This gives you a total different point of the story. Also Lindo Jong daughter was very good at chess. Jing-Mei mother experienced a difficult childhood full of problems and war. Something I liked of the story is the character motivation of Jing-Mei mother. I had heard of many real life cases similar to the story. The author clearly describes a relationship between a mother and daughter. I think that this story is a great short story. Jing-Mei strongly disagrees and see tries to tell her mother that she might be good at something else. She struggles to find her own path due that her mother wants her to be good at piano. The story Two Kinds is a story about a girl Jing-Mei that starts to have difficult times with her mother. An American writer that mainly writes about mother and daughter relationships. "Two Kinds" is a short story written by Amy Tan. I can use this to help students write about their own hard moments, or their own difficult relationships with people in their lives, to allow them time to self-reflect while they write. I could say that Jing-Mei's hard moment was losing her mother, and this short story is the result of her reflecting on her mother's life, and their relationship. A strategy that would go well with this story is "A Hard Moment" from Gallagher, Chapter 2. I think that this story does a good job of showing conflict, and gives a nice ending in terms of the conflicts that we see within the story. Society conflict a different spin than most other stories I have chosen for my final project. Society are all present within the story, though the perspective of an immigrant child gives the Man vs. I chose this story for my conflict/struggle unit because of the different types of struggle that students will be able to pick out. Eventually, they settle on piano playing, though it doesn't turn out the way that either Jing-Mei or her mother hope. On their journey, Jing-Mei's mother takes her through various tests to see what kind of a prodigy Jing-Mei will become, whether it be by becoming an actress like Shirley Temple or knowing all of the capitals of every country in the world. The story centers around her mother's quest to find what will make Jing-Mei a prodigy - for in America, you can be anything. Two Kinds by Amy Tan is about a young girl named Jing-Mei Woo, an American Chinese girl who grows up in California. I think it was a really sweet and bitter story between a daughter and her mother but it was resolved in the end. She became to play the piano again and she got better in the honor of her mom. Jing-Mei realized her mistakes after her mother passed away and gave her the piano as a memory. I think the theme of the story is to always be respectful to your parents and always treasure the people around you before they are gone. I think this was a really emotional story too because of the conflict between a mother and daughter relationship but soon the daughter realized that her mom only want her to be good. Jing-Mei did not want to be a piano prodigy so she had a problem with herself of coming to the solution that she cannot and will not be a piano prodigy because she doesn't have the talents to but her mom forced her otherwise. This story was both man vs man and man vs him/herself because this shows the conflict of both Jing-Mei and her mother on wanting Jing-Mei to be a piano prodigy. My opinion on this story by Amy Tan was wonderful because of how she wrote the connection of the two characters, Jing-Mei and her mother. She has also appeared on PBS in a short spot on encouraging children to write.Ĭurrently, she is the literary editor for West, Los Angeles Times' Sunday magazine. In addition, Tan has written two children's books: The Moon Lady (1992) and Sagwa, The Chinese Siamese Cat (1994), which was turned into an animated series airing on PBS. Her most recent book, Saving Fish From Drowning, explores the tribulations experienced by a group of people who disappear while on an art expedition into the jungles of Burma. She has written several other books, including The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses, and The Bonesetter's Daughter, and a collection of non-fiction essays entitled The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings. In 1993, Tan's adaptation of her most popular fiction work, The Joy Luck Club, became a commercially successful film. Amy Tan (Chinese: 譚恩美 pinyin: Tán Ēnměi born February 19, 1952) is an American writer whose works explore mother-daughter relationships and what it means to grow up as a first generation Asian American.
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