Critical Reading Essay Recently, I read a novel from the textbook is called Two Kinds. This novel by Amy Tan is the story of Jing-Mei. A Chinese –American girl whose mother believed they can do anything successful if they live in America. The Chinese-American Girl’s mother think anyone live in America can be anything they want and so is determined to find hidden talent in this Chinese- American girl. Jing-Mei is repeatedly tested to reveal any kind of talent but continually disappoints not only her mother, but herself as well and become s determined not to try to have any talented at all. This is novel make us think about how to make balance between parents’ expectation on their children and the children’ own mind. “My mother believed you could do anything you wanted to be in America.” (Two kind p43). Jing-Mei’ mother think she can be a prodigy. That is a reflection of American dream. That make child feel really stressful if parents do not deal with the expectation properly.
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Amy Tan illustrates this very well. She gives us small affairs between Jing-Mei and her mother to make us understand the theme. She also uses many dialogues to give a vivid expression on readers of the characterizations of Jing-Mei and her mother. Any reader would be should shocked by the conflict between them, especially, when Jing-Mei talks the daughters in China, her mother feels so astonished and hurt. We are driven to think the reason why them begin to hurt each other. They need not to do that as they loved each other. The mother can tell her Jing-Mei that she just wants to her to try her best rather than a genius, while Jing-Mei can tell her mother her own idea. There is a balance between parents’ conflict and children’ own idea. However, many parents and children still have conflict s about this, they do not express themselves clearly and misunderstand each
Amy Tan illustrates this very well. She gives us small affairs between Jing-Mei and her mother to make us understand the theme. She also uses many dialogues to give a vivid expression on readers of the characterizations of Jing-Mei and her mother. Any reader would be should shocked by the conflict between them, especially, when Jing-Mei talks the daughters in China, her mother feels so astonished and hurt. We are driven to think the reason why them begin to hurt each other. They need not to do that as they loved each other. The mother can tell her Jing-Mei that she just wants to her to try her best rather than a genius, while Jing-Mei can tell her mother her own idea. There is a balance between parents’ conflict and children’ own idea. However, many parents and children still have conflict s about this, they do not express themselves clearly and misunderstand each