People migrate to America

Reading Amy Tans both(prenominal) Kinds for the kickoff time is confusing. The message is not quite clear until unmatchable studies the context of the allegory. The story deals with immigrants and the Ameri quarter expectation for success, hardly primarily of a daugthters relationship to her find. Two Kinds tells the story of Jing-mei and her mother. Jing-meis mother migrated to America later on losing everything in China. When she was young, Jing-meis mother told her the potential o being successful in America. You scum bag be a prognostic, her mother says.Her mother had given Jing-mei forte-piano lessons much(prenominal)(prenominal) that her talents leave behind show. Eventhough Jing-mei recognizes that she has the talent, she refuses to give herself into it because she felt a sense of rebellion intimate her. She was not able to show her true talents because of her receive shortcomings. In the finis her mother gives up her hopes for her daughter. The conflict lies w ithin Jing-mei. She indigences to be something else and at the uniform time she wants just to be herself. She was at showtime just as excited to find her prodigy.But she felt the pressure coming from her mother and at the same time she felt impatient for it. Her mother. however, tried to impose to her what she cannot be. I wont let her change me, she tells herself in the mirror. Once she name out her inclination, she refused to attend and sharpen it partly because of her defiance towards her mother. Her mother, on the other hand, acted the way she did because of her pipe dream of success. People migrate to America in search of greener pastures, unless scholars entrust that what the immigrants could not achieve they pass to their sons or daughters.Jing-mei was a victim of such circumtance. Although, it was to a fault the intention of her mother to see her daughter succeed in life, Jing-mei felt shes being diged to something shes not. Jing-mei did not see that her mother had deep doctrine in her. Many years had passed before Jing-mei completed her mothers attempt to puzzle out her prodigy and found her true self. She had already realized her prodigy during the piano recital but she remained defiant. Even during her lessons, she knew she could be good at it, even become great with it.But she did not result it to happen. At her recital, she was surefooted she could do it, but because she did not take her lessons seriously, it ended shamefully for her and for her p bents. When she grew old, her parents gave her as a gift the piano her mother bought for her when she was young. She was at first unwilling to accept it. Her mother explained this your piano Always your piano. You only one can play You have natural talent. You could be a genius if you want to. Jing-mei found the gift as a peace offering.It gave her a observe to try again without feeling that she was doing it for the benefit of someone else. Playing it again, she found it easy enough to prove her mother had been right. In the end of the story where Jing-mei played the piano after some years without doing so, she played the appeal Child, the same piece she played unsuccessfully during the recital. She also noticed for the first time the piece on the opposite side entitled short Contented. Jing-mei understood that she was playing two halves of the same song, and it reflected her feelings.She was the pleading child and when she realized her mothers intentions and trust to her, she became perfectly contented. The storys moral runs two ways. First is with the parents not to push their sons or daughters too heavy(a) as to give them a hard time. They are, after all, just children who does not understand the real world. Second is for the children to be obedient to their parents, for parents only want what is best for their children. A jing-meis mother show Only two kinds of daughters Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind. It was disastrous that J ing-mei did not realize that her internal conflict did not arise from her mothers expectations but from the love and faith her mother had for her until her mother had already died. The story also points that ones prodigy lies in the persons will to succeed. Jing-meis failure at the recital was because she lacked the will to succeed, and at the same time, her rebeliousness towards her mother. It could be said as well that had her mother not pushed her too hard, Jing-mei could have done better and she would have move it at her own will.I was not able to recognize the message the first time I read the story, most especially the connection of the piano pieces mentioned at the end the Pleading Child and Perfectly Contented. But after reading it again and researching the context of the story, I came to appreciate it as big(a) lessons to parents and children. At the same time, the story also points to the importance of will forefinger to the success of a person. Defiance blinds us that even when we recognize our own strenghts and weaknesses, we sometimes refuse to let it show just to prove that others are wrong.We tell ourselves I am who I am without really knowledgeable who we really are. But the beauty of it all is that at the end of the day, we will come to realize our own shortcomings when left to find who we really are by ourselves. Summing up the lesson given by the story, it is best to be both kinds the kind that is obedient towards ones parents and the kind that follows ones own heart. It may not ever so be the case but, usually, once parents find out their childs talents, they cant help but enforce it, which, in the end, is best for the child. Show what you got and your parents will surely back end you up. Works Cited Tan, Amy. Two Kinds.