The author Amy Tan used different types of figurative language to develop character. In “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” by Walter Dean Myers and in “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan figurative language plays a huge role in character and scene development. The previous text isn’t even half of the figurative language elements used in the two short stories. The use of this narrative element was executed masterfully .
In the short story “Both Sides of the Fence,” by Teresa Bateman, the main character, Alberto, conveys the theme that you must look on both sides of a fence in order to making decisions through his thoughts, actions, and speech. In this story, Alberto attempts to prevent people in his pueblo from benefiting from his tree that was left for him by his family. As the story progresses, he suspects his neighbor from purloining his apples, but then realizes his wrongdoings and his foolishness. Through his character transitions, Alberto helps reveal the them that he has to consider both sides of the argument in order to put up a proper argument.
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.
In the short story “Two Kinds”, by Amy Tan, the Amy’s mother want her to become a prodigy. She tries everything to get Amy to be a star. She eventually makes Amy play the piano two hours a day. Amy hates that her mother makes her do this, and she tells her that she can’t change to make her mother happy. She says, ‘“Why don’t you like me the way I am?”
Similar to “The Story of an Hour”, the marriage in “In The Evenings” by Melissa Checker causes those involved to feel trapped; however, instead of feeling trapped in the structure of marriage, the family feels trapped by it instead; the marriage is not the direct source of the conflict in the story, but rather prevents the characters from solving or escaping the main conflict of the story, the mother’s short temper and verbal abuse. While the story begins innocently, describing a mother and her daughters going to the mall to run errands, the use of the word “heavy” represents the buildup of pressure that foreshadows the mother’s rageful outburst: “On summer nights, when it's light until after the fireflies arrive, the air is heavy and moist” (Checker #).
One day she got called up to the office of her little brothers school. When she got there, she saw Nurzhan sitting in the principal's office, he was sitting there since he got in a fight with someone. They asked her to call her dad and when he came she was supposed to translate. When she translated, everything she said was incorrect. Another time she had to be responsible was when
In the story that being raised in a different culture can cause conflicts. In the story “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan Is telling about how immigrated parents from other countries can have different perspectives than their kids. Tan is also showing how not having a good communication with your kid can make them disobedient. "Only two kinds of daughters," she shouted in Chinese. " Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind!”
Born a Crime and Two Kinds tell captivating stories of the hardships faced by two young children trying to find their places in the world. Though both Trevor Noah, author of Born a Crime and Amy Tan, author of Two Kinds, highlight the intricacies of identity and the impact of societal pressure, they differ in their narrative approach and literary style. While Born a Crime is a firsthand account of Trevor Noah’s experiences growing up during apartheid in South Africa, Two Kinds is a fictional story about the hardships of a Chinese- American girl navigating her mother’s unrealistic expectations. As opposed to Tan’s third-person perspective, Noah recalls moments from his own life that demonstrate the difficulties of finding his place in society:
In “Two Kinds” By: Amy Tan The title itself embodies the symbols, which embodies the major themes of the work. “Two Kinds” is about a strict Chinese mother who pushes her Daughter Jing-mei to not only do her best, but also to be the best. “Only two kinds of daughters, she shouted in chinese. Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind!
“Two Kinds” is a short story within Amy tan’s most popular novel, The Joy Luck Club. The book is divided into four connected sections with each containing a group of stories that could stand alone. Similar to the other short stories within the collection, “Two Kinds” is a representation of the complexities mother-daughter relationships encounter in San Francisco’s China-town. The focus of the story is the troublesome but unavoidable gap between mothers born in China before the communist revolution and their American-born daughters who must settle the burden of their Chinese ancestry and American dream of success. Although the protagonist of the story Jing-Mei constantly pushes away her mother’s desires to make her a musical prodigy, she gains insight into her mother’s reasoning decades later.
Night after night when she would fail the tests and see the disappointment on her mothers face she began to die inside. Something had told her that the prodigy inside of her was angry and powerful and she began to use this anger and power to rebel against her mother. Ni Kan felt as if she had finally won when for two or three months she didn’t hear any more talk of becoming a prodigy. Then one day her mother was watching the Ed Sullivan show on TV and saw a young Chinese girl with a Peter Pan haircut and the sassiness of a Shirley Temple pounding out music on a piano. The next thing Ni Kan knew was that she was being forced to take piano lessons by Mr. Chong, a retired piano teacher who lived on the first floor of their apartment complex in exchange for cleaning services provided by her mother.
The story has a conflict that is related to opposition. The narrator disagrees with what her mother wants her to be, since the narrator felt that her mother was controlling her for years. For instance, the mother in the story suggests that her daughter would become the perfect girl and she would become famous. The traditional daughter relates to the American icon, “Shirley Temple”. Furthermore, the narrator goes through a rough time during the story because her mother feels like she can be good at something and stick to it.
The conflict reaches its peak when Ni Kan says “I wish I’d never been born! I wish I were dead! Like them” referring to the children her mother had lost (389). The author does not mention another conversation about Ni Kan becoming a prodigy
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
Nevertheless, as the story unfolds, Tan explains in more detail of the relationship of the mother and her daughter. In which the mother fully believed her daughter would become this great prodigy. Therefore, pressuring her daughter
