Jing Mei In Two Kinds

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(239). The dream of her mother led her to a lot of test and examples from the book “Ripley’s Believe It or Not”, or “Good Housekeeping”, “Reader’s Digest”. The mother keep trying to teach her daughter names of the cities, towns, countries like the wonder boy that she read in the book. After failing many of her mother’s prodigy tests, Jing-mei begins to hate them. One night after another failed test, she adopted “new thoughts, willful thoughts, or rather thoughts filled with lots of won’ts” (240). Jing-me decides that she is not going to let her mother change whom she is, so she stops trying to be a prodigy. She demonstrates her willfulness when she “performed listlessly,” and “pretended to be bored,” when presented with further tests (240). Jing-me’s headstrong attitude continues to stand in the way and keeps her from successfully learning to play the piano. She “was determined not to try, not to be anybody different” that she sabotaged her lessons (242). Jing-me’s attitude also ...

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