"Two Kinds" - Personal Readers Response

Connections between the main character Jing Mei...

※ Jing Mei's mom personally wanted her daughter Jing Mei to be a prodigy, in playing piano. My mom, didn't exactly wanted me to be a prodigy in playing piano, but she did want me to become a prodigy in many things, such as studying. I especially didn't enjoy this part, it was a very hard thing for me to accomplish. It takes real responsibility to accomplish such thing.


※ Jing Mei became lazy as when he kept on playing the piano. I too, eventually became lazy in playing the piano, when I was taught by the teacher in a musical hagwon, I became too lazy in practicing the piano, since the piano was kind of difficult for me. Eventually, I turned to a different instrument, a guitar. I liked this instrument better.



※ When Jing Mei had a really good playing music teacher, I too had a very great music teacher, he was able to play many instruments, not including guitar, which my teacher taught me how to play. I was very amazed at how he could play so many instruments. It seemed as if he and his guitar were one united body.



※ My next connection is when Jing Mei once too went to America during her life time and lived there. I too, went to America, but in to a different state, Texas. I had faced a different life there than I had in Korea. First of all, the language I used was way different, Korean to English. Also, the people I would hang out changed. There were some Koreans, but many parents wanted the Korean kids to hang out more with the Americans so that we could learn our English more.



※ Jing Mei in this story fights with her mother about the success she needs to accomplish and the idea that she needs to obey what her mother tells her. I too, had a fight with my mother, but it wasn't really about obeying, but rather about the success. I couldn't get good grades all the time, and we did have moments where our thoughts clashed.


※ Jing Mei and her mother did fight, but eventually got over the problem and they forgave each other. This moment, I had as well. As I said earlier, I did make fights with my mother, and eventually we both were up to saying sorry to each other.



Personal Perspective About The Story: A Paragraph

- I think this story is basically a very interesting story for me. Honestly, I couldn't get the exposition of the story because of the vocabulary and other stuffs going on during the reading. But eventually, at the end, I was able to get the main idea and the detail of the story and found out that the story was an happy ending. I really enjoyed how this story went on, Jing Mei trying to become better in piano as her mother told her to be a prodigy, Jing Mei eventually giving up, the daughter and the mother ending up in a big major fight, eventually forgiving each other. Again, I really liked the story because it described the ideas and the events very clearly with many details. The theme my group thought of also gave a good realization for me as well.