Her mother made June do task in hopes of she be good at it. The task range from acting to testing her on popular magazine clipping. None of which she was at good cause she her mother want to much out of her and June would go against her mother wish for her to be something better. Eventually she learn to play the piano. Her mother didn’t understand was June wasn’t good with the piano at first cause she got caught with pride for her daughter.
Thesis Statement about theme of literary work- In Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club, expressions of love and hatred are shown in multiple mother-daughter relationships resulting in negative impacts such as pain, bitterness, and regret because of their differing opinions. Support Point #1- Suyuan Woo guiltily leaves her twin daughters on the ground in China as she walks away in tears.
She later realizes that all her mother wanted was for her to try and do her best. Her mother gives the piano to her for her thirtieth birthday, and she tries to play again. As shown above, Jing-mei realizes that she has the potential to be a genius, but she did not try when she was younger.
Melody’s strongest quality is her intelligence despite her condition. Since she can't talk in class she might as well listen. Melody has photographic memory, so she has all of these thoughts and facts inside her head that she can’t get rid of. If I was melody I would feel deprived that I can't communicate with others about how I feel and tell them anything I want whenever. An example would be if we were asked a question we would answer it then it would float away from our heads afterwards, but for melody she still has it trapped in her head.
As Suyuan kept presenting more tests, June purposely “performed lifelessly and pretended to be bored” (135) to make her mother believe that she would never become somebody ; however her mother hadn’t given up hope yet. Suyuan enrolls June in piano classes with Old Chong.
She gets put up to tests and she can't complete them because of her physical disabilities,but she always knew them. “ I know all the colors and shapes and animals that children my age were supposed to know,plus lots more. In my head I can count to one thousand forward
This is ironic because she thought she would play amazing but they absolutely bombed her performance in front of everyone. Her father then gives us the hilarious line, “That was something' else”, (Chopin 4). This is an example of verbal irony as the father knew her daughter's performance was terrible. The story ends with Jing-Mei as an adult and that her mother passes away. She then goes back to the piano to play it for fun.
In the novel excerpt “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan, the main character has struggles in-between what her mother wants her to be versus what she feels compelled to be. Jing-Mei mother wants Jing-Mei to be a young prodigy but, yet she is not one. So it cause conflict/tension between Jing-Mei and her mother because Jing-Mei does not want to be a prodigy nor has the skills, and because of this she has no drive. At this moment in time her mother has instilled the piano into her culture.
Tan was in shame and pain when she would feel that people were giving her mother a negative reaction. As Tan grew older she realized that it wasn’t a big deal that her mother’s English was not that well. She got used to it because she had been talking to her for years using “Broken English” and when her mother was around
To Tan her mother is very eloquent and has a rich way of speaking but that she sounds fractured or like she doesn't have a very good understanding of the English language too other people, that they can only understand about 50 to 90 percent of what her mother says. If not that then they say they can't understand her at all. (21) " Yet some of my friends tell me they understand fifty percent of what my mother says. Some say they understand eighty to ninety percent.
Her mother eventually forgives her for what she said in their argument and offers to send her the piano as a birthday gift. After her mother's death, Jing-mei accepts the piano. While looking through her mother's things, Jing-mei finds sheet music of the song she practiced for a talent show when she was a child. She sits down at the piano and plays the song, realizing that it wasn't as difficult as she perceived it to be when she was young. She then realizes that the two sheets of music, titled "Pleading Child" and "Perfectly Contented," are two halves of the same song.
Jing Mei, while portrayed as an obedient child, is only willing to listen to her mother to a certain extent. Throughout the story, it is consistently hinted that Jing Mei would eventually explode against her mother as an attempt to free herself from her mother’s chains. In addition, after the fiasco at the piano recital, she eventually derives further from her mother’s wishes as she “didn 't get straight A...didn 't become class president...didn 't get into Stanford...dropped out of college.” (54). On the flip side, Jing Mei’s mother is a stereotypical Chinese parent who is fully determined to ensure her daughter’s success in a new environment.
The piano is my favorite instrument of all the orchestra instruments. I like the piano because it can produce harsh loud noises for upbeat songs, or it can give soft melodies for the slower and more romantic type of songs. The piano is a really interesting instrument. Bartolomeo Christofori invented the Grand Piano in 1700. He had in mind to join percussion and strings to produce a sound that could be both soft and loud, harsh and gentle.
The piano, to me, is one of the most intriguing and versatile instruments. There are many who argue whether the piano is a string instrument or a percussion instrument. This is probably due to the way it is played: by pressing the black and white keys with your fingers, suggesting percussion. However, the keys strike strings, suggesting it to be a string instrument. The piano is amazing in that it contains the most strings of any string instruments.
“For unlike my mother, I did not believe I could be anything I wanted to be, I could only be me.” (Tan 24). With this statement you can see that she does not agree with her mother. Jing-Mei’s Mother was raised in Chinese culture, therefore she is very strict and demanding to Jing-Mei to do what she wants. From doing a chore, to hobbies or even Jing-Mei’s passion.
