Jing-Mei is forced to take piano lessons after her mother saw a Chinese girl, who resembled Jing-Mei, playing the 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 her mother had traded housecleaning services for her lessons. ... By not practicing and being determined to disappoint her mother, Jing-Mei is humiliated one evening after she tried to play the piano at a talent show. ... Determined not to give up on her, Jing-Mei's m...

• Word Count: 1030
• Approx Pages: 4
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• Grade Level: High School

Amy Tan's Two Kinds essay is about a Chinese mother who immigrated to America after losing everyone, and everything that she had knew back in China, to start a new life. The entire essay focuses on the mother and daughters" relationship with each other. Throughout the essay the mother tries to ma...

• Word Count: 579
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• Grade Level: High School

After her failure at this, Jing-mei and her mother spend numerous nights after dinner researching children and their amazing abilities, ranging from a three-year-old boy who can recite the capitals of every state to the nine-year-old Chinese girl who can pound out music on the piano like no other. After an extremely exhausting search for Jing-mei's "hidden" talent, Suyuan finally decides that Jing-mei herself will excel on the piano, releasing the prodigy within her. ... Jing-mei finds no interest in following her mother's wishes and expectations of becoming the next magnificent...

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From then on in the story every time Jing-Mei's mother would impose a certain test on her she would try to fail it as miserably as possible, this was also true for the piano lessons that her mother made her take. The lessons were something that Jing-Mei really didn't want to do, she confessed to having regretted that because she ended up embarrassing herself and her family at the talent show that her mother signed her up for where she proved that she didn't know how to play piano. ... The daughter also didn't want to "suck" at playing the piano and the proof of that is that...

• Word Count: 845
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School