Growing up is hard. In my life, people have told me to take advantage of being young because it is the only time we have to make mistakes and have little repercussions for it before we have to grow up and be responsible for our choices for the rest of our lives. So one can only imagine the level of difficulty it would be to be forced to become mature and grow up at a young age and in a certain way without any real input. In Amy Tan’s “Two Kinds” the main character Jing-mei is confronted with this idea of being forced to grow up the way her mother wants. “Two Kinds” is a coming-of-age story in which Jing-Mei is conflicted by the presence of an authoritarian mother who is forcing her to grow up her way. The story teaches us that, in the process
