21 November 2011 How Not to Raise Your Child The short stories Bobbys Room and Two Kinds by Douglas Dunn and Amy Tan both include bad relationships between parent and child Some of these reasons include lack of balance in parenting dislike of parents due to bad parenting and the childs independence at the end of the story In these stories there was a definite lack of balance in parenting whether it be too much or too little The two mothers in the stories go to one extreme or the other I dont se
Demanding More Two Kinds a story written by Amy Tan is about a troublesome relationship between a mother and her daughter Jing Mei This Chinese mother felt as though her daughter could do anything that she set her mind to Because she had moved from China and felt as though America was the open door to opportunities to become anything you wanted to be Like a typical parent Jing Meis mother wanted more for her daughter than Jing Mei wanted for herself She had so many ideas in mind that could help
In Amy Tans story Two Kinds is a battle between two generations one being a Chinese American girl named Jing Mei and her mother a Chinese immigrant pursuing the American dream for her daughter Jing Mei is very much an American conditioned teenager and her mother is very much a Chinese born mother with her beliefs in child rearing extreme and absolute One key thing to remember in the story is Jing Mei is the child in the story while she can rebel she is dependent on her mother She is a restless
Two Kinds Every day somewhere in the world a mothers expectations for their daughter to succeed in life may come from what she has lost prior to her daughter being born Amy Tan the author of the short story Two Kinds teaches a valuable lesson in a mother daughter relationship The mother a Chinese immigrant was determined her daughter Jeing Mei a first generation Chinese American was to become a prodigy The theme of Two Kinds expresses how a mothers dream for her daughter to be successful in Ame
Two Kinds compare contrast Most children rebel against their mother or grandmother at some point in time The characters in Amy Tans Two kinds and my story were similar in this aspect Although the way felt about our mother grandmother the reasons we rebelled and the way we went about it are very different On the other hand in the end of the stories both I and Ni Kan had similar feeling towards our mother grandmother How Ni Kan in Two kinds and my story felt about our mother grandmother was compl