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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