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    What does a mother should teach to her daughter? Obviously, she has a lot of stuff need to teach. In the both texts, “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan and “Girl” by Jamaica, the mothers are expecting their daughters to have better life and better future. They both worry about their daughters’ future and wonder how they would get ready for the adulthood. On the other hands, daughters are required to follow those guide from their mothers to achieve the aim that their mothers always want. Mother is an especially

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    "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan

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    "Two Kinds" The story "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan represents the theme that parents cannot control their children, but can only guide them. A Chinese mother and daughter Ni Kan are at odds with each other in story. The mother pushes her daughter to become a prodigy of some sort, her daughter does try to follow her mother 's orders but has she gets older she realizes she wants to find her own self and not to be what her mother wants her to be. They both have conflicting values, which is the theme of the

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    In the story Two Kinds by Amy Tan it tells the tale of conflict between a mother Suyuan and her daughter Jing-mei over piano lessons. Two Kinds deals with a clash between a mother’s belief of hard work and persistance and a daughter's belief that being a prodigy is unachievable. Amy Tan shows generational differences among immigrant families negotiating the mythology of the American Dream. Amy Tan portrays Suyuan as having a strong belief in the American Dream. Two Kinds starts out with “My mother

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    relationship on the planet is the relationship between the mother and the daughter. There are such a variety of elements required in this relationship. There is a unique and unmistakable connection amongst mothers and daughters. The short story "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan outlines the principle character Jing-mei's childhood and the impacts of her mother’s high expectation for her life. The mother pressures Jing-mei to exceed in America where everything is possible. However, they come into a conflict when her

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    and Daughters Our native instinct as children is that we want to be our own unique independent person, no matter who gets in our way, not even our parents. Parents and children fight over what the children want to do in life all the time. “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan is a short story where a young girl’s feelings change over time with her mother. The daughter, Jing-mei, is being forced by her mother to become a prodigy. Jing-mei does not think she can become a prodigy, creating a conflict in the relationship

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    A Look At Two Kinds Nobody knows the secret ingredient which causes a prodigy’s accelerated prowess. However, Jing-Mei’s mother would give anything for her daughter in exchange for her daughter to possess this trait, so she devises a series a schemes to train Jing-Mei as a prodigy. “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan reveals Jing-Mei’s struggle to accept or deny her mother’s wishes. Moreover, this story investigates the strained relationship between a mother with unrealistic expectations and her daughter by using

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    However, many Chinese immigrants see this opportunity to do unimaginable and wrathful things, for example, they combine the American dream with their old tradition of being the best in everything. Amy Tan, a writer of Asian origin described in her story "Two Kinds" as an Asian mother and daughter have many differences due to the place where they were born and because the mother tries to force her to be a child prodigy while the daughter decides to be Away from her mother. The story

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    “Two Kinds” is about a girl named Jing-mei and her family had moved from China to San Francisco in hopes of fame for Jing-mei; her mother wanted her to become a prodigy. With her mother hoping for her to become a prodigy, she is forced to do things that she doesn’t want to do and so she rebells back because she felt as though her mother wasn’t happy that she wasn’t perfect and so she was changing her. At the end of this story, Jing-mei finally learned that if she were to have tried at something she

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    According to the short story “Two Kinds,” by Amy Tan, Mrs. Woo (Jing Mei’s mother) said that “you can be anything you wanted to be in America.” Mrs. Woo believes that her daughter Jing Mei can be anything in the United States as long as she puts her mind to do it, so she tries to help her daughter to discover her talent. The ideas of Mrs. Woo are to rule and control her little girl's life, and her Chinese culture view tends to make her children become obedient children rather than to let her children

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    A Mother and Her Daughter In Amy Tan’s “Two Kinds” (1989), a section of her novel “The Joy Luck Club”, Tan depicts the mother-daughter relationship between June and her mother, Ms. Woo. Ms. Woo is determined to turn June into a child prodigy, forcing her to try different activities to see if she would be a prodigy in that field. Ms. Woo then forces June to take piano lessons, and to her content June continues to play the piano with lessons from Mr. Chong. When it comes time for June to perform in

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