TWO KINDS

~Amy Tan~

Prepared By:
Azalida bt Tajudin
Suwaibah bt Mohd
Nasir
THEME

The struggle of mother’s

attempt to mold her
daughter into a child
prodigy.

“My mother got these magazines from people whose

houses she cleaned”(pag.41)
 CLIMAX
-Jing Mei made a
mistakes while playing
on the stage.
-Disappointed her
parents

RAISING ACTION
FALLING ACTION
- Her mother signed
- Never played a
up for piano lesson
piano again and was
and piano practice
offered a piano from
for her daughter’s
her mother
Jing Mei

CONCLUSION
EXPOSITION
- Jing-mei better
-Ni Kan’s mother
understands her
mold her only
mother's sacrifices
daughter into a child
and motivations.
prodigy
 “

EVIDENCE FROM THE TEXT

EXPOSITION "you could be anything you wanted to be in America." "Of course,

you can be a prodigy, too," my mother told me when I was nine”.
(page 40)

RAISING
ACTION Three days after watching the Ed Sullivan Show my mother told me
what my schedule would be for piano lessons and piano practice.
She had talked to Mr. Chong, who lived on the first floor of our
apartment building.” (page 42).

CLIMAX
By then I saw my mother's face, her stricken face. The audience
clapped weakly, and I walked back to my chair, with my whole
face quivering as I tried not to cry, I heard a little boy whisper
loudly to his mother. "That was awful," and mother whispered
"Well, she certainly tried." (page 44)
 FALLING
ACTION

“So she surprised me. A few years ago she offered to give me the
piano, for my thirtieth birthday. I had not played in all those
years.” (page 45)

CONCLUSION

“My mother had died a few months before and I had been getting
things in order for my father a little bit at a time.”(page 46)
 ING
SETT
PLACE

My mother believed you could be

anything you State
United wantedoftoAmerica
be in America
(page 40)
United State of America
She had talked to Mr.Chong,who lived on
the first floor of our apartment building
(page 42)
An apartment
 A few weeks later Old Chong and my mother conspired to
have me play in a talent show that was to held in the
church hall.(page 43)

A church

Time
Time
At night and at evening
At night and at evening

Every
Every nightnight aftermy
after dinner dinner
mothermy andmother
I would sitand
at
I wouldthe sit at the Formica
Formica topped kithentopped
table. kithen
A piano for me to practice on everyday,two
table.(page 41) hours a day,
from four until six
A piano for me to practice on everyday,two
CHARACTERS
A rebellious child
caught between
two cultures: the
Chinese culture
that prevails in her
mother's home;
and the American

Refusing to
practice the
Jing She resists her
mother's attempts
piano
Mei at discipline

"You want me to be something that

She also I'm not!" I sobbed. " I'll never be
understands that her
mother is using her the kind of daughter you want me
to win a competition to be!"(page 45)
with her friend Lindo
Jong
CHARACTERS

Mother She has a tendency to try

to make her daughter into
her own image rather than
allow her to develop into
her own person.

“Every night after dinner my mother

and I would sit at the Formica topped
kitchen table. She would present new
tests, taking her examples from stories
of amazing children that she read in
Ripley's Believe It or Not or Good
Housekeeping, Reader's digest, or any
of a dozen other magazines she kept
in a pile in our bathroom”.(page 41 )
 CHARACTERS
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