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Plot Chart by:
-Nikki Mandakovic
-Wade Birkenbach
-Brittany Blankenship
Title: Two Kinds
By: Amy Tan
Climax
Climax:
Jing-Mei and her mother have a big argument one day after the talent show failure because her mother told her to go to the piano classes after the failure. Jing-Mei tells her mother, "Then I wish I wasn't your daughter, I wish you weren't my mother." and "I wish I'd never been born. I wish I was dead like them." (referring to the babies her mother lost in China) Her mother gave up on Jing-Mei after she said that
Rising Action #2:
Falling Action
Jing-Mei signs up for the talent show to play piano. She performs terribly at the talent show, disappointing and embarassing her mother. This happened due to her lack of effort during her lessons with Old Chong.
Falling Action:
Her mother gave up on Jing-Mei. Jing-Mei didn't get straight A's and didn't do well in school. She dropped out of college and grew away from her family. She always starting falling below expectations and was ok with it. She didn't have anyone to push her to be great.
Rising Action
Turning Point:
Resolution:
Mother was talking to Auntie Lindo, bragging about how Jing-Mei was a musical prodigy and Jing-Mei didn't feel that way. Jing-Mei felt that it was time to end her mothers foolish pride.
On her 30th birthday, her mother and father gave her the old piano she used to play. Jing-Mei took it as a sign of forgiveness. After her mother passed away, she played the piano again and noticed she had the musical talent her mother said she did. She also noticed the two pieces she played in the talent show were two halves of the same song. This relates back to how their can be two kinds of the same daughter.
Rising Action #1:
She saw the Ed Sullivan show with the girl playing piano. Her mother then decided Jing-Mei should be enrolled to start playing the piano and start taking classes with Old Chong. When Jing-Mei heard this she got in a fight with her mother. Jing-Mei was slapped and thrown around.
Conflict
Resolution
Inciting Force
Protagonist: Jing-Mei
Antagonist: Mother
Type: External Conflict
Man vs Man
When she looks in the mirror and she notices that her mother sees her in a different way than she sees herself. She decides to make a change and try to live life the way she wants too.
Setting: Chinatown (In San Francisco)
Situation: Mother wants Jing-Mei to be successful. Her mother wanted Jing-Mei to have what her other 2 children that passed away in China couldn't have. Her mother tried her best to find her talent that she could excel at in life to become a prodigy.
Characters: Jing-Mei, Mother, Father, Old Chong, Waverly, and Auntie Lindo
Exposition
Theme:
You can always achieve more than you think you can, if you put in a good effort. At the end of the story she realized she had a natural talent. She realized that if she tried harder earlier, then she could've had that ability earlier in life.