At first Jing-mei liked the idea, but after all of her attempts and fails she wanted to live a normal American life. (Tan, 125-126) Both stories have struggles, and events that occur to lead to have similar endings. In the movie Mulan after Mulan takes her father’s place in the army, she ends up going to battle and saving China from the dreaded Huns. She ends up coming home with the Huns leaders sword, the emperors crest, and honor to her family. (Mulan) In “Two Kinds” Jing-mei has many attempts to try to become a prodigy, the failure of her last attempt is what ended it all.
Q: Why does Waverly come to see her mother as her opponent? “Rules of the Game” Essay In Amy Tan’s short story, “Rules of the Game,” Waverly comes to see her mother as her opponent as she struggles to free herself from the power her mother has over her. Waverly has the ability to beat the best chess players, but once her mother gets inside her head, she begins to doubt herself. Waverly feels this way when her mother pressures her, and tells her that she needs to play chess better. Waverly cannot focus on her chess playing because her mother continues incessantly to push her to improve her game.
As time passed Jeing-Mei became rebellious over being pushed into a mold. Her mother was determined she was going to be a prodigy like Shirley Temple or other girls she saw on television. Finally, her mother decided she would become a pianist. Jeing-Mei started talking back to her mother and acting out disrespectfully, when her mother took her freedom and made her practice the piano every day. Jeing-Mei liked to practice best the fancier parts of songs that she could use her foot and leg to play.
Conflict in Amy Tan’s “Two Kinds” Amy Tan’s, “Two Kinds”, is a short story of a Chinese immigrant mother’s conflict with her daughter Jing-Mei. In this story, Jing-Mei tells of how she resisted her mother’s overbearing efforts to inspire her to reach her fullest potential twenty years ago. Jing Mei’s mother only wanted her daughter to be a prodigy in some way. So she dominated and controlled her daughter’s life. When these traits did not surface, Jing-Mei began to realize she did not have these traits and started to feel internally inferior.
To make her point clear she uses a lot of pathos and a lot of examples from experiences with herself and her two daughters, Louisa and Sofia. At the beginning when she tells the stories about her daughters trying to fight back you think ’what a terrible mother’, but she uses this feeling to support the view the readers have on the Chinese mothers as being mean to their kids so that afterwards she can tell how it turned out good and therefor the way she raises her kids is the best. Amy Chua has a high ethos because she is a professor at Yale which is a very respected job, and as a parent it makes her more reliable because she tells the reader that her parents treated her the same way that she treats her daughters, and as we can see she has been very successful. Also she uses loghos: ”In one study of 50 Western American mothers and 48 Chinese immigrant mothers, almost 70 % of the Western mothers said either that ”stressing academic success is not good for children” or that ”parents need to foster the idea that learning is fun”. By contrast,
Critical Analysis G.I. Jane In her article, “I Won. I’m Sorry,” Mariah Burton Nelson contends that it’s hard for a woman to walk the line of success in any sport or competition and not have to worry about looking and acting feminine. She states, “Most female winners play the femininity game to some extent, using femininity as a defense, a shield against accusations such as bitch, man-hater, and lesbian. Women who want to win without losing male approval temper their victories with beauty, with softness, with smallness, with smiles” (Signs of Life in the USA 540).
After her aunt kicks her out of her house, Hannah began to cry and says “Don’t make me go, Tante Rose” (Horton 39). This shows that Hannah still loved her aunt and loved to play the piano. Even though Hannah broke the rules, she still wanted to study and become a famous pianist. However Tante Rose was still furious. Hannah is an eager, kind, and devoted person, while Tante Rose is an arrogant, selfish person who wanted Hannah to become a pianist for her own needs.
Waverly’s strength in the game increases rapidly and by her ninth birthday she is already a national junior chess champion. Waverly’s mother is overjoyed with the results and that too is expanded further when Life magazine runs a story on Waverly. Sadly, as many overachieving children fall victim to, they feel that they are already sitting on top of the world and they stop doing what is necessary to remain there. They stop practicing their skill and eventually they lose it. This was the case with Waverly when she tried to reenter the chess tournament circuit.
“Two Kinds” by Amy Tan is a short story about a girl whose mother pushes her to become a genius, while the girl fights her wishes at every turn. The mother’s largest and final endeavor is for her daughter to learn how to play the piano and become a prodigy. From the subsequent events come heavy dispute between the two as we get a deeper look into the mother-daughter relationship they share. The author writes in such a way that leaves the interpretation and the judgment of the characters and the situation entirely up to the reader, not by leaving out detail, rather giving enough detail to show neither character as entirely in the wrong. Neither is shown to be without flaw, in a quite true-to-life scenario.
And the Chinese daughters that were born in America who have to juggle both struggles of their Chinese origin and the American prospects in order to succeed and meet their mothers expectations. The expectations of the narrator, Jing Mei’s, Chinese immigrant mother desires to make her into a musical sensation so that Jing Mei can compete with one of her mother’s friend, Lindo Jong’s, daughter is the major conflict in the story. The expectations that her mother is burdening her with are far too extraordinary for Jing Mei and isn’t what she wants to be or do with her future. It didn’t make it any better that her mother was a descendent from the Chinese culture, so her mother’s view and wishes all reflected from what was limited and banned within the Chinese heritage. Jing Mei, Being her mother’s only