Child prodigy

“The morning after noted child prodigy Colin Singleton graduated from high school and got dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, he took a bath,” (3). In the book An Abundance of Katherines by John Green. Colin Singleton is a prodigy, not a genius. When he gets dumped by Katherine the XIX, the nineteenth Katherine that Colin has had a relationship with, he finds himself thinking about having a Eureka moment. A Eureka moment that will lead Colin from a child prodigy to genius like most of his role models will make him find his real meaning in life. He drops out of his summer classes at Northwestern to go on a road trip with his best friend Hassan to try to persuade a Eureka moment out of himself. He decides that his “moment” should come out of the loss of the woman he loved, so, he mathematically calculates how his relationships with all nineteen Katherines ended, began, and everything in…

Jing-mei who experiences their ramifications firsthand. After her mother, Suyuan, absorbs the images of child actresses, geniuses, and virtuosos, she zealously attempts to mold her daughter in their likeness. As the narrative progresses, the influence of the media surrounding Jing-mei incites her to evolve her perception of what she is capable of achieving and who she is as an individual while simultaneously fueling her mother’s disparate dreams for her future and preoccupation with the American…

In the story “Two Kinds”, by Amy Tan, an Asian-American daughter is faced with the pressures her mother puts upon her of expectations of success; in particular, the expectation is to become a young prodigy. Throughout the story, Jing- mei faces external and internal conflicts while struggling to find her own identity. While facing the struggles brought in her life, Jing- mei comes upon the realization that her mother believed in her and only wanted her to be the best that she can be. The theme…

In the same first experience, she would see this as one of the greatest opportunities to have. She believed that you could be anything you wanted to be in America. Unlike Jing-Mei, her mother felt like this was the prodigy that Jing-Mei should live up to. She would have done anything to make sure Jing-Mei would become a piano genius. In the second experience, she expected her daughter to play astonishing, which was quite the opposite of what it really was. It was obvious that Jing-Mei’s mother…

discusses the “culture of honor” in Appalachia and the rice paddy development in China that fosters useful problem solving skills. Through this series of case studies, Gladwell inserts background information that further supports his claim and helps the reader understand his theory.  In Outliers, Gladwell’s diction plays a vital role in the development of his thesis and gives the reader this element to help his points resonate. When discussing geniuses, Gladwell refers to Chris Langan and his…

Instead of the mother trying to let the daughter find her future, she forces her to do things that she does not want to do because the mother believes that anything can happen in America. In the beginning, the daughter does these crazy things because she really wanted to please her mother. She thinks that if she does this it will make her mother proud of her. Yet as time goes on, all her mother does is criticize her and would compares her to famous child prodigy. For example, she tries to become…

Helicopter parents make sure their child can get to dance class, violin lessons, the art show, and make it home in time to study for the math exam, which they will get a perfect score on, in one night. These parents strive to create the child who has it all, the prodigy. But when is enough enough? The boy on the jungle gym with the helmet and kneepads, usually a product of overparenting. The straight A student who grounds herself for achieving a score less than one hundred percent, usually a…

I believe I’ve come to the conclusion that her parenting methods are morally unjust and insensitive In the excerpt adapted from “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother” Amy Chua argues the differences between Chinese and Western mothers parenting styles, and how the outcomes are on two opposite ends of the spectrum. Focusing on the stereotype that children of Chinese mothers are more successful I will not argue that point; although, I will disagree with it 's formality. Chua states “they wonder what…

A common question among parents is “Are we raising our children right?” This question is addressed in Amy Chua’s book “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”. Amy Chua, a professor at Yale Law School, asserts that the best parenting technique is that which the Chinese use, and that the parenting in the United States, the “Western” parenting technique, is horribly ineffectual. For children to shine they must succeed and for them to succeed they must submit to their parents who know best. This is…

In “The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me,” he had taught himself how to read at the age of 3. As a child, he loved reading like his father and read whenever he could. With his analytical mind he started to see the world in paragraphs. “I didn’t have the vocabulary to say “paragraph,” but I realized that a paragraph was a fence that held words. The words inside a paragraph worked together for a common purpose. They had some specific reason for being inside the same fence” (Alexie 12).…