TWO KINDS

~Amy Tan~

Prepared By:
Azalida bt Tajudin
Suwaibah bt Mohd
Nasir
THEME

The struggle of mother’s

attempt to mold her
daughter into a child
prodigy.

“My mother got these magazines from people whose

houses she cleaned”(pag.41)
 CLIMAX
-Old Chong and her
mother sign her up for a
talent show
- Jing Mei performed a
talent show.

RAISING ACTION FALLING ACTION

- Her mother signed -Jing Mei made a
up for piano lesson mistakes while
and piano practice playing on the
for her daughter’s stage.
Jing Mei -Disappointed her
parents

RESOLUTION
EXPOSITION -Never played a
-Ni Kan’s mother piano again and was
mold her only offered a piano from
daughter into a child her mother
prodigy
QUOETS FOR PLOT
 ING
SETT
PLACE

My mother believed you could be

anything you State
United wantedoftoAmerica
be in America
(page 40)
United State of America
She had talked to Mr.Chong,who lived on
the first floor of our apartment building
(page 42)
An apartment
 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

Time
Time
At night and at evening
At night and at evening

Every
Every nightnight aftermy
after dinner dinner
mothermy andmother
I would sitand
at
I wouldthe sit at the Formica
Formica topped kithentopped
table. kithen
A piano for me to practice on everyday,two
table.(page 41) hours a day,
from four until six
A piano for me to practice on everyday,two
CHARACTERS G-MEI re s: the
JIN e n t w o c u lt u
ll io u s c h il d c a ught betwe e r 's h o m e ; and
•A rebe p revails in her m o th
t ha t
Chinese cu ltu re
e v a il s e v e ry w here else.
one that pr cipline and
the American t te m p t s a t d is
e s is ts h e r mother's a ement that
•S h e r
f h ig h a c h ie v
e s s u re s o dren.
resents the pr ty pically plac e o n th e ir c h il
immigra n t p a re n t s
h e r m o th e r is using her to
ls o u n d e rs tands that o Jong
•Sh e a e r fr ie n d L in d
ion with h mother
win a competit e the piano, s h e t e ll s h e r
g t o p r a c t ic a bies she
•Refusin d , li k e t h e b
s h e w is h e s s he were dea n d o n w h en s he
that as forced t o a b a
h e r m o th e r w
knows
fled China.
MOTHER
• A Chinese immigrant who wants her
daughter to have the best of both worlds:
Chinese tradition and American
opportunity.
•She has a tendency to try to make her
daughter into her own image rather than
allow her to develop into her own person.
 CHARACTERS
Mr. C
h
•Also ong
r know
r gh te d eaf an n as O
Fathe t o r 's f a t h e r
o t h e r- d a u d p a ld Cho
r a e m rt ng—is
The nar involved in th s. ially b
l ind pi Jing-m
s n o t s s o n the • At Jing a no tea ei's
•He i r p i an o le
n f a c t, - M c
struggl
e ove t h e re cital; i o r only o
n
ei dis
a s t
h er
d o e s attend e i s h o rrified e who
c h
rous r
ecital
•He t e ll i f h a n c e . e e r s he is t
t o r c a n 't p e rf o rm enthu he
narra a t h e r s i as tically.
t l y am used
sile n

Lindo Jong
•Also called A e ss
untie Lindo, sh o n g e s e C h
Uncle Tin and is e is married to averly J
the mother of W W Li t tl e s t Chin nt i e Lindo's
precocious che averly, the•‘‘Chinatown's erly Jong is Au
narrator's rival.
ss prodigy who
is the p i on , " Wav
Cham e g ro w n up
•Lindo goads er. av
the narrator's m daught the narrator h en competing
bragging about other into • S he and v e l o ng be
her daughter's r and h a
musical talent. dubious tog eth e
n e a no ther
with o
SU,QUOETS FOR CHARACTERS

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