Two Kinds Storyboard
Storyboard Text
- Exposition
- Ni kan, You already know how. Don't need talent for crying!
- Conflict
- Nairobi!
- What is the capital of Finland?
- Rising Action
- Bravo! Bravo! Well done!
- That was awful.
- Well she certainly tried.
- In the begining of the story, Two Kinds by Amy Tan, we are introduced to Jing-Mei, the protagonist, and her mother. Jing-Mei's mother came to San Fransico from China hoping to have a better life. She believes that if Jing-Mei can be a prodigy, they can live out the American dream and to her, it doesn't matter what kind of prodigy she is. Jing-Mei could be an actress like Shirley Temple or she could be knowlagable in a certain subject.
- Climax
- I'll never be the daughter you want me to be!
- Only two kinds of daughters. Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind!
- Jing-Mei's mother began to test her on subjects she saw child prodigys succed in from magazines. The tests would range from multiplying numbers or predicting temperatures in different cities to memorizing as much as possible from the bible in three minutes. It came to the point where Jing-Mei no longer recognizd her reflection in the mirror. She swore to not change who she was for her mother.
- Falling Action
- After seeing a child who looked like Jing-Mei play piano on TV, her mother decided to arrange piano classes in exchange for cleaning a man named Mr. Chong's house. Mr. Chong was deaf and partially blind. When Jing-Mei would play, she could make as many mistakes as possible and he would never realize. After a while playing piano, she is put into a talent show which turns out to be a disater. Since Jing-Mei never practiced properly, the piece she was assigned to play came out terribly.
- Resolution
- After the talent show, Jing-Mei believes that her mother had given up but her mother tells her to go practice piano. They get into a huge argument. Jing-Mei refuses to play and tells her mother that she will never be the type of daughter she wants. Her mother replies that there are only two kinds of daughters; an obidient daughter or one who follows their own mind. Jing-Mei continues to the point where she says she wishes that she would have died like the twins her mom had in China.
- As she grew up, Jing-Mei belived she could not be anything she wanted to be, only herself. She didn't get straight A's, didn't become class president, didn't get into Stanford, and even dropped out of college. After their fight over piano, Jing-Mei's mother seemed to have guiven up on her.
- Jing-Mei is gifted her piano back on her 30'th birthday from her mother and father. Jing-Mei saw this as a sign of forgiveness. After her mother had passed away, Jing-Mei had the piano fixed and played the same song she had failed to play at the recital. She looked to the right of the page and played that piece. She realized that both the pieces Perfectly Contented and Pleading Child were two halves of the same song. It related to how there could be two kinds of the same daughter.
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