Two Kinds by Amy Tan

 Today in class, we read half an excerpt from the book Joy Luck Club. Between every paragraph, we discussed a question related to that part of the story, and then took turns reading it together. The story was about a girl born in America (Chinese american), and her mother who had immigrated to the United States (Chinese immigrant). The mother had high expectations for her daughter to be the "best", and the daughter who is unable to meet these high expectations is eventually broken down. The daughter then decides she wants to be her own person and not who her mother wants her to be. She begins to not care what her mother says and just lets her "bellow" without care. Eventually, the mother begins to care less before she sees a girl on TV who looks like her daughter playing the piano.  The mother creates a schedule for her daughter to learn the piano, we left off with the mother and daughter in a fight the mother calling her "ungrateful". I thought the story was interesting and I enjoyed reading it as a class. I feel we as a class could have done better with participation and talking more.