"Two Kinds"--taken from the book "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan--is a story about a mother who always has a wish that Jing-Mei, her nine-year-old daughter, would become a prodigy. Coming to America with only two bare hands left after losing everything in China, Jing-Mei's mother doesn't hesitate to start the life all over again by cleaning people's houses. Moreover, she never feels regretful when looking back at the past because there always …showed first 75 words of 3507 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3507 total…understood her mother's traditional wish to become "an obedient girl" and continued her own piano lessons, or if Jing-Mei's mother had not pushed her daughter's young mind over the limits to develop whatever her talent, it would not take Jing-Mei more than twenty years to realize that she could have been a piano prodigy. But no matter how we look at them and analyze their shared characteristics, they both deserve our compassion, understanding and sympathy