louie Brandt, daughter of a Chinese mother and Chinese-American father, a professional life of a therapist in San Jose. Pearl's mother, Winnie Louie, Pearl asked Pearl request to ask her daughter to attend a cousin's involvement on the part of Pearl in San Francisco. Now, Pearl believes that the reluctance of his mother because she is more complex in their American identity, perhaps as a result of her marriage to Phil, an American of Chinese origin. However, he feels an obligation to take part in the celebrations of his family, and he knows he would feel guilty otherwise. Then, two days before the party's participation, Pearl receives another call from his mother told him that Aunt Du is dead and the funeral will be held the next day after attending the party (Caesar, Pp: 164-74). Therefore, all on his shoulders, Pearl set for San Francisco with her daughters, Tessa and Cleo, and her husband.

After returning to his childhood home, Aunt Pearl, Helen, the baby's mother, who co-owned a flower shop with her mother pearl, pearl away and made a request. Aunt Helen said, should tell you Wenni Ming Pearl Pearl Master, who in the family, everyone knows, in addition to Winnie mother (Cheng, Pp: 15, 19). Elena said that Pearl should do, because Elena believes that Helen malignant brain tumor, do not want to die knowing his daughter Winnie know. Helen took to say the truth if he did not tell his mother, Helen will have to do it myself. Later, Helen and her mother, Winnie the Pooh party and told her that he had solved the mysterious past of her daughter, ...