Category: Two Kinds

Introduction The author Amy Tan uses the topic Two Kinds to demonstrate that the child can either follow the parents expectations by living the dream of their parents or still following their own path and becoming unique. Parents start thinking and imagining about their children’s expectations from the moment they found out about the sex…

Migration does not only imply migrating from one country to another, but postulates the existence of harsh realities such as the fear of acceptance, conflicting cultural differences, and most importantly the struggle with identity, that tag along. The short story Two Kinds by American writer Amy Tan and the short novel Home Fire by Pakistani-British…

These days, children seek for acceptance for who they truly are from their parents, who believe they can be something else. Sigmund Freud, a neurologist who discovered the psychoanalytic lens, believes there are three parts of the brain; the id, ego and superego. In the short story, Two Kinds, by Amy Tan, a young child…

Many kids today want to become successful in life either doing what they love or doing what they have to do to be successful with or without support. In Two Kinds and Rules of The Game by Amy Tan, both the main characters Jing-mei and Waverly have the same nationality and somewhat the same age.…