Amy Tan's Two Kinds: Literary Analysis

Do you believe that culture can change perspective in the way you view or do things, or even how you are viewed? Culture can inform perspective in the way a person thinks of such things differently, this is shown in the stories “An Indian Father’s Plea” by Lake, and “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker. A different view is viewed in “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan. These authors explain within their stories that a character, most likely the main character, is taught differently the same views, and they view things different than others. The positions to these stores can be be viewed the same way, besides maybe one story. In “An Indian Father’s Plea” by Lake, the position can stand to qualify what is being told because of the fact that his son isn’t a …show more content…
This story can be said that the author's position in culture changes one's perspective is disagreed on because the mother believed that in America, you could be anything you wanted to be, and she taught that to her daughter for many years, but her daughter didn’t seem to get it. As growing up, she wanted her daughter to be a prodigy. The daughter, later on didn’t believe in herself to be a prodigy like her mother wanted her to be. “I won’t let her change me, I promised myself” (Tan 23). Jing-mei, the daughter, didn’t have the same view as her mother did, although her mother taught her everything she, herself, believed in for so many years. JIng-mei didn’t adapt to those beliefs, on what her culture was all based around of when growing up. “For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be, I could only for me” (Tan 28). Even through the years, Jing-mei still didn’t believe all that her mother did. Her culture of what she was taught was right in America, didn’t stick to her. It's not that she didn’t all the way believe that you couldn't do anything, it's just that she didn’t believe that she, herself, could do anything. She was viewed differently since she, in many ways, disappointed her

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