In Amy Tan’s, “Joy Luck Club” and Charlie Bissinger’s article, “ Dreaming of Heroes” from Friday Night Lights develop the central theme of Hope and Confidence between the relationships of the children and their parents.The central theme: hope develops because of the high expectations that the parents want from their children;, so, they can develop a better lives for themselves in the future. As the process of achieving the the high expectations from the parents goes on, the children seem to have quit, putcause anxiety on themselves, which causes them to fail, and they also have a fear for the future. TheseThe great expectations not only make the children have fear of the future when they fail, but it also motivates the child to continue
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In the chapter, “ Two Kinds,” Jing mother stated high expectations for Jing Mei states, “ Of Course you can be a prodigy, to, “ You can be at anything.”( Tan, pg. 132) . Suyuan Woo, Jing Mei’s mother, friends’ daughters all have developed some special talent and they have accomplished things from it to make their parents proud. Even though Jing Mei wanted to achieve the high expectations that her mother wanted, she began to give up and fail after all the pressure of her learning too much at the same time . In the chapter, Jing Mei states, “ The test got harder- multiplying numbers in my head… predicting daily temperatures in Los Angeles, NY, and London... , After seeing my mother’s face once again, something inside me began to die. I hated the tests, the raised hopes and failed expectations,” ( Tan, 134 ). Jing Mei’s many failed expectations caused her to lose her confidence in becoming a prodigy and she never once tried at it again. Jing Mei and her mother had different views on expecting the high expectations because her mother wanted her to try harder, but Jing Mei gave up. After Jing Mei’s argument with her mother a few years back, her mother buys her a piano for her thirteenth birthday. “ No,this is your piano,” “ Always your piano. You …show more content…
Billingsley, the father, has high expectations for him to go to college and live a better life than he did. In the article, BIlly states to Mike , “ He let him know it was okay to have a little beer every now and then.., but he admonished him to never, ever try drugs.” Billy Billingsley got very sick and before anything had happened to him, he wanted Mike to accomplish something to make him proud. Billy,Mike father, expectations were set because he did not want Mike to have the same habits he was influenced in. The high expectations affected pressure for Mike when his brother told him how special he is to their dad and how she should make him proud. Mike’s brother states in the article, “ You were the most special thing in his life,” his brother told him. “ It’s a hard pill to swallow, but you’re gonna have to make him proud of you.” ( Bissinger, 74). Mike though that he would have lost himself without his father, but the soft words motivated him to expect greater things. Charlie and Don Billingsley both have different views on what the expectations mean because Charlie “saw himself as a legend, not some two-bit supporter,” and he sees his very own son “as his own reflection on the field.” Don Billingsley views differently from his father, because on the
In the chapter, “ Two Kinds,” Jing mother stated high expectations for Jing Mei states, “ Of Course you can be a prodigy, to, “ You can be at anything.”( Tan, pg. 132) . Suyuan Woo, Jing Mei’s mother, friends’ daughters all have developed some special talent and they have accomplished things from it to make their parents proud. Even though Jing Mei wanted to achieve the high expectations that her mother wanted, she began to give up and fail after all the pressure of her learning too much at the same time . In the chapter, Jing Mei states, “ The test got harder- multiplying numbers in my head… predicting daily temperatures in Los Angeles, NY, and London... , After seeing my mother’s face once again, something inside me began to die. I hated the tests, the raised hopes and failed expectations,” ( Tan, 134 ). Jing Mei’s many failed expectations caused her to lose her confidence in becoming a prodigy and she never once tried at it again. Jing Mei and her mother had different views on expecting the high expectations because her mother wanted her to try harder, but Jing Mei gave up. After Jing Mei’s argument with her mother a few years back, her mother buys her a piano for her thirteenth birthday. “ No,this is your piano,” “ Always your piano. You …show more content…
Billingsley, the father, has high expectations for him to go to college and live a better life than he did. In the article, BIlly states to Mike , “ He let him know it was okay to have a little beer every now and then.., but he admonished him to never, ever try drugs.” Billy Billingsley got very sick and before anything had happened to him, he wanted Mike to accomplish something to make him proud. Billy,Mike father, expectations were set because he did not want Mike to have the same habits he was influenced in. The high expectations affected pressure for Mike when his brother told him how special he is to their dad and how she should make him proud. Mike’s brother states in the article, “ You were the most special thing in his life,” his brother told him. “ It’s a hard pill to swallow, but you’re gonna have to make him proud of you.” ( Bissinger, 74). Mike though that he would have lost himself without his father, but the soft words motivated him to expect greater things. Charlie and Don Billingsley both have different views on what the expectations mean because Charlie “saw himself as a legend, not some two-bit supporter,” and he sees his very own son “as his own reflection on the field.” Don Billingsley views differently from his father, because on the