Summary Of Two Kinds By Amy Tan

Not everyone, in the world, is able to live like an “American”. Having a job, an education, enough food, rights, security are not things that all the countries are able to provide to their population. Living in America is wished by a lot of people who are not living adequately. In China, the quality of life is not the best, with more than 1 billion people living on that land, resources are sometimes not enough for everyone. That is why a lot of Chinese quit China for America to offer a better life to their children. Amy Tan, an American writer, wrote the story “Two Kinds” about a mother who pushes her daughter to become a prodigy. The story begins with a mother that lays all of her hope on her adoptive country and on her daughter. After losing everything in China, she arrives in America in 1949 and gives birth to Jing-Mei. By love for her daughter, she started pushing her to try new things to find her prodigy, but test after test, their relation fell apart. In the text, the mother-daughter relationship is affected by the generational differences of the mother and the daughter. The daughter feels frustrated due to failing her mother’s expectations which leads to a large conflict between the narrator and her mother.

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After the disaster at the piano recital, that her mother forced her to do, what “devastated her” is “her mother’s expression,” which is “quiet, blank look that said she had lost everything.” But after the incident, the mother still expected Jing-Mei, who hated the piano, to continue her lessons. She wanted her daughter to be her best “Who ask you be genius? Only ask you be your best. For you sake.” (Tan 285) and to listen to her advises “only two kinds of daughters, those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind” (Tan 285). This shows us that her mother doesn’t only care for herself, but for her daughter’s

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