Pressure from parents can take many forms, such as academic or athletic performance. This pressure can have a significant impact on a child’s mental and emotional well-being and can affect their self-worth. It can also be hard to let your parents know, how you really feel about it, sometimes you just can’t tell them. I think that far too many children, find it too difficult not to have the same dreams as their parents. Then they just keep quiet and maybe stay unhappy. That a big problem for children today, but especially also years and decades ago. In “Two kinds” the mother also got an expatiation, that the daughter is going to play the piano and be a prodigy.
The story takes place in San Francisco in California during the early 1950s (L6, P1). The setting is important in understanding the cultural clashes between the mother and daughter. The daughter is a young girl around nine years old, who is American-born and raised in a Chinese American household. The mother is an immigrant from China who is determined to make a better life for herself and her daughter in America. The Mother lost everything In China, so she stood with nothing (L7, P1). This cultural divide is evident in the way they view the world and their expectations for the daughter's future. The mother is described as strong-willed and determined to see her daughter succeed. It is a first-person story. That means the point of you is the girl, we can see that by reading all her feelings, and knowing what she wants.
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