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Tan Two Kinds

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In the short story “Two Kinds”, by the author, Amy Tan intends to make the readers understand the real purpose behind the story by illustrating what is the real problem between her and her mother, she doesn’t speak out as an authority she is using her own point of view as a narrator to explained what she has experienced by living in The United States when her mother culture is from a different country. The daughter tried to explain her feelings and events of her childhood and how frustrated she is feeling for failing her mother expectations giving the story a bittersweet relationship between mother and daughter but a good sign of forgiveness end.

The young Chinese American “June” in the story is going through a lot of pressure by living under her mom different lifestyle, Suyuan is the name of the mother she was born and raised in Asia but then she moved to the united states wanting the best for her family because she always said The United States was the country of opportunities but deep inside she was living with sadness and depression after having to left her twin baby girls in China in 1949. Suyuan the mother wanted her daughter June to be an American prodigy she was still applying the Asian culture on her and wanted June to just obey her orders by doing what she wanted not what she was really good at. After …show more content…

After June explained to the readers all of her countless attempts to make her mother happy she completely quits taking orders from her, she assumed that her talent show was a fiasco, that probably meant never had to play the piano again but two days after school while June was watching TV her mother came out of the kitchen in an angry way wanted to make June go to the piano lesson but June refuses to live under her rules and wanted to stop being her “ slave” they got into a really bad situation and argument. “ You wanted me to be someone that I’m not” (Tan 478) her mother replied to

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