Amy Tan's Acquisition Of Their Children Character Analysis

Martone is the author well known for his fiction story ‘The Scribner Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction. In this story Martone has brought about the theme of talent nurturing and used different families to demonstrate how parents natures their children’s talents. The narrator, Amy Tan, has been used by the author to show how parents dictate what the child shall be. The mother of the narrator has been watching television and seeing how young people have obtained fame and she forces her daughter to obtain hers also. The mother tries acting where the narrator is finally defeated for the mother has just forced her. Secondly, she works the housecleaning job in exchange to the piano lessons. In this case, the narrator piano teacher is a deaf. In that essence, she is not able to get the correct piano playing skills due to the uncorrected mistakes.
In this, Martone tried to bring the reader in to the light and show how the parents contribute to the failing of their children. The author, showed how comparison of the children is wrong. He showed the reader the assumption that the parents have to the nurturing of their children. Many parents do not understand that talents differ from one child to the other. In addition, the author demonstrated that the interests of children differ. As he tried to compare Tan to her friend Jong who has gained her fame as the littlest champion due to her talent in chess. This comparison of children does not motivate but just demotivates them. This was well shown to the reader by the author trying to prepare the young parents and sharpen the nurturing of their