Two Halves of the Same Song

twain Halves of the Same Song My generate believed you could be anything you wanted to be in America (526). This is the first sentence in Two Kinds by Amy false topaz spoken by the narrators point of view, Jing-mei, the female child. The bal aney was a direct reflection of love vs. rebellion with the arrest and the fille, presented in a humorous almost sounding sarcastic pace to show the devil kinds of people in the story the one the generate thought the daughter should be and the one the daughter thought she should be, and in the end they accomplished that that was the same psyche.The story begins by giving humor to some of the mothers beliefs as if they were silly such as in America a psyche is unlimited to what they could be even if that is to be famous or precisely a homeowner, To understand what the mother meant you would have to know a miniscule about her background and where she came from. She was from China where women didnt have really many an(prenominal) op tions on what their role in invigoration could be, so for her daughter she matte that there were endless possibilities. Her mother in my eyes was more of what we identical to call stage moms.She hoped for her daughter to be the better at something, anything sort of of nothing at all, so she came across pushy verses loving. One would count on that these were the mothers dreams adjudicateing to be fulfilled through the daughter. Jing-mei started to feel uniform she had to be someone she wasnt in order to make her mother proud. She verbalise I was filled with a sense that I would soon be perfect. My mother and father would adore me (527). App arently she felt like if she wasnt great at something they wouldnt love her.The narrator makes it seem like it was the mother all along who wanted the daughter to be something she wasnt, and at one point the daughter wanted to succeed scarce as much as much as her mother did, but the fear of failure and rejection stopped her. Next came the piano lessons. The idea of Jing-mei performing the piano was odd, because her mother was watching an American TV show and dictum a young Chinese girl playing. Ni-Kan her mother would say which meant, you watch, and and so made her practice the piano day after day to ferment better than the Chinese girl on TV.After this point the daughter rebels against the mother trying to fail to prove that this is who she was, ordinary. If she didnt try at anything she couldnt fail. The daughter didnt realize how proud her mother was of her just for trying. In the earlier days when you were born you were born into a certain class, and that class particularized who you could become in life whether it be a king, farmer, merchant, or a blacksmith. In this story the situation seems very similar. Why would Jing-mei want to be famous or smart when her mother was merely a house cleaner? maybe she was content with the life she was born into and didnt feel as if she needed to be talented to be ha ppy. Her mother put her in a recital exaggerate to her friends how Jing-mei loved to play the piano. This was her opportunity to show her mother who she was and it wasnt the person she wanted her to be, so Jing-mei went up and played horribly. However, through all of the disobedience trying to stay true to who she was, which seemed to be a slacker, the mother compose pushed her to try and not give up.Years later the mother dies and Jing-mei realizes that her mother truly did love her and was proud of her. She only pushed her because she wanted her to be the best at who she wanted to be and let her know that just because you are born into a certain lifestyle that doesnt define who you are, you define who you are. The tone of the story begins to sound happy verses the angry, sarcastic, and once comical tone making fun of the mother. Jing-mei actually starts to get the point her mother move so hard to install in her.One of the last sentences of the story caught my eye. It seemed to sum up everything in the story and why the conflicts of interests occurred. And after I played them some(prenominal) a few times, I realized they were cardinal halves of the same song(534). Two halves of the same song could have been the rubric for Any Tans short story. The mother and the daughter both wanted the same things for the daughter to be happy, and be the best at what made her happy but looking at it from only one way you would not have figured that out.In this story it was told completely from the daughters point of view. If the mother were to narrate this story it would have been completely different. Maybe she would have not seemed as so unhappy with her life that she had to stretch out it through her daughters, but the daughter would have seemed as someone who didnt care for there mothers affection and just wanted to be disobedient. at that place is always two sides to a story but in this matter they seemed to be arguing the same story. Two halves of the same s ong(534).