Young teenage girls aren’t used to always following orders especially when they are force to do something that they don’t like. Sometimes people like to appear something they’re not which make things a bit harder than it really is. Even though Jing-Mei from Two Kinds, Amy Tan, was happy about pleasing her mom, she wanted to be unique and herself like any other teenage girl. At the begging of her journey Jing-Mei kind of like the idea about being a prodigy, she agreed in the piano lessons and was happy to take them, but she started to see that it was more of her mom’s dream than it was of hers. She started to notice that her mom was pushing her and rushing her rather than just being there as a support for her daughter. According to her mom she could only be a “prodigy or a failure”.
Jing-Mei hit a few bombs in the road even before she started her life; disappointment, sadness, angry and more. The most difficult challenge for her is seeing her mother being disappointed, “And after seeing once again, my mother’s disappointment face, something inside me began to die”. She was only getting a glimpse of the real world. …show more content…
Jing-Mei was tired of always trying to be perfect for the wrong person, “I would have pulled her braids and punched her stomach” (Tan 225). Even though Jing-Mei tells her mother she doesn’t want to be a prodigy her mother still pushes her to the limit, Jing-Mei has to be a two face in order to keep doing what her mother wishes. Jing-Mei mother’s rules are nearly impossible to follow for her because that isn’t what her heart wants. Basically all Jing-Mei wants to do is be herself but with her mother only thinking about herself she can’t do what her heart truly
Jing-Mei hit a few bombs in the road even before she started her life; disappointment, sadness, angry and more. The most difficult challenge for her is seeing her mother being disappointed, “And after seeing once again, my mother’s disappointment face, something inside me began to die”. She was only getting a glimpse of the real world. …show more content…
Jing-Mei was tired of always trying to be perfect for the wrong person, “I would have pulled her braids and punched her stomach” (Tan 225). Even though Jing-Mei tells her mother she doesn’t want to be a prodigy her mother still pushes her to the limit, Jing-Mei has to be a two face in order to keep doing what her mother wishes. Jing-Mei mother’s rules are nearly impossible to follow for her because that isn’t what her heart wants. Basically all Jing-Mei wants to do is be herself but with her mother only thinking about herself she can’t do what her heart truly