Jing Nei's Mother Came To America Characters

Single Character Analysis Jing-nei’s mother was from China, who lost all her family. She came to America and never looked back with regret. There are all kinds of ways for things to get better for her. Jing-nei’s mother believed anyone could be anything they wanted to be in America. She believed you could be a prodigy of any kind. Jing-nei mother was adamant about Jing-nei becoming a prodigy, and become instantly rich and famous (Kirszner, Mandell, 2013) In the story Jing-nei is a nine-year-old girl that was born in America, she is a narrator in the story, she also is a dynamic character that tells of her like as a child growing up. She is a reflective character in the story. Jing-ne’s mother wanted her to be a prodigy. The first prodigy
Then her mother was watching The Ed Sullivan Show on TV one day, her mother was fascinated by the music that she was hearing form the Chinese girl that was playing a piano. Jing-nei was not worried she knew they did not have a piano and they could not afford to buy one. Few days after watching the little girl play on TV, Jing-nei’s mother told her she would be taking piano lessons and piano practice. When her mother told her this, she felt as though she had been sent to hell. Jing-nei ask her mother why she didn’t like her for the way she was? She was not a genius, and she couldn’t play the piano. She told her mother even if she could, she wouldn’t go on TV if they paid her a million dollars Her mother told her she wanted her to be her best (Kirszner, Mandell,
But they fought over her playing the piano. Jing-nei said mean things to her that hurt her. Her mother said there were “only two kinds of daughters the ones that are obedient, and those who followed their own mind”. She told her only obedient daughter live in this house. She told her mother she wished she was not her daughter. Her mother was very angary seeing this she told her mother she wished she was dead like them. Hearing this her mother was hurt and left the room. After this she never played the piano again. They never talked about the recital or her terrible accusation afterwards at the piano bench. She never found away to ask her why she had hoped for something so large that failure was inevitable (Kirszner, Mandell,