between American and Chinese Society In the story Two Kinds by Amy Tan‚ Jing Mei‚ a Chinese American girl struggles with her identity and learning how to balance her mother’s wants with her needs. Jing- Mei’s mother feels that obedience to her should come first and following her own aspirations should not be a consideration. With the pressures of pleasing her mother and still discovering one’s shelf‚ Jing-Mei searches for balance but finds conflict‚ confusion‚ and disdain. In the beginning‚ Jing-Mei
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Story Analysis－Two Kinds In the story “Two Kinds”‚ the author‚ Amy Tan‚ intends to make reader think of the meaning behind the story. She doesn’t speak out as an analyzer to illustrate what is the real problem between her and her mother. Instead‚ she uses her own point of view as a narrator to state what she has experienced and what she feels in her mind all along the story. She has not judged what is right or wrong based on her opinion. Instead of giving instruction of how to solve a family
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Josh A. Robertson Prof. Villarreal 1302 4/8/13 Paper 3 “Two Kinds” Amy Tan In Amy Tan’s short story “Two Kinds” Jing-Mei‚ the story’s main character‚ takes a stand against her mother. The story opens as she describes her childhood‚ which was full of pain and resentment caused by never becoming the “prodigy” that her mother desperately wanted her to be. Despite her best intentions‚ Jing-Mei always fell short of her mother’s expectations and one night‚ she made a pact to herself that she would
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before attaining their goals. Some of the conflicts they faced similar and others were different. In Chains and “Independence Hall”‚ there were external and internal obstacles. Isabel had faced many internal and external conflicts in Chains. One internal conflict Isabel faced was when Curzon asked Isabel to be a spy for the patriots “He stopped beside a barricade. The brim of his hat cast his face in shadow. ‘You might hear things. At the Lockton house.’ ‘What kind of things?’ ‘Useful things. Things that
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In Amy tans short stories Rules of the Game‚ Fish Cheeks‚ and Two Kinds use themes concerning the boundaries and relationships between mothers and daughters. Asian culture‚ particularly Chinese culture plays an important role in all three short stories‚ giving the traditional conflicts an interesting plot. Amy tans short stories mainly describe the troubles and tension between Chinese immigrant mothers and their Americanized daughters through their shared adventures in an entertaining way. The daughters
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My first genre is a diary from the perspective of Jing-mei from “Two Kinds”‚ by Amy Tan. Although it is not known if she kept a diary in the story‚ I imagined what it might look like if she did. I wrote what her day might have been like if there was no conflict whatsoever. Her day is uninteresting and just a skeleton of what it could be. Although on the other hand‚ I wrote what her diary would look like for a day filled with conflict. Although she is fighting with her mother‚ the day would be exciting
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Most children struggle to establish who they are. In ‘Two Kinds’‚ does Jing-Mei know who she is or is she struggling because of her mother’s view? Throughout the entire story‚ her mother is pushing her daughter to be the best or to be a prodigy which leads Jing-Mei to struggle within herself on who she can be. As she struggled‚ she had two halves pulling at her which was her mother’s expectations and her thoughts telling her she wasn’t anything special. As she grew up‚ she accepted defeat that she
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it was a best seller for nine months (Werlock). Tan believed she was born in the wrong family because her mother was impossible to be pleased (longnecker). In the story of "Two Kinds" Amy Tan whose life is reflected in the Uses the action of mother and daughter to explore mother daughter conflict. The book "Two Kinds" there were a lot of fights between the mother and daughter about being a prodigy or being famous. She didn’t want to be famous she wanted to be herself but that’s what her
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Anne Frank is in a tiny attic that is connected to an office with eight other people. Anne Frank wrote a diary that contains internal and external conflict.Anne Frank internal conflict is that she’s maturing and she has no privacy to do anything‚ and family. Anne Frank also has the external conflict she is being haunted for being a jew. Anne Frank’s biggest internal conflict is that she is maturing and has little to no privacy.She is now questioning things that are more important to humanity. Where
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In the two stories “Tiger mother” by Annie Murphy Paul and “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan both show the tiger mother. In the two articles. They are similarity is because the two mother both force their daughter to learn what they do not want to learn‚ the difference between the two tiger mom is how to face their daughter’s growing. Although they are tiger mom‚ but they both want to build a good relation ship with their daughter. First of all In the two stories‚ they two tiger moms both forced their daughter
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