Amy Tan Two Kinds Literary Analysis

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Amy Tan's story “Two Kinds” is about a mother who brings her child to America to offer her a better life. Furthermore, the goal for the mother for bringing her child to America is to have her daughter be destined for greatness, even if it means having her daughter try out every opportunity to find what where her greatness might be hiding. The overall theme is in Amy Tan's story “Two Kinds” reflects on the relationship between the mother and daughter. Not only the relationship between the two but showing that mothers will do many things for their children to make their lives better and to ultimately give them the life they never had. In sum, “Two Kinds” reflects on how many mothers do things in their lives for their children that at the time they are unaware of but years down the road, the child finds out that there’s a reason in which their mother did the things in which they did. The overall reason being for mothers doing things for their child is that they love their child unconditionally and are behind them no matter where life takes them. Throughout the …show more content…

Although, this willingness is blind to the narrator as she fails to see this. As well as the narrator believes she is not able to be the person her mother wants her to be. It is not until we learn of the narrator's mother's passing that the narrator fully understands why the mother had done the things she did for all those years. This story also emphasizes that mothers are very courageous women who would do anything for their children even if it means moving halfway across the world just to give them the chances they never got to have growing up. However, the overall message to take away from this story is how much of a reflection it is regarding how far a mother's unconditional love for her child can

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