different short stories are discovering themselves as people. All of the characters make decisions that could decide who they are. All of their identities are revealed to them in very unexpected ways. In the short stories‚ “Fish Cheeks” by Amy Tan‚ “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan‚ and “The Bass‚ The River‚ and Sheila Mant” by W.D. Wetherell‚ the characters learn about their identities through significant moments. First‚ Amy Tan from the short story‚ “Fish Cheeks”‚ understands about her identity at her family’s
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In the story “Two Kinds”‚ Tan portrays how excessive parental control alienates a child and makes them insecure causing them to rebel against their parent’s beliefs and standards. The mother lives her dreams through her daughter. She moved to America from China because she believed that anything is possible there. She wanted to give her daughter everything she did not have as a child which is a chance to be successful and have a good life. The mother expected her daughter to be a prodigy. She would
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Reality of Dreams Chasing after your dreams always comes with consequences. Big or small‚ those dreams can positively and negatively affect your life. A dream is defined as a strongly desired goal to achieve something. Jing-Mei‚ from “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan‚ tried to pursue her and her mother’s dream of becoming a child prodigy in America. Jing-Mei’s mother‚ Suyuan‚ first moved to America after losing everything in China; this led to the creation of her and her daughter’s dream. The United
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It is hard to make a difference‚ but it always pays off in the end. In the novel Same Kind of Difference As Me‚ the authors Ron Hall and Denver Moore revealed that it only takes one person to make a big difference by using foreshadowing and allusions. By using foreshadowing‚ Hall and Moore tell how one person can make a difference. Denver Moore recalls‚ “But after a while‚ Miss Debbie got me to talkin ‘bout things I don’t like to talk about and tellin things I ain’t never told nobody…” (Moore 4)
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for those reasons and wonder why they are getting punished. Disciplining children can become addicting to the point where a parent believes it’s a reward to the child opposed to seeing it as a way that will benefit him or her. In a short story‚ Two Kinds by Amy Tan‚ a mother saw disciplining her child as a benefit. The mother believed her daughter would be successful if the daughter was obedient towards all her commands. The daughter grew to hate the way she was raised by her mother‚ but at the end
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Between the story “Two kinds” and “Everyday Use” I can feel the tension within the mother and daughter relationships. They both are unstable relationships but each for several reasons. In the story of “Two Kinds” the mother was very pushy with her daughter. The mother fully believes anything can happen in America. Therefore‚ sending her daughter through several tests and every time she sees a child succeeding in something she pushes her daughter do to that task. In the story Two Kinds she said “Every
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“Two Kinds” Reflection The story “Two Kinds” is written by a Chinese author named Amy Tan. I read the story in class with my table group. In my opinion‚ reading with my group improved my reading skills. I was able to discuss and analyze the story with my group. Compare to the mythologies that I read on my own and outside of class‚ some of them are very complexed in writing and I wasn’t able to discuss with anyone about it until class time. Another reason why I think reading with a group advanced
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Two kinds Two kinds is a fictional story written by the Chinese-American author Amy Tan. She was born in Oakland California. In this story‚ the writer explains the conflict and the problem of the mother-daughter relationships and also reveals about American life and the American dream. In this story‚ Nikon is shown as the main protagonist and the whole story is all about the writers feeling towards event during her childhood. The author also tries to explain the mother-daughter relationship and reveals
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Rebellion or Reason in Amy Tan’s: Two Kinds In the short story “Two Kinds”‚ written by Amy Tan‚ the character Jing-Mei appears to be rebelling. But‚ what is she rebelling against? I feel she is rebelling against her mother’s competitive relationship with her Auntie Lindo and her daughter‚ Waverly. She is struggling to establish her identity by purposely not measuring up to her mother’s standards. This in turn‚ allows her to enforce her boundaries. Jing-Mei’s mother wanted the best for her; she
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"Two Kinds" by Amy Tan The story "Two Kinds‚" by Amy Tan is just one of the stories about the relationship between mothers and daughters in the book‚ The Joy Luck Club. We start this story with a mother‚ a Chinese immigrant to the United States‚ telling her American born daughter‚ Jing-mei‚ at a very young age that she can become anything she wants to become in America; more specifically‚ a prodigy of some sort. We witness the mother’s search for what kind of prodigy she will turn her daughter
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