So, she went home, set down at the piano, and played with Ma’s spirits. It reminded her that she still had ma in her heart and Pa still loved
She was not encouraged to have dreams, and she had no role model or hero growing up. Her parents biggest concern was to have the neighbors respect and like their family. But she was smart, and had friends in the neighborhood to help her through her
She worried about her mom leaving or giving her up like her own mother did, she also thought that even good people could be bad if they had the opportunity so she didn’t
When she was young, she could not process the way her father raised and treated her, so she believed everything he said. When she is able to understand, her tone changes and becomes clinical and critical remembering the way he constantly let her
That dream is crushed by the government, when they decided to send kids to schools in there district. It shows that one of her dreams was crushed because of her family’s background when her father tells her,
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.
Her mother died when she was at a young age, though that made her become more determined with the desire to expose her mother to the world and gain new
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?”
She faces powerful adversity as a teenager, which puts her in a hole. She didn’t let that stop her though. This represents how she made the change to want to get better, and developed a self-motivator within
While reading the story, you can tell in the narrators’ tone that she feels rejected and excluded. She is not happy and I’m sure, just like her family, she wonders “why her?” She is rejected and never accepted for who she really is. She is different. She’s not like anyone else
The helpful, the trustworthy, the narcissists, and the hateful. These are just some of the categories that people are placed in the books Maus by Art Spiegelman, and Night by Elie Wiesel. These authors use the strategy of labeling characters with certain attributes or characteristics to make their personalities clearer. Everyone from main characters to brief appearances in these stories are given a certain nature from the beginning. Art Spiegelman and Elie Wiesel both use characterization to display the different types of people in the Holocaust.
In 1919 at the close of the Great War, the combined world powers convened at Versailles, on the outskirts of Paris, to define the conditions of the Armistice that ended the war. The product of their meeting was the Treaty of Versailles which placed restrictions on the German military, forced Germany to pay reparations to the Allies and placed full responsibility of the war on Germany. These conditions of the treaty created a loss of sovereignty of Germany and placed hardships on the German population. The combined result was a decline of social and economical capital in German society.
“Ashamed of my mother”, she states, but as she matured,
This puts stress on the mother and shows how much the mother wants a great education for her daughter and what she will do to try and get it. We learn throughout “The First Day” that the mother is very ashamed of herself. “My mother looks at me, then looks away. I know almost all of her looks, but this one is brand new to me.” (Jones, 87)
The mother was a housecleaner, and wanted June to be worth more than that. So she was obsessed with attempting to make June a prodigy. The mother was watching a show that had piano music, and wants June to start playing piano. She exchanges housecleaning services for piano lessons for June. June doesn’t want any of
