analysis of short story new

8/7/2019 analysis of short story new

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Prepared By:

Azalida bt Tajudin

Suwaibah bt Mohd Nasir

TWO KINDS~Amy Tan~


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The struggle of mothers

attempt to mold her

daughter into a childprodigy.

My mother got these magazines from people whose houses she

cleaned(pag.41)


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EXPOSITION-Ni Kans mother

mold her onlydaughter into a child

prodigy

RAISING ACTION

- Her mother signedup for piano lessonand piano practice

for her daughtersJing Mei

CLIMAX-Jing Mei made a

mistakes while playing

on the stage.-Disappointed her

parents

FALLING ACTION- Never played apiano again and wasoffered a piano from

her mother

CONCLUSION- Jing-mei better

understands hermother's sacrificesand motivations.


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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)

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).

"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)

EVIDENCE FROM THE TEXT

EXPOSITION

CLIMAX

RAISING

ACTION


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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)

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.(page46)

FALLINGACTION

CONCLUSION


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PLACE

United State of America

United State of America

An apartment

My mother believed you could be anything you

wanted to be in America (page 40)

She had talked to Mr.Chong,who lived on the first

floor of our apartment building (page 42)


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Time

At night and at evening

Every night after dinner my mother and I would sit at the

Formica topped kithen table.

A piano for me to practice on everyday,two hours a day,

from four until six

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

TimeAt night and at evening

Every night after dinner my mother and I would sit

at the Formica topped kithen table.(page 41)

A piano for me to practice on everyday,two hours a day,

from four until six(page 42)


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JingMei

A rebellious childcaught betweentwo cultures: theChinese culture

that prevails in hermother's home;

and the American

She resists hermother's attempts

at discipline

She also understandsthat her mother isusing her to win a

competition with herfriend Lindo Jong

Refusing topractice the

piano

CHARACTERS

"You want me to be something

that I'm not!" I sobbed. " I'll

never be the kind of daughter you

want me to be!"(page 45)


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She has a tendency to tryto make her daughter intoher own image rather thanallow her to develop into

her own person.

Independencewoman

Mother

Every night after dinner my mother

and I would sit at the Formica toppedkitchen 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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CHARACTERS

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