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In the short stories "Catch the Moon" and "Two Kinds" there are two kids who have a conflict with their parents. Jing-mei and Luis are different but yet similar in ways that they treat their parents. Jing-mei and Luis differences will be outweighed and they will be more alike than they are different. Jing-mei is a young child with a mother who has high expectations of her. Jing-mei was happy about who she was. Jing-mei’s mother wanted her to become famous because of the commercial she watched on the T.V. She tried everything to get Jing-mei to be a prodigy. She pressures Jing-mei to her breaking point. Jing-mei finally snapped and every time her mother made her work harder, she yelled at her. Jing-mei thought different than her mother on becoming a talented prodigy. The more they fought, the more they disliked each other. Then they realized piano was not only the cause of their problems, but the solution as well. Luis, a teenage trouble maker, …show more content…
Luis is being forced to work for his dad under no pay. Jing-mei is being forced by her mother to become a talented prodigy at piano playing. Both of them end up knowing that their parents were just trying to do what was best for them. Luis finds a girl that he is falling in love with and changes the way he looks at his life. Jing-mei is finally pushed over the edge when her mom pressures her to continue to play piano after her fail at the talent show. They both have issues to settle with their parents and in the end they are resolved. Both children have an issue in their life that when they either get pushed to the breaking point or find a motive they change their life to make it better. They both encounter an issue which changes their outlook. Jing-mei gets into an argument with her mom. Luis finds a girl that he'd do anything for. Both Jing-mei and Luis are alike and different but the differences are outweighed by what they go through in their
Johnny and Dally are both similar, yet at the same time they are different. In S.E Hinton's book The Outsiders, Dally and Johnny both do not value their lives and they both are mentally tough. Contraversly Dally is much stronger than Johnny, but Johnny has a softer heart than Dally. Johnny and Dally are like a ying yang, with all good there is some bad and with all bad there is some good. In this case with Johnny and Dally, with all similarities there are differences and with all differences there are similarities. But is it really possible for two different people with different surplus be alike, or are they just pretending they like each other.
Most films captivate the audience’s interest through the main character. This film did just that. Through the main character Li Cunxin, I was able to notice the amount of hard work and dedication which lead Li to become a famous ballet dancer known worldwide. The film based on the autobiography by Li Cunxin, “Mao’s Last Dancer” directed by Bruce Beresford is about a Chinese boy named Li Cunxin who was born into a large family of 6 boys. At the age of eleven, Li was selected from a poor Chinese village by Madam Mao’s cultural representatives to leave his family and study ballet in Beijing. The film focussed on his eventual departure from China to U.S.A after being selected by a world leading choreographer, Ben Stevenson and the consequences that followed.
Did you know that in Ancient China, a parent could legally kill their children if they were disobedient? It's not legal now, but Chinese parents still expect their children to be obedient. In Chinese culture, family values and expectations are very important. So when Jing-mei is disobedient, it shows that she has been affected by American culture. This shows that Jing-mei is more American than Chinese because she has the American thought that she has the right to be herself and no one can change that, she shows independence, and argues with her mother. That fact conflicts with her mother because she want Jing-mei to be the perfect Chinese prodigy.
The relationship between June and her mother, Suyuan, is far from flawless, yet has the foundation of love that can never be destroyed. There are many misunderstandings between these two women that are unfortunately left unresolved until after Suyuan's death. Amy Tan uses this relationship and all of its complications to teach the readers important themes about life. Ultimately, love between this mother and daughter prevails through all conflict, and even beyond Suyuan's death, when her long-cherished wish of uniting her daughters is fulfilled.
The major theme of both poems is that one often does not realize their parent’s actions until later in life and gains more insight and experience through age. The poems also draw a significance because both fathers are working men.
When she arrives, she feels somehow proud to be Chinese. But her main reason why she went back home is to reflect her mother past life on her present life. Through the setting and her relatives, Jing Mei learns the nature of Chinese American culture. The main setting takes place in China, effects of the main character’s point of view through changing her sense of culture and identity. The time period plays a large role on the story, there is disconnect between the mother and daughter who came from different culture. In “A Pair of Tickets”, we learn it’s a first person narrator, we also learn detail of what the narrator is thinking about, detail of her past and how life compared to China and the US are very different. The theme is associated with the motherland and also has to deal with her mother’s death and half sisters. Her imagination of her sister transforming into adult, she also expected them to dresses and talk different. She also saw herself transforming, the DNA of Chinese running through her blood. In her own mind, from a distance she thinks Shanghai, the city of China looks like a major American city. Amy Tan used positive imagery of consumerism to drive home her themes of culture and identity, discovering her ancestral
She decides to switch her focus on her daughter becoming a prodigy at playing the piano. The mother quickly found put together a schedule of piano practices that Jing-Mei would partake in with Mr. Chong, a neighbor in their apartment building. “My mother traded housecleaning serves for weekly lessons and a piano for to practice on every day, two hours a day, from four to six (Tan 323). When her mother told her what she would do from then on, Jing-Mei was aggravated because she did not want to try to live up to her mother’s expectations anymore. “Why don't you like me the way I am? I’m not a genius! I can’t play the piano. And even if I could, I wouldn't go on TV if you paid me a million dollars!” (Tan 323). At that moment is when she could not take having to live up to her mother’s expectations any longer. She quickly detected that because Mr. Chong was so old that “his eyes were too slow to keep up with the wrong notes I was playing” (Tan 323). She learned that she could make as many mistakes as she wanted and Mr. Chong would not even
The conflict in her life is that she of two different cultural groups, in which she wants to embrace both groups but the adult, children’s grandmother whom she nicknamed “awful grandmother,” is not allowing them to do. The setting took place outside a church where the awful grandmother went to pray while leaving the children, Micaela, and her two brothers, outside until she returns. Awful grandmother instructs the children to stay in front of the entrance and do nothing, such going across the street to play games, purchase fried food, balloons, comic books, etc., live like an American child. In addition, they were also not allowed to in the church where their Mexican cultural is practiced. Therefore, Micaela became irritated waiting for so long, so she entered the church to see what was taking so long to pray, however, she was told by the awful grandmother to leave and wait
Li-Young Lee’s poem, A Story, explores a complex relationship between a father and his five year old son. Although the poem’s purpose is to elaborate on the complexity of the relationship and the father’s fear of disappointing his son, the main conflict that the father is faced with is not uncommon among parents. Lee is able to successfully portray the father’s paranoia and son’s innocence through the use of alternating point of view, stanza structure, and Biblical symbolism. The use of third person omniscient point of view allows the reader to know the inner thoughts of both characters in the poem. By knowing the thoughts of the father and his son, the reader is able to see both the father’s concerned thoughts and his son’s desire for a
Like them” (294-295). Although the mother’s words are unkind, Jing Mei ultimately crosses the line, thus creating a fracture in their relationship that she believes will never be mended. In Jing Mei’s child perception, she believes that because her mother stops pushing her to play piano
The film begins with a paved empty lot. However, as the camera pans, a sea of people behind barriers can be seen. The noises, the amount of people who are struggling to stand makes the scenario seems like the beginning of a riot. Yet, they are all merely trying to get tickets to get back home. Among those migrant workers, there are two characters, a husband and a wife named Zhang Changhua and Chen Suqin respectively. They left their little children in Huilong for the grandparents to take care and moved to Guangzhou city. When they left, their first born daughter was only a child. As the parents later share with the director, they were left with “no choice” but to leave their children.
Jing-Mei tries to live up to her mother’s expectations but feels that her mother expects more from her than she can deliver. She doesn’t understand why her mother is always trying to change her and won’t accept her for who she is. She feels pressure from her family when she is compared to her cousin Waverly and all her accomplishments. Soon the conflict grows to resentment as her mother tests her daily on academics, eventually causing Jing-Mei to give up while her mother struggles to get her attention and cooperation. Her mother avoids arguing with her daughter early in the story, continuing to encourage her to strive for fame. Her mother’s next assignment for her daughter is piano lessons. This goes along pretty well until her mother forces her to participate in a talent show. The daughter’s failure on her performance at the talent show causes embarrassment to her mother. Conflict is evident when two days later, after the talent show, she reminds her daughter that it’s time for piano practice and the daughter refuses to obey her mother. The conflict that the daughter feels boils over in an outburst of anger and resentment towards her mother for trying to make her something that she is not. Harsh words are spoken causing the mother to retreat and not speak of this event ever
Jing-Mei was forced to take piano lessons; this only further upset her as she felt that she was a constant disappointment. Her mother was mad at her on a regular basis because Jing-Mei stood up for herself and explained to her that she didn’t want to be a child prodigy.
In both stories, the main characters had people pressuring them to be something they didn’t want to be. However, they came over their individual dilemmas. Jing-Mei learnt later on in life, after her mother’s passing, while Spear learnt early in life. They both rebelled, but had different attitudes towards approaching their problem. These stories have taught me that in life, everyone will always expect something of you. With some expectancies comes pressure and a fear of failure, but with a strong sense of your true identity, one is able to decide if those expectations are worth fulfilling or not. Only you can make what you want of yourself, so don’t let any one else make you.
This movie follows the relationship of the two main characters from the time Léon saves Mathilda's life against his better judgment. This event causes both of their lives to take a detour that ends up giving meaning to both of their existences. She is trapped living in a dysfunctional family environment with an abusive father and step-mother, a hateful step-sister and her quite little brother with only a dismal outlook on her future. She is a precocious young girl who's life seems to have several parallels with the Cinderella story. Léon is a stoic, uneducated and an unremorseful killer that is totally unemotional and unattached to the world around him. He becomes the prince that saves her.