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Explore the external and internal conflicts faced by Jing-mei and her mother in Amy Tan's story "Two Kinds". The struggle between expectations and identity unfolds as Jing-mei navigates her mother's aspirations and her own sense of self.
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The conflict in “Two Kinds” is mainly external. In paragraph two Jing-mei’s mother says, “Of course, you can be a prodigy too.” This quote is saying how her mother what’s Jing-mei to be a prodigy, something she isn’t, despite her inability to do so. Mabye her mother did only want what was best for Jing-mei at the beginning, but soon she only sees her as she wants to. While some internal conflict is present within Jing-mei, she knows who she is by the first lesson. Her mother wanted her to be first, a Chinese Sherlly Temple, then some kind of a math genius, with many others in between before forcing her to play the piano.
external conflicts happen everyday whether we realize it or not. In the story "Two Kinds" the mother says, "so ungrateful, i heard her mutter in chinese, if she had as much talent as she had temper, she'd be famous now." The mother and daughter have an external conflict because the mom is pushing her daughter to be something that she's not. the author wanted to just be herself but the mother wanted more for her. The mom wanted her to have a better life than she had.
The conflict in the story “Two Kinds” is internal because a young girl is afraid of losing her inner prodigy. A part of paragraph nine reads, “But sometimes the prodigy in me became impatient. ‘If you don’t hurry up and get me out of here, I’m disappearing for good,’ it warned. ‘And then you’ll always be nothing.” (Tan, para. 9). At the beginning of the story the young girl had many different expectations as to what the prodigy side of her would look like, thus leading to her setting very high standards for what she could achieve. Whenever the girl’s mother gave her tests, she wasn’t able to complete them, which caused her to start believing that she wasn’t able to do anything and led to her blaming her mother when the girl just didn’t believe in herself. As the story continues the girl starts to realize that her fear of being nothing is coming true, and instead of trying to stop that from happening, she embraces it.
2nd Block • To what degree does one’s culture influence the way one views others and the world? • The way you were raised and your knowledge determines how you interpret certain things. • Conditional based on experience • To a major degree because the way someone is taught is the way they act or interpret things.
3rd Block • To what degree does one’s culture influence the way one views others and the world? • People with their culture they tend to only see their culture. • Makes them curious about how the world and other people compare • It makes you see things differently based on what you’re exposed to.
