"The Hundred Secret Senses"

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A paper which explores important ethnic issues in Amy Tan's "The Hundred Secret Senses" - one of the most important being how the novel emphasizes the differences between East and West through its two main characters and how each has much to learn from the other.

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"The Hundred Secret Senses" is Amy Tan's third novel and received positive response from the readers because of her earlier successes namely "The Joy Luck Club" and "Kitchen God's Wife". The book as her earlier works is a beautiful blend of east and west and the writer herself coming from a Chinese family brings an element of Oriental culture and values in the Hundred Secrets Senses too. While the storyline is definitely unique in its own way, it is important to understand that it is not the plot for which Amy Tan is famous but it is her wonderful and lively characters, their amazing and rather incredible powers and their ability to bring something different to everyday American life that makes her novels interesting and gripping. The readers may not always be able to relate to those characters but they are special because they open new vistas and introduce the readers to a world they didn't know existed."

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