“I don’t see any cars,’ Henry said, ‘so they must have rooms.’/ ‘When I want your opinion, I’ll ask for it.”(Dunn 70) In this quote, The Pollocks have just arrived at Netherbank. Henry merely makes a helpful comment and his mother immediately yells at him for speaking out of turn. This is important to the plot because it shows how much Henry’s parents overreact to his very normal-child-like behavior. This severe parenting problem also applies to Jing-mei Woo. “Of course, you can be a prodigy, too,’ my mother told me when I was nine.
Her mother decides that Jing-mei should be like Shirley Temple and takes her to have her haircut and curled. This does not turn out so her mother tries to blame Jing-mei. Next Jing-mei’s mother decides that Jing-mei should be a pianist after watching Ed Sullivan. Jing-mei hates piano lessons and asks her mother “Why don’t you like me the way I am?” After this event Jing-mei decides that she will never live up to her mother’s expectations, she then decides to quit trying. Similarities In “Two Kinds” the girl Jing-mei has to try to live up
When the author was young she used to have to call people on the phone and act as if she was her mother in order to get people to pay attention to her like when she had to yell at her mother’s stockbroker for not sending a check. In a different occasion when her mother went to the doctor to get the results of a CAT scan, the doctors ignored her when she complained about them losing her results. It wasn’t until Tan talked to the doctor that they apologized and cared to solve the problem. She insists that people not taking a person
She went to the department store she found a pair of silk stockings that suited her. She bought it and as she tried it on she felt the freedom of not having any responsibilities. As she went on shopping she bought stuff for her own and felt nostalgic for her old life and how she had been longing for it. Once all her shopping was done she went into a restaurant and the theater. After all of the spending for her desires, she rode on a cable car and remembered about the family that she totally forgot.
Instead, she communicated by humming or screaming. She was eventually labeled autistic, and her parents were urged to institutionalize her. Instead, her mother pushed for her inclusion in the activities of “normal” children, and did not isolate her. Grandin struggled in school. She says her schoolmates thought she was “weird”, and admits that she was “totally useless” at algebra and languages in high school, (Gerson Saines & Jackson, 2010).
A girl could like boy toys more, where a boy could like girl toys. This is a never ending cycle but it does raise worry on parents when they see that their child wants to play with something like a toy gun that pops smoke or a tow sword which promotes only aggression and violence. Whereas girl toys in commercials show Ponies, barbies or jewelry making. These show skills on how to share and gain a social behavior skills. But for boys they have commercials of hot rods on a track which crash, or bad guys being tossed into a Lego prison.
But then in the end she comes to good terms with her mother, when she offers her the piano she used to play on. This was on her 13th birthday. Essay: The name of the story is “Two Kinds” and it was written in 1989 by Amy Tan. It’s about a girl who in the beginning of the story is 9 years old (page 1, line 6) and in the end is 13 years old (page 5, line 160). She in this time has a identity struggle with her mother, because she is obsessed with the American idea of being anyone you want.
In Mother Tongue Amy made a great point when she spoke about how when she was fifteen years old her mother would have her call people on the phone and pretend it was her in order to ask and receive the correct information she needed. “I think my mother’s English almost had an effect on limiting my possibilities in life as well.” In this quote Amy is discussing that because English is not her first language it could have jeopardizes her future in school and how she would educate herself all throughout college. Most people can relate to this because she already has disadvantage growing up and attending school as a young
There was a survey taken in a school, of 5-12th grade girls, and the results were 59% were unsatisfied with their bodies, 47% wanted to lose weight because of magazines. It is also known that 73% of 8-12-year olds dress and talk like teens. These examples show that some try to do so much just to fit in and belong, even when it’s not their real identity. In the novella, Frankie changes, as she bought a new dress that was for older women; Berenice said that it didn’t suit her, but she didn’t care.
As kids approach their teen stages they get very tempted to date. Some kids may not be loved by their parents so they do it to show they can feel love. On the other hand some children never go through this stage because their parents are very over protective. I don’t see this as a bad thing, but you need to see dating as a pros and cons situation. I surveyed 500 people and based on my results most kids see this as a good thing.