Summary of Two Kinds by Amy Tan

Two Kinds

            Amy tan was a shy Chinese American girl who was born in the U.S.A. She wants to become an American girl. Amy Tam and her mother were living in California on Sacramento Street in Chinatown in San Francisco. Her mother moved to San Francisco in 1949 after losing everything in China. Her mother was an ambitious Chinese woman, who wants her daughter to be perfect in everything. But Amy wants to be an independent American girl. This story is all about the conflicts between her and her mother. In the starting, she was mad with her mother because her mother took her in training school for hair cut. She did not like her hairstyle at all. When her mother sent her to Mr. Chong for piano lessons, she did not like it. She was not interested in learning piano. Later as her mother made her to participate in the talent show and Amy disappointed her in front all of her friends. After the talent show she thought that her mother would stop her sending to piano classes. But when her mother tried to send her to the piano classes, she had a huge fight with her mother that changed everything. This was the first time when Amy had ever told anything to her. After that her mother never said anything to her. She let Amy do whatever she wanted. On Amy’s 30^th birthday, her mother offered her piano and Amy accepted it as a sign of forgiveness. After her mother death, we Amy played it and she felt that she enjoyed it.