... the dream that Jing-mei is going to be great at piano. Soon enough, her mother had scheduled her piano lessons with a man from the first floor who is nearly deaf. She hated playing the piano and soon figured out that she could be lazy and not play the right rhythms and notes because Mr. Chong couldn't tell the difference. Jing ... in-between the lines, I figure that the mother possibly pushed her child so hard because growing up in China, that's what it is like. The Chinese culture doesn't show as much love as the American culture does, so to a readers standpoint it may seem like the mo...

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• Grade Level: High School

... . At first refuses put forth a solid effort towards her mother's dreams. "I performed listlessly, my head propped on one arm. I pretended to be bored and I was" (717). Taking advantage of the deaf piano teacher was another act of defiance. Since he is unable to hear her mistakes, he is not able to track her progress. "If I hit the wrong notes because I hadn ... is struggling between the cultures of her environment and the values her mother is trying to instill in her. Although she respects her mother's heritage, Jing mei feels her own culture does not deem it necessary to trade your indi...

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• Grade Level: High School

... the whole of the story; the title itself, Two Kinds, shows the tension that Tan creates." (Shear). According to Amy Ling from the Pergamon Press, "It isn't uncommon in Chinese culture for immigrant parents of Americanized Chinese children to try to force certain aspects of the parents life and ambitions onto their children." (Tan). Tan is well known for portraying mother ... piano on the Ed Sullivan Show. Since Jing-Mei had no interest in playing the piano, she lazily went about her lessons, and got away with it, because she had a deaf teacher. Jing-Mei did this despite the fact that he...

• Word Count: 1030
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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School