locked in a struggle over her identity with her Chinese immigrant mother‚ who believes "that you could be anything you wanted to be in America." This particular struggle invokes the mother’s attempt to mold her daughter‚ Jing-mei‚ into a musical prodigy so that she will be able to brag to her friend Lindo Jong‚ whose daughter is a precocious chess champion. The idea for piano lessons comes from television and popular magazines. The narrator and her mother watch Shirley Temple movies and try to imagine
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the Nile River region‚ and 10‚000 sacks of corn to plant. He gave Pemsah 7‚000 sacks of corn to plant and 15‚000 arura in the eastern. By the end of harvest year‚ Sihathor and Pemsah’s fields yielded respectively 50‚200 and 34‚300 sacks of corn. The number of sacks of
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The portrayal of a character throughout the plot of a short story or novel is essential to the successful picture a reader vividly imagines while interpreting a writer’s text. Main characters in such publications most certainly possess certain traits or characteristics intentionally expressed in order to resonate within the reader. Possible characteristics portrayed through the actions and thoughts of such characters may include: perseverance‚ stubbornness‚ or couragessness. While examining the
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the house very early in the morning with an old jute sack slung across his shoulder. Long ago the sack had contained rice for his family— for his daughters Ine and Clara‚ for his little son Totoy‚ and for his wife Marta. But now the jute sack was bulging with the sharp‚ hard edges of three big stones which he had gathered the night before. "What are those stones for"? Marta asked. "Mister Remulla said we must have three big stones in our sack. He said these stones would represent the three biggest
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The Prodigy of Don Dee Chapter 1: The Beginning Part 1: Hello World! Don Dee was born in the land of Frozen throne‚ though the scourge took him away because of his hidden power. As a frozen throne pride he traveled extensively around the world. During his childhood‚ Don Dee was raised and educated by the sentinels‚ under the guardianship of Nevermore‚ who served as his father and tutor. As a child‚ Don Dee was a member of the Boy Scout of the Philippines‚ where he learned essential skills such
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could accomplish here‚ "America was where all my mother’s hopes lay" (Tan‚ 336). The use of the word "all" emphasizes the extent to which Mrs. Woo believed America would give her a new and better life. This new life included her daughter becoming a prodigy‚ she didn’t know
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Two Kinds The protagonist in Two kinds is a young Chinese girl named Ni Kan. Ni Kan’s mother is an immigrant from China that wants more than any thing for her daughter to be a prodigy. She believes that in America‚ her daughter can be a child star. So she tests her‚ and finds out what other extraordinary kids her age can do‚ and tries to see if her daughter can also do these things. Then one day she decides that her daughter could be an excellent pianist. So she finds a teacher and sets her daughter
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you can be anything you want to be in America even famous. (3) In her search for a better life than the one she left in China‚ the narrator’s mother pushes her daughter to become a child prodigy. (4) The narrator tries to fulfill her mother’s expectations at first. (5) Eventually‚ she does not want to be a prodigy. (6) The differing values between mother and daughter create conflict between them when the narrator begins to fail her mother deliberately. (7) The mother first tries to turn her daughter
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Central conflict between mother and daughter in Alice Walker’s "Everyday Use" and Any Tan’s “Two Kinds” In “Everyday Use” Alice Walker depicts a cultural conflict within a family and explores the concept of heritage. “Everyday Use” tells how a mother eventually rejects the values of her educated daughter and celebrates the values of her younger daughter. The setting of “Everyday Use” takes place in the late 60’s‚ early 70’s. Narrated by the mother of two daughters‚ the story opens with an examination
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Was Mozart the Greatest Composer in History? Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart has to be the greatest composer to ever live. He and his sister were both considered very gifted child prodigies. He started composing music when he was four and he started to write minuets by the age of five. When Mozart was around eight or nine‚ he started to write symphonies. Mozart also played quite a few instruments. When he was three years old he was already playing the harpsichord. He also was very talented on the keyboard
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