Our parents have played a very valuable role in making us who we are. They guide our paths and sometimes set expectations that we never understand until maturity. In Amy Tan’s “Two Kinds” we insight a conflict between traditional parents with high expectations and child resisted her parent’s prodigy thoughts. In a typical Chines family, I shared a similar experience as the main protagonist Jing Mei; who ordered by her mother to perform different tasks "...multiplying numbers in my head, finding the queen of hearts in a deck of cards..."(716-717). In China, during elementary school, my parents forced me to attend various out-of-school classes; almost every night when I finish my school works, she will sit beside me to ensure I try my best at every school work, and download practice tests from the internet and demanded me to finish more complex questions. For four years in Elementary school, my life is …show more content…
Many things changed, my regular life has been capsized by the new world, new environment, and new language. My mother was always behind me but I wasn't being a grateful child because of the sudden change. In grade 7 and 8, I wasn't trying to participate in any school-related objects, I devastated my mark and dropped to record low-level. Jing Mei in the other hand was also being forced by her mother to learn to play piano and completely humiliated herself and her family after her performance. My mother was shocked by my mark and started to return to the traditional Chinese parent guidelines to put me back on track again. I have not appreciated for any of the change my mother brought to me. “Why have you brought me here?” I once ask her. “Canada is better than China, you will have a lot more opportunity and interest in Canada” I never understand what my mother told me until I reach high school, which I found myself very enjoyable discovering new subjects and