The Prodigy

great change in her life but she was looking out for herself and so she came to the united states. Jing Mei was told by her mother she could be a prodigy, become the best at anything. of course jing Mei only being 9 years old she didn't know much being a chinese american child. her mom…

5The story “Two Kinds” is written by Amy Tan. The story is about June's mother starting test to see if her daughter is a prodigy. One day, the mom sees a young Chinese girl playing piano on the Ed Sullivan Show, and then uses that idea to have her daughter June starting playing the piano. June starts piano lessons with Chong, who her mother exchanges lessons for cleaning services. After a while, June prepares to play the piano at a recital, which her mom and her friends come to watch her.…

Picasso was traditionally trained by his father, José Ruiz y Blasco, a Spanish painter. A child prodigy that made a name for himself by departing from his traditional training and creating works of art that revolutionized the art world. Picasso’s most famous painting, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, broke from the traditional style of the time. The balance of classical paintings can be seen with balance with five figures represented—one in the center of the painting, flanked by two figures on each…

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…

the beginning of the novel, Colin longed to be unique, and also looked for significant events that he called “eureka moments”, where he would no longer be a prodigy, but a genius, someone who discovers something for themselves. He yearned for something new about himself to rise to the surface, other than the fact that he was a child prodigy. He realized that his intelligence was looked at as more of an annoyance than a feat. John Green writes, “The problem was that this most special,…

what was gathered in this chapter, Downs is not just stating the facts, but gives Beethoven a variety of personalities. In my sense of the composer from Downs’s text, Beethoven was an infant prodigy turned to a reclusive and arrogant know-it-all adult to depressed older man. First, Beethoven as an infant prodigy was something Downs is suspicious of. In the text, it is told that Beethoven was born December 17th 1770 and he was already starting to look music in 1772. This means that Beethoven…

today. In 1979, Peter Shaffer performed his play Amadeus that he fashioned after Alexander Pushkin short play called Mozart and Salieri. The film version came out in the 1980’s. The film is an adaptation of Mozart life and all his struggles as a prodigy, and the man who people admired, praised, and idolized. However, those who detested Mozart could not deny the significance of his work, his music, and his art form. In the beginning of the movie Amadeus Mozart is already a famous composer.…

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 the famous Chinese version of Shirley Temple, but because the barber mess up her hair, the mother tells her she looks like a negro Chinese person. Or, when she looks in the magazine her mother read that a little kid became a prodigy because he can name all the capitals of different countries around the world, the mother criticizes her…

“Everyday use” by Alice walker is a story of a family from the south the narrator is the mother who has two daughters who are opposing forces. In Amy Tan “Two kinds” is a tale of a girl named Jing mei who looks back in to personal memories of inner conflict that helped change into a more stronger character. The characters who draw the most sympathy is Maggie and the Jing-mei. Maggie has earned the sympathy of the audience through the use of diction. For instance, Walker characterizes Maggie…

Introduction Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment”. In the book Just Listen written by Sarah Dessen and “Two Kinds” written by Amy Tan, both main characters are in similar situations. In the first place, in Just Listen, Annabel is pretending to be the perfect girl who has everything when in reality her sister suffers from an eating disorder, her friends think she did something she didn’t do…