“Two Kinds” Character Analysis Paragraph

The story is “Two Kinds” one of the characters is Jing-mei, a character trait for Jing-mei is that she is defiant. Her mother wants her to become a prodigy and feels that she is a prodigy at the piano. Some of Jing-mei’s actions are that she argues a lot with her mother, and she cheats at playing the piano. Jing-mei is a little Chinese girl with a Peter Pan hair cut. Jing-mei thinks that her prodigy is being rebellious and that she is best at not listening to her mother, she feels like her mother wants her to be someone she is not. Some things that she tells her mother is really mean and hurtful, at one point she says “I wish I were dead! Like them!” Jing-mei is like any other little girl who has a parent that wants them to be great at what they want. She fights against it because that how she thinks she is gonna get what she wants.

"Two Kinds" Mother-Daughter Conflict

In the conflict between Jing-mei and her mother, Jing-mei says thing to her mother that her breaks her mother’s heart. For example, she tells her mother that she hates her. This shows that her feeling got to the point where she just broke. This also shows that she really didn’t want to play the piano or become a prodigy. In addition, she also told her mother that she wishes she was dead like the other babies in China that the mother had lost. This shows that Jing-mei felt her life was unfair and not hers, but she wanted her life to be her owns. This also shows that the daughter has not learned to think before she speaks and she also doesn’t know the strength of her words yet. Jing-mei’s actions were unfair and completely mean, she shouldn’t have said the things she did. The words truly hurt the mother deeply, so the mother just gave up on and was heartbroken.

"Two Kinds" Plot Diagram with Griselda S

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"Two Kinds" Jing-Mei's Shoes Paragraph

If any of my parents tried to make me become a prodigy, I would be mad. I would not try to be a prodigy in anything. I would hide from them, I would act like I’m really bad it, and do a bunch of stuff to not do it. I would sit and not move, I would not say a word, and I would make sure to be dirty whenever I was needed to be clean. I would make sure that my parents knew that I wouldn’t do anything so that they would just give up. If the pressure got to much to become a prodigy I think it would ruin my life, because I would get into the habit of not doing anything. I wouldn’t be able to get a job, or do anything that would require me to work because of that habit.