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Jing-mei Woo - Two Kinds
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Jing-mei - The Prodigy ?
Child Genius ?
Riley's Believe It or Not, Good Housekeeping, Reader's Digest
Piano lessons
These were all magazines the Jing-mei's mother used to find a prodigy that Jing-mei could excel in.
Jing-mei's mother believed anyone an be anything they want.
So she tried to make Jing-mei a prodigy.
- Chinese Shirley Temple
- Got a hair cut = came out bad
- Then got a Peter Pan hair cut
- Didn't work
- Mr. Chong was deaf
- Jing-mei found out and stayed with his rhythm so that she didn't have to really play as long as she pressed a key.
- She picked up the basics, but didn't try any harder than that - as she states > she never gave herself a real chance and could've been good at it.
- Jing-mei heard her mother brag to Anutie Lindo about her talent that she did not posses and didn't want her to stop having too much pride.
- Knowing all capitals everywhere = fail
- Memorizing a full page = fail
- Predicting the weather = fail
Jing-mei felt as a failure and if she became a prodigy her mother and father would be proud of her.
Piano
Talent Show
Jing-mei's mother slowly stop and two- three months went by without any tests.
One day she watched The Ed Sullivan Show and saw a nine year old chinese girl that had the same hair cut as Jing-mei playing the piano.
Three days later her mother talked to Mr.Chong and traded cleaning for lessons for Jing-mei.
- Jing-mei complained and was angry that her mother didn't except her
- But did the lessons reguardless
Jing-mei's mother and Mr.Chong came up with putting her in the talent show
- She played "Pleading Child"
- It started off amazing = then ended terribly
- Her mother was disappointed
- Waverly, Aunite Lindo's daughter, bragged and said "You aren't a genius like me,"
- It hurt her mothers pride
The Piano
Jing-mei sent a tuner to her parents house, and about a week later she went back and started to put away her mothers things and came across silk dresses of her mothers that she decided to take home with her.
When she reached the piano she started playing "Pleading Child" and then played "Perfectly Contented" and realized they are two halves of the same song.
Jing-mei hated the piano after she had failed during the talent show.
Her mother told her to play and Jing-mei denied her and in the argument Jing-mei said, " I wish I were dead! Like them."
The comment hurt Jing-mei's mother so much she just left and didn't say a word.
- After her mothers death she remember how her mother gave the piano to her when she turned 13 and she was proud, but it made her realize how much she had disappointed and failed her mother over the years.