The Prodigy

but she also wanted her daughter become something she wasn’t, a child prodigy. The daughter tried to please her mother but in the end she just wanted to be herself, to stick to her own mindset, not her mother's. She tried everything in beginning that her mother wanted her to do, but later grew out of trying to please her mom because she believed it to be unrealistic. She knew she just wasn’t the child that could become a prodigy, at least she didn’t believe that she could be. She wasn’t a…

Amy Tan shows how the character June advances the plot by having June change her views on how her mother treated her, and how the relationship between them fell apart. In the story, June’s feelings are ignored by her mother’s drive on making her a prodigy, which leads June having to blindly follow her mother's orders. A moment in the story when June’s mother is blind to her feelings is when June is forced to learn the piano by her mother. “When my mother told me this, I felt as though I had…

“Your generosity is greatly appreciated!” I was staring straight at the bright glare of the GoFundMe webpage for my Meadowmount attendance tuition. I started the cello at the age of 8, and I have been passionate about music ever since. The instrument has gotten me to go to different places around America and I had the privilege of experiencing them. I look towards being a music major in the future. However, a financial issue is preventing me from enjoying an entirely new experience. Our family…

they can live their extravagant lives, Collins portrays the dehumanization of society present in The Hunger Games. By addition to The Hunger Games Marie Lu’s Prodigy also presents a corrupt dystopian society with a lack of morals. The authoritarian government forces individuals to make immoral decisions, Death is a recurring idea in Prodigy the government kills even its own employees without giving it a second…

themselves, have wanted to aspire to be their own person. Parents, however, don’t always agree with the direction their child has chosen to follow in life. In Amy Tan’s Two Kinds, Jing-Mei is a Chinese-American girl. Her Chinese mother wants her to be a prodigy, which Jing-mei finds herself not wanting to be. Despite her mother’s efforts, Jing-mei doesn't seem to be good at anything except piano, but she refuses to excel at it. As her mother slowly takes away her freedom to be her own person,…

The comparison of “The Grail” and The Road by Cormac McCarthy contains similarities and differences. Even though the manuscripts of The Road that were distributed are brief, there is a sense in the readings of McCarthy’s intentions. Starting with “The Grail” version being substantially different from the published novel in the beginning, then going into the dream the father had in The Road; its correspondence with the version of “The Grail”, and lastly the similarities that are placed at the end…

trunks with shitty prose coming to grips with what I am today Gripping my life like an unskilled fencer holds his foil Each day foiled by the traps and turmoil of my mind Told daily to toughen up and not mind the howling winds of my past. A veritable prodigy passed by those taught the virtue of work Ashamed that the virtue of my youth was wasted on skills untranslatable to today I only hope my youth isn’t burdened and bridled by my shame I hope she never hears "it’s a shame she turned out like…

Identity is how a person defines themselves. It could be things like race, morals, sexuality, gender, height, weight, etc. Nearly anything that could be used to describe a person could be part of their identity, but only if that person is willing to adapt that aspect of their life into their identity. These things that people define themselves have the ability to change, but in order for that to occur there either needs to be a slow, gradual change caused by a long-term event or a strong event…

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on January 27, 1756. When he was younger, Mozart watched his father, Leopold, teach his sister, Maria Anna, how to play piano. At the age of three, he became a child prodigy. During his childhood, his family traveled around Europe. While on those trips, Maria Anna and Wolfgang performed as prodigies. Mozart became employed as a court musician by Prince-Archbishop Hieronymus Colloredo in 1773. He had the chance to work in many genres: symphonies, sonatas, string quartets,…

career as one of the most celebrated child prodigies in eighteen-century Europe. With his father Leopold being a highly respected composer and violinist Mozart discovered his interest in music. At the age of 4, his father, Leopold taught him minuets which Mozart played effortlessly. By the time he was 5, Mozart was able to compose small pieces. In his very early career, Mozart and his sister made many trips to Europe where they performed as child prodigies. In 1773, Mozart was selected to the…