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This 3 page paper provides an overview of the major theme of Amy Tan's Two Kinds, and relates the relationship between Jing-mei and her mother as it represents this theme. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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values. While Jing-meis mother believes that her daughters life should be defined by obedience and success, Jing-mei only wants to be herself and be loved for the person she
is. One of the most important lines in the story demonstrates this division expressed by Jing-meis mother: "Only two kinds of daughters...Those who are obedient and those who
follow their own mind!"(Tan, 1989). The narrator of the story relates her life in terms of her mothers expectations and her failure to meet them. She tells of her
mothers hope that she will become a prodigy and all the efforts that her mother goes through toward this end. As an obedient daughter, Jing-mei should be able to
take her mothers direction, find a talent, and become a prodigy. It is her mothers assertion, then, that her willfulness is what prevents her from becoming a prodigy, not
her lack of talent. Jing-meis mothers directive, for her daughter to become a prodigy, becomes the thing that Jing-mei rebels against. Surprisingly, though, Jing-mei does not
see herself as solely a rebel, but instead as a person seeking self-identity, rather than an imposed cultural identity (Adams, 2006). When she disappoints her mother by failing one
of her tests, she acknowledges her mothers failed hopes, but she also sees her "prodigy side...The girl staring back at me was angry, powerful" (Tan, 1989). This girl staring
back at her in the mirror is not self-condemning because she does not meet her mothers expectations, but strong in the face of her mothers attempts to define her.
"I wont let her change me...I wont be what Im not" (Tan, 1989). Jing-meis opposition to her mothers desire for her to become a prodigy is based on her
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