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- Exposition
- "Of course you can be prodigy, too. You can be best anything."
- Conflict
- Rising Action
- "I wont let her change me, I promised myself. I wont be what im not."
- Jing-Mei's mother lost everything in the war and believes in the american dream. After her mother saw Shirley Temple on TV, she wanted her daughter Jing-Mei to be a child prodigy just like Shirley Temple. Jing-Mei's mother had the idea to take her to beauty training school.
- Climax
- Jing-Mei's experience in beauty training school was fun at first. She was looking forward to her fame, being a ballerina, and cinderella. She liked trying different images, trying different costumes. Jing-Mei, thought she could be perfect. Her mom would frequently make her take tests that she slowly started to hate the tests and the raised hopes and failed expectations.
- Falling Action
- One night, she looked in the mirror, she started to cry. She couldn't recognize herself, she couldn't believe the girl in the mirror and herself were the same. She felt sadness and anger towards her mother. She made herself a promise that she wont be who she isnt.
- Resolution
- Jing-Mei decided she didnt want to listen to her mother anymore. She confronted her mother and told her she didnt want to play or do anything. Her mother yanked her to the piano. Her mother was furious yelling there was only two kinds of daughters, obedient, and those who follow their own mind. Jing-Mei had enough and started shouting back saying she wish she wasnt her daught and how she wishes she were dead like them. Her mother was left speechless.
- Years later, Jing-Mei still dissapointed her mother, not getting into Stanford, bad grades, didnt become class president, and she dropped out of college. Her mother completely lost hope in Jing-Mei, she stopped piano lessons.
- For her 30th birthday, her mother gave her a piano and her mother was certain she could still play the piano. Her mother wasnt angry or sad at Jing-Mei. Months later her mother died and decided to play the piano and realized that "Perfect Content" and "Pleading Child" were two halves of the same song.
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