The Prodigy

An Abundance of Average John Green’s common coming of age story An Abundance of Katherines tells the tale of a high school child prodigy who has only ever dated girls named Katherine. Being the prodigy that he is, Colin seems to be your average misunderstood teenager who doesn’t get along with most, except his best friend. After Colin is dumped by his nineteenth Katherine, he seems to be stuck in an eternal rut. Feeling like a failure, his best friend Hassan kicks him out the door for a road…

monasticism as well as Christianity. These benefits are exemplified by the call for aid from the woman. Due to her piousness and duty to the church she was duly responded to with great haste. - In comparison to the other sources, William of Newburgh: On Prodigies is similar to A Tale of Doomsday Colum Cille Should Have Left Untold in that both deal with issues of the afterlife on earth. Both sources have their resolutions resolved through faith and each sought salvation through different means.…

something that she feels she is not: a prodigy. However, in the end, Jing-mei’s conflict with her mother ends with an age-old adage: mother is correct. After a careful analysis of the story, the reader understands how Jing-mei’s feelings toward her mother changed, why her feelings changed, and how those changed feelings affected the entire story.…

Jing-mei. In the story, we quickly learn that Mrs. Woo believes that America is the “land of opportunity” and feels that her daughter, Jing-mei, can be whatever she wants to be. At first, Jing-mei is excited about the prospect of becoming a child prodigy. She believes that this will make her “perfect” and give her the adoration of her parents. After several attempts…

Amy at such a young age that their relationship falters forever. Parents have set expectations for their children , and or Amy, her mother expects her to become a prodigy. Amy mentions in her excerpt, “’Of course you can be prodigy, too,’ my mother told me when I was nine” (Two Kinds). Being told at the age of nine to be a prodigy is hard for a child who mostly wants to have their parent’s approval, for their parents to be proud of them. That must cause so much stress and sadness to Amy…

mother and daughter that exemplifies the complexities and intricacies between the two. Throughout the story, the mother chooses to showcase different musical talents towards her daughter, in hope that her daughter masters one and becomes a “child prodigy.” Meanwhile, the daughter chooses to find herself through her own means rather than through the dreams of her mother, which sets the theme of how the expectations of a parent can lead to resentment from the child, especially when the child fails…

find opportunity, and she believes in the “American Dream” – that “you could be anything you wanted to be in America” (132). Jing-mei and her mother are close in the beginning of the chapter. They are also excited for Jing-mei’s journey to become a prodigy 2. After she loses her mother, father, home, children, and husband in China, she feels lost and has no hope there. To find a light in the darkness, she immigrates to the US to find opportunity. Since she believes in the American dream, she…

snaps under her expectations in “Two Kinds”. Jing is expected to become a prodigy during her childhood; however, she is never able to quite master the art she is educated on. For example, Jing is required to perform at a piano concert. During this concert Jing commits several critical errors and is ridiculed by the observer. Ultimately, this results in Jing rebelling and barrating her mother for forcing her to be a prodigy and practice immediately after the horrendous performance which…

greatness that took the person years of practice to do. Someone who is born with a talent is capable of being the greatest. Talented people are known as true born winners. Being a natural is likely, but to be so amazing at something and be called a prodigy is very unlikely. For instance, Aleita Andre, the worlds youngest professional artist, has sold millions of paintings at the age of five. Many artists require practice in order to become as great as Andre. It takes time and dedication to reach…

daughters to be successful in order to show them off to their friends, but also to give them to have a better future. If Waverly Jong and June Woo become prodigies as an ABC, they will be proudly viewed by others to other Asians in America as to show that not only Americans can be the prodigy, and stop how the world was being racist. Being a prodigy in the book means happiness to their mothers. In the mother's’ mind, happiness not only means to have a higher Cheng 9 income and…