Amy Tan's Two Kinds

What should a mother teach to her daughter? Obviously, she has a lot of stuff need to teach. In the text “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan, the mother has high expectation to her daughter Jing-mei and tries her best to offer Jing-neither with best education as she can. On the other hand, the text “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid, the mother sets up a bunch of rules in order to teach her daughter. Both mothers plays their role in daughters’ early development and influence their daughters to aware how to achieve success. In the meantime, the daughters also required to obey those rules as prepare for the adulthood. Since mother has being as a good model for daughter, the daughter can learn a lot of stuff and take advantage from her mother’s experience.

Dr. Richard Trader acknowledges that the role of mother as a guide model for daughter to learning, which as a progress starts from early development until adulthood. He states, “The mother gives the daughter a living definition of who a woman is, and how she views her world. Her relationship with mother

Jing-mei states, ‘Pleading Child’ was shorter but slower; ‘Perfectly Contented’ was longer but faster. And after I had played them both a few times, I realized they were two halves of the same song”(6). This means that Jing-mei finally understand her mother and mother’s good intentions. The “Pleading Child” implies herself when she was a kid, who wants mother’s approval and against everything from her mother. Meanwhile, “Perfectly Contented” also implies herself but as an adult, who knows in depth about the term “mother”. Compare to childhood and adulthood, Jing-mei has insight about role of mother when she grows up and she has her own definition about the mother. She did not follow the plan that her mother wants at first; however, she becomes to the person that her mother expected but in different