Jing-Mei Character Changes

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Parents think they know best Have you ever as a child wary about why your parents wanting to turn you into someone, other than yourself. “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan is about a daughter, Jing-mei, feeling trapped by the unattainable expectations of her mother. Growing up, the mother-daughter relationship gets ruined when the daughter does not believe in her ability as strong as her mother does. Jing-mei still have love for mother even though their relationship was ruined. After a careful analysis of the story, the reader understands how Jing-mei’s feelings toward her mother changed, why her feeling changed, and how those changed feelings affected the entire story. Throughout the story, Jing-mei’s feelings towards her mother changed in important ways. When Jing-mei was a young girl she idolized her mother and looked forward to doing well on each of the tests with which she challenged Jing-mei. The narrator …show more content…

There are moments in life where people demoralize others because of the actions they have done, or just to hurt them deeply. Jing-mei stated, “Then I wish I’d never been born” I shouted “I wish I were dead, Like them” (Tan 231). Jing-mei was so angry with her mother that she compares herself to the dead twin babies. Because of it Jing-mei knew it was the only fact that would stop the mother from forcing Jing-mei into a prodigy. No one should ever take an argument to granted because what was said in the disputement can be taken to the grave without knowing if that person really meant that. Jing-mei expressed this by, “ I rubbed the old silk against my skin, then wrapped them in tissue and decided to take them home with me” (Tan 233). Jing-mei missed her mother so much, she loved her mother and she never meant to hurt the mother comparing the babies to herself. Sometimes the past can come back and hurt you in ways you never imagined, and Jing-mei past came back when her mother

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