“Two Kinds”‚ Jing-mei woo is also known as June and her personality traits are illustrated throughout the story. June displays impatient tendencies. June does not allow the time it would take to become the creation her mother wants her to be. She asks her mother why she is not happy with her. In response‚ her mother slaps her and tells that she is ungrateful. Jing-mei is resentful towards her mother. Suyuan takes it upon herself to make Jing-mei into a piano prodigy. Jing-mei plots revenge in taking
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mother’s death‚ Luis became distant from his father. Jing-mei was angry at her mother and wanted nothing to do with her mother’s goal of fame. They rebelled in different ways: Luis started his "social group" while Jing-mei refused to give effort towards her mother’s goals. Though their situations were different‚ they both felt that they had disappointed their parents. Luis wanted to rebuild his relationship with his dad while Jing-mei wanted to escape her mother’s persistency. At the end of both
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instill Chinese qualities in her daughter while Waverly refuses to recognize her heritage and concentrates on American culture. The second bond is that of Jing-Mei Woo and her mother‚ Suyuan. In the beginning of the book Jing-Mei speaks of confusion in her recently deceased mother’s actions. The language and cultural barrier presented between Jing-Mei and Suyuan is strong enough to cause constant separation and misunderstanding. The first and most important conflict in the novel is heritage. Both mothers
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them. In the story‚ the protagonist Jiao Mei‚ a Chinese girl‚ has moved and started her new life in England with her father’s ex-lover‚ an English woman called Barbara after her father’s death. She falls in love with an English boy called Ken and is told to be pregnant by her dead grandmother‚ Tie Mei‚ who appears as a ghost and comes for revenge. As requested by Tie Mei‚ Jiao Mei needs to take back the bronze mirror from Barbara‚ which can both help Tie Mei to achieve her wants and save Barbara from
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leading to struggles in self as well as cultural identity. In Amy Tan’s short story‚ A Pair of Tickets‚ the main character Jing-Mei struggles with her cultural and self-identity but ultimately learns to rethink her misconceptions leading to her understanding of what it truly means to be Chinese. In the first section of the story Tan introduces the main character Jing-Mei‚ accompanied by her elderly father Canning Woo on a train to Guangzhou in China where they will visit with some family that Canning
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tension that rages on inside Jing-mei as the battle between what she is by birth and what she is by nature tears her apart when she suddenly discovers her long lost sisters just a month after her mother dies. In "A Pair of Tickets" the protagonist‚ Jing-mei‚ receives a letter from her long lost twin sisters. The sisters are hoping to reunite with their mother but unfortunately Jing-mei’s mother had died briefly before. After receiving this devastating news Jing-mei wages a war within herself. Should
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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 in. Since "You could be anything you wanted to be in America" (Tan 405) Jing-Mei’s mother thought it means anyone can become a prodigy‚ including her daughter‚ in America. While that makes "Everything sound too simple and too easily achieved; Jing-Mei does not paint a
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This is supported through the quote “I soon found out why Old Chong had retired from teaching piano‚ he was deaf!” on page 137. Suyuan eventually entered Jing-Mei in a talent contest but considering she never practices nor tried she was entirely unprepared. She sat down feeling confident‚ but the performance proved a disaster. After the incident at the recital her mother was devastated‚ this is shown through
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her life through that of Jing Mei. The outcome of her mother’s actions soon leads the narrator into feeling tension within herself‚ and between herself and her mother. In the beginning‚ we find Jing-Mei’s mother convincing her that she “can be prodigy…” (Tan 346) and that she “can be best anything.” (Tan 346). The way in which her mother portrays becoming a prodigy as such a wonderful thing for their family‚ Jing Mei quickly falls into her trap. At first Jing-Mei is‚ “just as excited as my mother
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Jing-mei’s story also deals with a clash between a mother’s faith and belief in persistence versus a daughter’s inner sense of futility. Jing-mei believes that she is simply not “fated” to be a prodigy‚ that ultimately there resides within her an unchangeable element of mediocrity. When she tells her reflection in the mirror one night that she will not allow her mother to change her‚ that she will not try to be what she is not‚ she asserts her will in a strong but negative manner. At that moment
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