For someone raised under the western parenting style this is something completely absurd, since this is not letting the kid have a “normal childhood”. The kid does not have the opportunity to do what he finds interesting and he does not enjoy his childhood to the fullest. If we define a good mother as someone who wants their child to be happy, Amy would be considered a horrible mother. Ever since Amy and Sophia were young they were forced by their mother to play an instrument. Most kids, rather play a sport or go outside and hang out with their friends but in this case they were had to practice the piano/violin so they could become the best of the best.
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
Miss Schwartz only thinks about making other people happy, because she is afraid of them becoming angry, or leaving. The first line of the story says, “For fifteen years Miss Schwartz had waited for Sam Hilton to get a job so they could get married. “ Lena wanted to get married before, but she would not rush Sam into finding a job. She wasted away her youth waiting for her fiancé to stop being lazy , and now Miss Schwartz is viewed as an old maid at the age of thirty-two. Even with complete strangers Miss Schwartz is being taken advantage of.
Mrs. Hopewell think that Hulga/Joy has missed out on the best things in life and “who had never danced a step or had any normal good time” when she was younger (52). Mrs. Hopewell gave Joy her name because she was the joy of her life. To show retaliate and disconnect her own identity as Joy legally changed her name to Hulga. She choose that name because she did not see her mother giving her joy and needed to show herself that she was not in
They wake her up early and help her stretch her legs in hope that they will one day be straight/normal. They showed the compassion that her birth mother would never give to her child. Linda later recalls, “I must have been held so much that the sensation became a part of me”(65). Fifty years later when Linda and her mother Nancy finally meet for dinner, they don’t hug or even shake hands. The mother may be the birth mother and be related by blood but she sure doesn’t show any love toward her handicapped daughter that she abandoned.
Not only does the alternate ending fail to depict the message of liberal feminism that is shown through the original ending, the alternate ending is not consistent with the direction of the rest of the play. For example, Nora’s reason for staying in the alternate ending is her children. However, she shows little evidence of strong maternal instinct throughout the play. Indications of this can be seen much earlier in the action, when Nora is talking to her Nurse about her own childhood: “NURSE: Poor little Miss Nora, you never had any mother but me. NORA: And if my little ones had no one else, I know you would
Instead we are given a rare insight into Plath's mind of being a first time mother, something she never thought that she would be. If you take into account her past pieces of writing it is blatant to see that she never thought of herself as being a conventional woman, let alone one day being maternal. When you study Morning Song, you first see a woman who is unsure of how to react to her newborn child turn into a mother who is in awe of this life she brought into the world. Sylvia Plath takes us on a journey from the moment the baby first cries and feeling like an observer of a statue in a museum, to the moment when even the stars seem dull in comparison the beautiful sounds this child makes; 'The clear vowels rise like balloons.' (Plath, 1960) Understanding that Sylvia Plath suffered from severe depression and understanding that initially she was never interested in having children, brings a
The difference is a cultural divide between a mother born and raised in China and her American born daughter. Ni Kan’s mother wants her to be a prodigy in something, and she is not particular about what it is. She believes that you can control your destiny and become whatever you set your mind too. Believing this and wanting only the best for her daughter, Ni Kan’s mother pushes her to try everything from acting to playing the piano. She pressures her daughter to “try” it even though her daughter pushes away from it.
Her children were never allowed to go to sleepovers or have playdates. They were not even allowed to watch TV or play video games. They had to get an A in school and play an instrument which should either be the piano or violin. The reason why she is using this upbringing could be that she wants her children to be the best, that it is sort of a competition against other parents. A lot of parents are often raising their own children like they were raised, so Amy could, in this way, have had the same background
The mother is trying to get Pearl to get an education where she is sure of a stable income, this quote suggests that ‘’in private, though, I took Pearl aside and said, “Dancing is not something you can keep, like food, or a house, or a university diploma. A few minutes, an hour, and it is gone. If you had an education, you wouldn’t have to be dependent on your husband.” The story goes a little back and forth between memories of Pearl when she was younger and to the mother praying in the temple. It makes the reader understand the position the mother is in because we get to