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"Two Kinds" Mother & Daughter Conflict

In the conflict between Jing-mei and her mother, Jing-mei has many reasons why she has the right to not listen to her mother any more. If someone’s mother pressures their daughter into doing things that she doesn’t want to do or she can not do, I don’t think that that mother would be a good mother. When Jing-mei’s mother tried to make her into a prodigy, Jing-mei knew that she really was not a prodigy but her mother kept forcing her to try to be one. She would not accept her daughter the ways she is. This shows that Jing-mei’s mother acted like she wanted Jing-mei to be someone else. I think that her mother was full of regret after her two daughters died that they never could be something or someone important. She took out her regret on Jing-mei and tried to make her into something that her daughters might have been. Although the mother was wrong to have forced Jing-mei to do things she did not want to Jing-mei was also wrong to have yelled at her mother for something like practicing the piano. Jing-mei should have communicated to her mother how she felt and never brought up her dead daughters. The mother was trying to be controlling over Jing-mei which I think is wrong. Jing-mei had a right to stop doing what her mother was making her do but she should have communicated better.

"Two Kinds" Summery Poem

My name is Jing-mei.
My mother is from China.
She has two dead daughters.
She never talks to me about her babies so she never sheds tears over them.

My mother is such a strong-willed person.
She wishes I was a prodigy.
She wishes me to be a genius
She wants me to be like Shirley Temple.
To practice shaking my curls if I had any and making my O’s

She took me to a beauty college to get my hair cut just like her.
It looked frizzy and she told me I was like a Negro Chinese
I had to get it cut like a Peder Pan hair cut.
I look like a boy

My mother cleans houses and likes to find magazines.
When she finds one about a child prodigy she like to quiz me to she if i have their talent.
She is filled with misery when she realized I can’t do what she asks.
She makes it her capital duty do make me a prodigy that I am not.

She watches TV and sees a girl with a Peder Pan hair cut who plays the piano.
She asks Mr.Chong to give me piano lessons.
He lives in my apartment building.
He is a deaf man who teaches me the keys and notes.
When I sit on the bench and try to play there are many mistakes.
But he can not hear them.

My mother makes me a schedule to practice for two hours a day
But I do not want to
Her friend brags about her daughter Waverly’s trophies.
My mother brags back about my music
But I have no talent

She wants me to be in a talent show to prove my talent.
She makes me memorize a song called “Pleading Child”
When I practice I do not really practice
On stage I sit down and play but no beautiful music comes out
It is only terrible music with many mistakes
The audience does not clap when I finish
I have showed my mother betrayal.

We get home and my mother is disappointed.
She doesn't make me play the piano for two days
I refuse and yell
She yells back saying she only wished for me to do my best.
I say I wish I was never born
She is hurt and doesn't talk to me for a while

My mother does not talk about playing the piano anymore
Years later my mother asks me if I would like the piano in our living room
I say no but still but am grateful she offered
my mother dies later and I take some of her belongings for sentimental reasons
I want to remember her
I am a rebel that my mother did not want me to be
that is how I am a prodigy.

Favorite Character Interview

What is your name?
Samantha A.

What is your favorite character in a a movie or book?
Christina Yang

Describe your character in one word.
Real

What is the characters motivations?
Her motivation in the show and at work is her love for surgery.

Describe the characters appearance.
She is a short Asian woman who always wears scrubs and is thin.

Name a few actions that the character preforms.
She always loves to preform surgeries. Also she is constantly breaking up with her boyfriend Owen and then making back up with him.

What does the character think about?
She is constantly thinking about surgeries and how she can be a part of one.

What does the character say?
She likes to say the word “seriously”

Why do you like this character?
I like this character because she is very honest, loyal, and determined.

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“Two Kinds” In the Shoes of a Prodigy

If I were born a prodigy I would be happy because I would have a natural talent that some people can't do or aren't as good as me, i think that if I were not a prodigy though and I had to go through what Jing-me I had to go through with my family pressuring me to do something I couldn't do what they wanted me to do I would get mad at myself at first and then I would be mad at them for making me continue to do something that I can't do. Although I would not tell them that I was angry because I don’t believe that kids should disrespect their parents like what she did. If they saved their money just to buy me a piano I would be grateful that they spent that long just saving their money for me to do something good that I know I could have done. If Jing-mei would have just focused on trying hard for her parents then I think she would have realized that she could do good playing the piano. In my family you are supposed to do what your parents say, but sometimes after so long of parents trying to make their kids do something they can't do or don't want to do, they should have the right to tell them what they think and how it makes them feel. I believe that if she would have just told her mother more nicely then her mother would not have made her continue. I know that I would like to be a prodigy only if I really was one and not pressured into being one.

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"Two Kinds" "The Orange Jacket"

Today would be a good example for when someone expected me to do something I really didn't want to do. Today after school we all went to shop-till-you-drop and Joan, the head person for Friends of San Pasqual, stopped me and told me that she had something for me. She told me to follow her and so I did. I thought it was going to be something really cute or something that no one else had. She went up to a rack and pulled out a bright orange leather jacket that had ruffles all over it. She said, "when I saw this I thought of you, and thought you would like it. It is really expensive and is worth 600 dollars!" I didn't like it becuase it was too bright and the ruffles were ugly. She wanted me to try it on, so I did and I thought it was so ugly on me. I did want to mean and reject it so I tryed to tell her that it was a little too bright but she wouldn't get the hint. She expected me to take it. So I took it and felt really bad becuase I don't want to give it away becuase I thing it would hurt her feelings, but I don't want to wear it becuase its not cute. I don't know what Im going to do with it.

Acrostic Poem for Me

Responsible
- I always try to do my homework and stay focused in school. I try really hard to get good grades.
Energetic
- I love to be active and I am always in sports and have a ton of energy when doing things that I love.
Brave
- I have done many things in my life where I have to be brave. Just to be a foster kid you have to be brave.

Encouraging
- I try to always encourage people when they are doing something that they like. Like when I am watching someone in a sport during a game I always cheer them on.

Kind
- I think I am a nice person and I try to never be mean to people even when I don’t get along with them.

Ambitious
- When I have something that I love a lot I am usually passionate about it like basketball.

Hopeful
- I always hope for the best when it comes to people I love and care about and also to myself.

Charcter Acrostic Poem for Mama

Mature
- Example: She is older, wise and self confident when she talks about how she can skin a pig in less than a day and have it out to dry. She also knows she is strong and confident.
Affectionate
- Example: She loves he daughters and cares for them a lot. She and her church raised money just to send one of her daughters to college.
Mannerly
- Example: Mama knows when it is time to be proper like how she talks about if she were on the Johnny Carson Show, but that is not how she really is.
Animated
- Example: She is lively because she does anything that a man can do like wrestle a pig and skin an ox without any mercy. She is hard working and full of life.

OAATS Analysis of Peer

Amy is my best friend and she is extremely generous and caring. She is always thinking about other people and doing things for them. She always tries to help someone when they need help. Sometimes it backfires on her when she tries to help people because she is constantly trying to help people sometime even when they need it but don't want it. She is always worrying about people who she really cares about and loves but tries not to make it super obvious. She is a great person to talk to and is someone you can trust. She is also really outgoing. She sometimes is hyper which makes her super funny and sometimes a little crazy. Also she will sometimes yell out randomly in class which is also funny. Amy gets along with a lot of people and is easy to talk to. That is why she is my best friend.

Prompt A: Me and Dee

I think that I can compare myself to Dee. Somethings that me a Dee have in common is that she is more confident when she is speaking then her sister and so am I. She likes to have style and so do I. If Ihad a lot of money I would buy all the cute clothes in the world. We are similar in our personality but also there are differeces like if there was a house buring down I would not stand and watch my house burn down I would try to help at least get my family out. I think she is selfish in a way and I don't think i am a selfish person.

“’Everyday Use’ from Dee’s Point of View”

My name is Dee, I was named after my aunt. I really don't like the way our house looks that we live in. I don't live there anymore though, because I went off to college that my mom and my church paid for. My family is my mom and my sister named Maggie. Maggie is smaller then me and is scared. Her scars are on her legs and arms from a fire that happened in our house a while back. Our house is really ugly and is worn down. I don't like the way it looks. Today I am going back to the house to visit them. I am going to bring my good friend named Asalamalakim, but he likes people to call him Hakim da Barbar. he is really funny and I think he will like my little sister. My sister is a little crazy but I love her to death. Every time we take a picture she likes to have the house in the background. I wish she didn't like the house so much. When we go to visit my mom today I am going to ask her if i can have the lid to the butter churner. I can't wait to go see them.

“Everyday Use” Before You Read: Traditions and Heirlooms.

The thing that I hope to pass down from me to the next generation in my family is recipes. My mom taught me some recipes that my grandma taught her so I think I can pass them down to my kids. It would be good if they knew how to cook something’s. My grandma also gave me a small little Mexican doll that is wearing a really colorful dress. I would like to pass it down maybe to my kids. The doll is really cute with dark brown braids down over her shoulders. It one of the cutest dolls I've ever seen. I hope that the generations down from me will still pass those things on.

Character

Character is a person who portrays traits and personality in a story from literature. They show distinctive traits and mannerisms. The character in a story has to undergo a conflict and in most ways change sometime during the plot of the story. The character of Leonard Mead is of a man who is quiet and alone. He thinks differently from the other people of his time. In the time in which Leonard Mead lives in he is not considered typical because of his differences in society. When Leonard takes walks during the night it shows that he does not have the same character qualities as the rest of his futurist society. It shows that he is not materialistic and wants more to have in his life. He had more character traits then the rest of the people in his society.

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My Memories of 9/11

The day 9/11 came around I remember that it was a normal day for me. It was a Tuesday when the World Trade Center was hit. I was a t school and we herd that something was going on but we didn't know what it was or we didn't even understand it, because I was only six. Some parents came and picked up some of their kids early and I couldn't figure out what could have happened that made everyone look so scared. I remember coming home from school when I lived with my aunt. She had the news on and she looked terrified. I sat down next to her a started to watch it with her. It showed the first tower falling and the second tower with people jumping out from over 100 floors up. It scared me so much that I started crying. When the second tower fell I felt like the whole world was in shock. When I went to school the next day half the kids in my class weren't there. Later, after school we went to the grocery store and i saw a magazine that already had the story on the front cover. The picture was of a lady who had jumped from the 92nd floor and lived. she was all broken and burned. It made me so sad that i started crying. Even though I was little I still remember a lot that happened when the World Trade Towers fell.

My Time at the Circus

There was once a girl named Rose who loved to go to her grandmas house. The time before She had gone to her house her grandma had given her a relic to keep safe from her mother. It was a small hand mirror that had a beautiful frame. In one day Rose would go visit her grandma and she was so excited because her grandma said that she had a special surprise for her this time. When Rose got to her grandma's house she handed her two tickets to the circus! Rose was so excited! When they got to the circus and the show began the lights dimmed and there was a large ballyhoo sounding from nowhere. Then all of a sudden a ton of circus performers came out and started to act extremely zany. They were doing amazing tricks and stunts. Two clowns came out and started to pretend to argue making it look like they were a couple of sticklers, then bopping each other on the heads with fake bats. When the clowns went away blue sparkling lights came on making it look like almost an aquatic scene. Then a spotlight rise up high and shined on a tight rope walker that was on a bicycle. She slowly rode across the rope and in the middle she made it look like she was stuck but then she sped to the other side extremely fast then stood up and everyone applauded. Clowns came out again and decided to pick one person in the aduience to come on stage and they picked Rose! Rose did have a problem though. Rose was scared of clowns and she did not want to go up and preform with them. Her grandma encouraged her to go and when she wouldn't the whole crowd started chanting "Do it, Do it!" Rose grasped the bottom of her chair and slowy pleeled a finger away one by one and slowly stood up to go on stage. She felt like she was being abducted. When she got on stage she sqeuled as the clowns grabbed her arms and sat her down in a chair. Then they pulled out paints from their sleeves and started to paint her face at a very high pace. She closed her eyes the whole time, and when they announced that they were done she slowly opened her eyes and looked around

“Mouse in the Café Short Story”

Once there was a mouse named Alberto. Alberto the mouse had always lived in many different places and always something felt wrong about it, but Alberto had never had a home to live in where found suitable enough to. So Alberto went on an adventure to search for his perfect home. First he tried to look in a grocery store but there were to many people. Then he tried in a movie theater but the movies were to loud. He tried a doughnut shop but the smell of the doughnut fillings gave him a headache, but at least he left with a doughnut. Next he tried a smoothie shop, but the blenders scared him. He tried in a bank, but the bankers found him and stomped at him to scare him away! Also there was a trap and he knew the cheese was fake anyways. Alberto started to give up all hope of finding someplace to live and sat down on a curb to think about all his friends homes and how nice they were. He wished he could have a home like that! His friend Miguel the mouse had a nice home by the shore in an old lighthouse. Alberto thought that it must be nice to live there. Alberto herd a car come sharply around the corner of the curb which made his train of thought leave and he ran as fast as he could to get across the street without getting ran over. He was panting and stood up to breath better, and when he looked up his eyes widened and he got a fuzzy feeling. On the sign of the building in front of him was Café. Alberto had a good feeling about this. He had heard of them before but he never been in one and he heard they were great places to live by his other mouse friends. He sighlenty snuck through a hole in the wall and came apon a warm cozy shop. It smelled like warm coffee, there was not may people, and it was quiet! Finally Alberto the mouse knew he was home!

"Center for Research on Regressive Tendencies"

In the Center for Research on Regressive Tendencies the researchers are both humans and robots. The robots scan his brain's activity and monitor his movements, then the human researches come in and determine weather his is mentally ill or not. They dress in full head and body suits that are all white, and the robots are small machines like the size of tarantulas that crawl on the top of his head and send the signals from his brain to the main computer, which looks like projected images on a large glass table. The room they put Leonard in is a room with a super strong but flexible fiber covering the walls called duraplastic, with one small rusted bed frame and a dusty mattress on top. The walls are covered in carvings with strange symbols from the patients before him. Also there is a medium sized chair with a simple pattern on its surface. There is one small barred window that is extremely high up to the point where no one could reach it. The air in the room is dingy and stuffy, and it is so quite Leonard can hear his own heartbeat. The center feels cold and empty like the street he walked on every night.

Bradbury's Purpose of The Pedestrian"

Bradbury’s purpose of writing “The Pedestrian” could be to warn the people of the future and how technology could effect the people of the future. In the 1950’s televisions had just came out, which made certain people watch it all day. Many people did not come out and socialize. I think his purpose was to prove the effect things can have on people. When the police questioned him for an innocent stroll through the neighborhood they thought that he was insane and not normal because he was not inside watching his television. The technology effected people in Bradburys story by them not socializing and normal things such as a walk would be considered abnormal.

Life in 2053 – “The Pedestrian” Before You Read

Prompt B: America in 2053 would have a lot more technology. I think that we would be able to make robots by then. There would be robots roaming around doing other peoples jobs that no one wants to do and we would have better education systems. The pollution would probably be increased because there will be an increase in the population but we would most likely learn how to control it. Other companies would be rich because of the technology increase but others would fail because most likely their jobs would be taken over by other machines. I think transportation would be different and more fuel efficient. In less then ten years technology increases dramatically, so I think that in 40 years we could have many things that we only think about.