Question

essay analyzing a theme in "Two Kinds." Make an argument that conflict is the major theme of the short story using key examples as support.

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Answer 1

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Answer 2

Amy Tan, Joy Luck Club?
The story focuses on two themes: the American Dream and the tension between mothers and daughters. Like many immigrants, Mrs. Woo believes in America's promise: With hard work and a little luck, Jing-mei can be anything that she chooses to be. Jing-mei will not have to undergo any of her mother's hardships — the terror and privations of war, the tragedy of losing children, and the difficulties of settling in a new culture. Jing-mei has no desire to cooperate with her mother. On the contrary, she fights her every step of the way.
It is only after her mother's death that Jing-mei begins to realize what her mother had wanted for her. She looks back over the music that she formerly shunned and discovers something that she hadn't noticed before. The song on the left-hand side of the page is called "Pleading Child"; the one on the right, "Perfectly Contented." Suddenly, Jing-mei realizes that the two titles are two halves of the same song. This realization brings together the theme of the tension between mothers and daughters. The mothers and daughters in this book are separated by many factors — age, experience, ambition, and culture. The "pleading child" cannot be "perfectly contented" because she cannot resolve her difficulties with her mother — and herself.
This book explores the various ways that mothers and daughters relate to each other as the daughters are struggling to forge their own place in the world.

Answer 3

So it's the conflict between Jing-mei and her mother, the conflict between America and China, but more than that. A conflict within Jing-mei, a conflict within her mother, and a conflict within every mother and daughter.