Cyber Bullying Should Be a Criminal Law

Not being able to choose who you are and what you do with your life is very difficult. In the story Two Kinds, a little girl named Ni Kan has to go through a tough childhood with a very controlling mother. Her mother demands her to be nothing but famous when she grows up. Ni Kan at first loved the thought of her being famous. But after a lot of tests her mother gave her and training, she got sick of it. The tests got a lot harder the more she did. “The tests got harder, multiplying numbers in my head, finding the queen of hearts in a deck of cards, try to stand on my head without using my hands.” She did nothing but practice with her mother to be famous. Her mother was making Ni Kan do something she didn't even want to do. She didn't want to be famous, she wanted to be her own person and grow up like normal child.

The idea for piano lessons at the heart of this particular story's conflict comes from television and popular magazines. Ni Kan and her mother watch Shirley Temple movies, trying to imagine her as a child star. They even go so far as to get her hair styled to make her look like the blond, curly haired Temple. The mother also reads countless "stories about remarkable children" in the magazines she brings home from the houses she cleans.

Imagine growing up and not being able to play outside with your friends or go to a normal school with your classmates. Or your parents not asking you what you want to be when you grow up because they already know what they want you to be. That is a terrible way to grow up and thats what Ni Kan had to go through. She was raised to be a golden child, and nothing else. Her mother wanted her to look up to Shirley Temple as her role model, inspiration and motivation. Ni Kan didn't want to be like her. Thats not the kind of person she was. She was sick of her mother pushing her around so much to be someone she didn't want to be. She wanted to stick up for herself and try to change her mothers mind about it all. “I