Not My Dream In the story “Two Kinds” by Amy Tan, we are shown the struggles of a young girl Jing-Mei. Her struggle is that of a young girl growing up and trying to find her own sense of identity. Her troubles are compounded by her mother, who convinces her that she can become someone important. Because of her mother’s constant overbearing behavior, Jing-Mei does everything she can to annoy and displease her mother even to the point of being a failure. This fight to find her own identity against her mother’s wishes shows how parents cannot control their child’s life; they can only point them in the right direction and let them make their own choices. In the onset of the story we find Jing-Mei’s mother convincing her that she “can be prodigy…” (491....

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