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    2012 Prof. Wright Assignment: “Two Kinds” Piano “Two Kinds” By Amy Tan is about Jing Mei mother who is clear in her daughter’s goals. She want Jing Mei to be a prodigy and famous. Her mother send her to the hair solon to make her look like Shirley Temple. She also forces Jing Mei to take piano lesson and soon has a recital‚ Jing Mei was confident to play. Her mother invites their auntie Lindo because she stretches out the truth that Jing Mei

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    Two Kinds "Two Kinds" is truly an amazing work; it captivates readers by telling a story of a young girl trying to find herself. Amy Tan does a phenomenal job‚ not only by portraying a very real mother-daughter relationship‚ but at showing how much a young girl can change. Jing-Mei evolves throughout the story in a way that many people can relate to; crushed hopes‚ obeying your parents even if it means doing something you don ’t want to do‚ and finally standing up for what you believe

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    story ’Two Kinds’ written by Amy Tan is from 1989‚ and it delineates a mother’s attempt to push her daughter into achieving a prodigious lifestyle. The mother is an immi-grant from China‚ but her daughter is born in America. The cultural difference of their upbringing and childhood results in different values and ideals of how the individual person should become‚ and this is one of the main themes that constitute the short story. The narrator of the story is a Chinese-American girl‚ and she has an

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    Literature: Reading‚ Reacting‚ Writing‚ 5th Edition Laurie Kirszner and Stephen Mandell Table of Contents Preface 1. Understanding Literature Imaginative Literature Conventional Themes The Literary Canon Luisa Valenzuela‚ “All about Suicide” Wole Soyinka‚ “Telephone Conversation” Thinking Critically Interpreting Literature Evaluating Literature The Function of Literary Criticism Checklist: Evaluating Literary Criticism 2. Reading and Writing About Literature

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    The story “Two Kinds‚” written by Amy Tan‚ has a plot that many people can relate to while growing up as a child. The theme of the story is that there are two kinds of people: the one the mother wants her to be and the one Jing-mei (the protagonist and narrator of the story) strives to be. Both mother and daughter in the story have a very complicated relationship. The mother believes that you could become anything you wanted in America. The author emphasizes that Jing-mei’s mother tries to dominate

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    In “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan‚ two kinds of perspectives bring a new meaning to the ordinary American dream. Jing-Mei‚ the daughter of Suyuan Woo‚ a Chinese immigrant mother strongly believes in living the American Dream. In Order to live the life they wish Suyuan had hopes in fame. Their American fairytale to journey lavishly included an astonishing talent. They would practice mocking the famous Shirley Temple. As a mother and daughter they became partners by trying to make Jing-Mei have a talent that

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    What is an Artist? Art is a very wonderful thing. A great painting enriches our experience of life‚ just as a great poem does or a great musical composition‚ since great painters make us feel and think a great deal more than the objects before us. They teach us to appreciate the beauty and harmony of colors and light through their eyes. They share their imagination with us and invite us into an exciting world of painting. Once discovered and entered‚ however‚ this world can never be forgotten.

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    English 103-276 January 17‚ 2011-01-17 Two Kinds Amy Tan In the short story “Two Kinds”‚ Amy Tan uses the narrator’s point of view to share a mother’s attempt to control her daughter’s dreams and ambitions. Tan`s short story is an example of how differing personalities cause struggles between a parent and child. Children often fall victim to a parent trying too hard or expectations being too high‚ and in the case of "Two Kinds‚" we see Jing Mei’s mother trying to live her life through that of Jing

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    The central struggle in Amy Tan ’s story "Two Kinds" is a battle of wills between the narrator‚ a young Chinese American girl‚ and her mother‚ a Chinese immigrant. "Two Kinds" is a coming-of-age story‚ in which the narrator‚ Jing-mei‚ struggles to forge her own sense of identity in the face of her strong-willed mother ’s dream that she become a "prodigy." Jing-mei is caught between her Chinese mother ’s traditional ideas about how to raise a daughter‚ and her own development as a Chinese American

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    Plot "Two Kinds tells of a woman and daughter expecting a great life in America. The daughter‚ Jing-mei‚ wants desperately to become a "Chinese Shirley Temple" by making a career in singing and dancing. Her mother is consumed in the belief that Jing-mei is a genius‚ thus making her do pointless tests that she sees other prodigy children doing in magazines such as standing on her head and reciting world capitals. All of this proves to be useless and the idea begins to fade away until Jing-mei’s mother

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