Compare And Contrast Catch The Moon And Two Kinds

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Listening to your parents is very important. However some children have trouble listening or complying with their parents instructions and/or wishes. Although “Catch the Moon” and “Two Kinds” both share the fact that both children cannot understand their parents and have trouble communicating between them, there is a critical difference in the way that the parents want of their kids. Also, the two children are dynamic. They change throughout the story. “Catch the Moon” is about a father who works at Jorge Cintron & Son, selling hubcaps and his son, Luis is an employee. Luis is also a troubled teenager. “Two Kinds” is about an ABC (American Born Chinese) whose mother wants her to become a professional piano player. There are many similarities between …show more content…
Some similarities are how both of the children do not understand their parents and how their parents don’t understand their children. The main question seems to be like, “What do my parents want of me? They seem to be not satisfied with anything I do.” In “Catch the Moon,” the father, Jorge Cintron, doesn’t understand why his son had to create that gang. His son had been in so much trouble. He had just gotten out of juvenile prison for breaking into an old lady’s house, courtesy of his gang. “....calling it disgusting and vulgar….” (Cofer 64). However, “Luis thought it was just his way of staying busy since Luis’s mother had died, almost three years ago, of cancer. He had never gotten over it” (Cofer 65). The reason why Luis does this is to compensate for his mother’s loss. Many people grieve by becoming withdrawn. In “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan, the two don’t understand each other, just like in the first story. Jing-mei, the daughter, of Suyuan, a Chinese immigrant who fled from China after she lost everything in 1949. Suyuan believes in the American dream. Nothing is impossible, so she wants the “best” for her child. However Jing-mei doesn’t want her mother to do all this. Suyuan is confused...why? Why
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