Two kinds by amy tam

"Two Kinds"--taken from the book "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan--is a story about a mother who always has a wish that Jing-Mei, her nine-year-old daughter, would become a prodigy. Coming to America with only two bare hands left after losing everything in China, Jing-Mei's mother doesn't hesitate to start the life all over again by cleaning people's houses. Moreover, she never feels regretful when looking back at the past because there always …

…understood her mother's traditional wish to become "an obedient girl" and continued her own piano lessons, or if Jing-Mei's mother had not pushed her daughter's young mind over the limits to develop whatever her talent, it would not take Jing-Mei more than twenty years to realize that she could have been a piano prodigy. But no matter how we look at them and analyze their shared characteristics, they both deserve our compassion, understanding and sympathy