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- Exposition
- Okay Mom.
- You need to be a prodigy just like Shirley Temple.
- Conflict
- You need to focus on your tests!!
- Rising Action
- Jing-Mei is watching Shirley Temple with her mother so Jing-Mei could become a prodigy just like Shirley Temple. Then her mother takes her to beauty training school where they had messed up her hair. After messing up her hair they had to cut her hair shorter and the instructor had said she had looked like Peter Pan which was very popular. Jing-Mei with her new haircut thought she could be a prodigy like her mother wanted her to be and she saw many different images of herself like a ballerina, the Christ child and more.
- Climax
- Well then I wish i wasn't your daughter!!!
- Only obedient daughter can live in my house!!!
- Jing-Mei´s mother wants Jing-Mei to be a prodigy but Jing-Mei doesn't want to be all that she just wants to be her. Jing-Mei says shes unable to be a prodigy like her mother because shes not a genius and that she cant accomplish everything her mother wants from her. Jing-Mei doesn't think shes good enough because her mother is always seeming disappointed and then she saw her prodigy side of her but she told herself that she was not going to be someone that someone else wanted to be and shes not going to be what she doesn't want to be. After realizing this she stopped caring about the tests realizing shes not going to be someone her mother wants her to be.
- Falling Action
- Are you sure you and dad wont miss the piano?
- Its Always your piano, only you can play it.
- Jing-Mei´s mother and her piano teacher Mr.Chong or Old Chong had worked together so that Jing-Mei could play in a talent show that was in a church hall. Jing-Mei was going to play a piece called ¨Pleading Child¨ which was simple but still Jing-Mei had not memorize all of the piece so she had to keep looking at the bars to memorize it. When Jing-Mei started playing had kept playing the wrong note over and over again hoping her fingers would just adjust to the piece and start playing the right notes. When Jing-Mei stood up she was beyond nervous and Old Chong was the only one cheering. She had seen someone say that the performance was awful and she had seen her mothers shocked face. After the recital Jing-Mei´s cousin had said she wasn't as talented as her and Jing-Mei´s mother had a devastated face . When they got home her mother didn't yell she was just dissapointed and in shock.
- resolution
- These are two halves of the same song
- After Jing-Mei´s humiliating performance at the talent show she had thought she didn't ;have to play the piano but when Jing-Mei was watching TV her mother had said ¨Four Clock¨ like it was any regular day and like nothing happened. Jing-Mei didn't listen though and then her mother told her a couple minutes later to turn off the TV. Then Jing-Mei realized, she wasn't going to do whatever her mother wanted her to do, she wasn't going to go to piano practice anymore. Her mother again said ¨Four Clock¨ where Jing-Mei said she wasn't going to play anymore saying what was the point if shes not a genius. Her mother was getting really mad and Jing-Mei shouted no again and then her mother pulled her arm pulling her towards the piano then Jing-Mei said she wasn't going to be someone shes not and that shell never be the daughter she wants her to be. Then her mother said that there was only two daughters, one who were obedient and those who follow their own mind and only obedient daughters could live in her house. Then Jing-Mei said she wish she wasn't her daughter and wishes she was dead like her previous siblings. That´s what broke her mother, that´s what broke her like a thin leaf and she had looked lifeless.
- A few years had passed and Jing-Mei had felt she had failed her mother many more times like when she couldn't get straight A´s, become class president, not get into a good school and more. They had never talked about the recital disaster or what she had said in that argument about piano practice. Jing-Mei had never asked about why her mothers expectations were so high that it was almost certainly impossible and why she had given up on Jing-Mei most importantly. After the massive argument the lessons had stopped and she never talked about her playing again. For Jing-Mei´s thirtieth birthday her mother surprised her with the piano she used to play on and Jing-Mei saw this as a sign of forgiveness but Jing-Mei was hesitant about receiving the piano. Her mother than told her it was okay, shes the only one who can play it. Jing-Mei wasn't sure because she didn't know if she could still play it but her mother told her that she could pick up fast and that she could be a genius if she chose to, she just didn't try but she did not say it in a mad or sad tone. Jing-Mei was going to take it but she let it stay in her parents living room, seeing it as a trophy she had won back.
- Jing-Mei had sent a tuner over to to reinstate her old piano for the reason that it was so sentimental to her. Jing-Mei´s mother had a few months back so she had put the stuff she had into boxes like her jewelry and sweaters and old Chinese silk dresses. After the piano had been tuned Jing-Mei opened it and tapped on the keys and it sounded better than she had remembered. In the bench she had found the exercise notes and the scales. Jing-Mei opened the Schumann book to the piece ¨The Pleading Child¨ that she had played at the recital. It looked harder than she remembered but when she played it the notes surprisingly came back to her. On the right hand side there was a piece called ¨Perfectly Contented¨which was with a higher melody with the same rhythm and she found it pretty easy. She had played them both for some time then realized they were the same song.
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