Similarities Between Two Kinds And Tapka

The children in the stories “Two Kinds” and “Tapka” have several similarities. The children share the fact that they are newly arrived immigrants to their respective countries and the alienation this caused. The children had to learn the new language and cultures within these new countries. The children had to learn how to function in such a diverse setting, due to the fact there were so many different types of people coming together at once. In a situation that forced the children to change in ways they had little control of, they shared the way they choose to act out their newly found freedoms. In their new surroundings, they were able to express a small amount of individuality by directly defying their mothers. In “Two Kinds”, Jing Mei