Ni Kan's Ordinary Life

America was the place where it could all happen, where you could become who ever you wanted; a true hostess for a life of greatness. Ni Kan, daughter of the recently immigrated Mother from China, who after having lost everything back home, sets eyes on her daughter as the entertainer of America’s perceived promise of excellence. Ni Khan's mother, having a skewed idea of the journey to fame and riches enlisted the life of Ni Kan, of one in which she for ever performed incompetently in her mother’s eyes due to her misunderstanding of the idea of talent.
Ni Kan’s ordinary life at home was one where she was heavily influenced and tested by her Mother to observe other child prodigies, of great talent and intellect, with the goal of molding her …show more content…
Retrospectively speaking, Ni Kan admired the idea of being a child prodigy and its representation of being a form of perfection personified. Furthermore, a life where both of her parents loved her and was beyond reproach, beyond the nature of being faulty. Moreover, a life; “ like christ child lifted out the manger, crying with holy dignity” (1) . Yet when Ni Kan was beginning to undergo the regimes of becoming a prodigy, she soon realized the difference between expectations versus the reality of it all. The discomfort of being subjected throughout the torturous journey called her to rebel against her mother after becoming fed up failing her mothers expectations in success with acting, intellect, and finally music. Of cause of this path, Ni Kan began to become depersonalized, as it she was being structured in the image of another child. As of result, Ni Kan began the Journey in where she would become content just being herself, as her self, after having pleading to appeal to the wishes of her mother. After having come to a ruction with her mother over her disappointing piano performance at the church talent show, we both see and hear the tone of the journey begin to alter itself, as we have now