Two Kinds Questions

1) What is a prodigy and why does the mother want the main character to become one?

A prodigy is like a person who is taught by someone higher than them and learns their ways. The mother wants her child to be famous because she lost everything.

2) How does the mother prepare her daughter for fame?

She gives her test and lessons.

3) What talents does the girl have?

She can play the piano and make people feel bad.

4) Why does she start the piano lessons and how is the mother going to pay for them?

She wants her child to become famous and she pays for by cleaning Mr. Chong's house.

5) Describe the piano teacher.

Mr. Chong was deaf and he look ancient. He was almost bald with nearly no hair. He had thick glasses and a sleepy eye. He lived with his mother and was not married.

6) What do Auntie Lindo and Jing-Mei's mother have in common?

They both like to brag about their kids and they think that their children are prodigies.

7) In your own words, relate the events of the recital.


Jing Mei was confident about playing and was nervous once she messed up. She never really tried or practiced.

8) What does the author mean when she says, "I didn't have to do what my mother said anymore... This wasn't China"? page 97.
I think that this meant that she finally could stand up 2 her mother.

9) What words does the author use to describe her mother's disappointment in her?

10) Why does Jing-mei come back to play the piano after her mother's death?

Dalai Lama Quote

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion". I think that this quote means that if you practice compassion, your life will be a lot easier. If you show more compassion then people will be nicer to you and appriciate you more. People will start to act different around you. You will also feel better yourself because you have done a good deed. Showing and practicing compassion will help you a lot in your life and it will me you feel better and you will look better when your around people.

I agree and disagree about this quote. This quote can be good because you will feel happy when showing compassion. But showing to much compassion might lead to you being pushed around. people might start taking your kindness for granted. This will not happen all the time but also depends on what type of people are around you.

Everytime I do a good deed or show compassion, i feel better. But i show a little to much compassion some times. People start to take me for granted and ask me for things. They do this just because i am nice to them one time and they think they will get what they want from me. Thats just taking me for granted and that isnt good.

"Marigold" Question

• Why does Lizabeth destroy Miss Lottie's flowers?
• How does the climax of the story begin a rite of passage from childhood to the beginning of womanhood?
• Why does Miss Lottie never plant marigolds again, despite Lizebeth's remorse?

Answers

1) She destroys Ms. Lottie's flowers because she is to young to see the beauty and meaning behind them. She also has a temper tantrum because she has kept her feelings inside of her bottled up. After seeing her big strong father cry she was confused and angry and took her anger out on Ms. Lottie's beautiful flowers.

2) In the beginning she was a child because she would do childish things with her friends and brothers. She would throw rocks at Ms. Lottie's flowers and she thought Ms. Lottie's flowers were to beautiful for Ms. Lottie's broken down home and retard son. Later on, after she has done her last childish act she realizes what she has done and that it was wrong and childish.

3) Ms. Lottie never plants marigolds again because she was sad and mad at what Lizabeth did and it broke her heart. The flowers were the reason that she kept living her life and it showed her life threw the flowers. All her strength was in her flowers and when the flowers were gone she had no reason to go on.