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Two Kinds Character Analysis
This is my assignment for the short story “Two Kinds”

The main character is Jing-mei that is forced to play piano by her mother. The mother wants her daughter to be a prodigy. The mother is fascinated by the American dream. She thinks that you need to work your way up. However, Jing-mei do not want to be someone else. She cannot play piano. She says that it would not happen. She only wants to be herself. The mother hire a professional pianist that should teach her daughter to play piano.

Some examples of the American dream from the text:
“My mother believed you could be anything you wanted to be in America. You could open a restaurant…. You could become rich. You could become famous easily.”

The mother had a set of ideals of that you easily could become anything you want in America. That you could start from the bottom, and easily become rich. If you just work determined. She realized it then she came to San Francisco in 1949 after losing everything in China. She lost her mother and father, her home, her first husband, and two daughters, twin baby girls. However, she never looked back with regret. She understood that she had the opportunity to start a new life.
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Her mother says that she do have to play piano. However, she can’t play it. She felt it like her mother doesn’t like her, by the person she is. Her mother just want her to be something special. She get angry at herself, because she can’t anything. However, later she realized that she is unique. That she doesn’t need to be something, other people wants her to be. She agree a little with the American dream. She just want to be herself. However, she finds a solution. She said so her mother, that she doesn’t want to be, that her mother want her to be. She wants to make prosperity with her own life, by her

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