![]() So I could be generous in my comments when my mother bad-mouthed the little girl on TV."Play note right, but doesn't sound good! No singing sound," complained my mother."What are you picking on her for?" I said carelessly. Our family had no piano and we couldn't afford to buy one, let alone reams of sheet music and piano lessons. And she also did this fancy sweep of a curtsy, so that the fluffy skirt of her white dress cascaded slowly to the floor like petals of a large carnation.In spite of these warning signs, I wasn't worried. She was proudly modest like a proper Chinese child. The girl had the sauciness of a Shirley Temple. It was being pounded out by a little Chinese girl, about nine years old, with a Peter Pan haircut. "Look here."Let's Check InWhat do you think the narrator is foreshadowing?I could see why my mother was fascinated by the music. "Ni kan," my mother said, calling me over with hurried hand gestures. Read the excerpt below from "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan and answer the question that follows. At first, the narrator feels a(n) _ motivation to become a prodigy to earn her parent's _. ![]() I would never feel the need to sulk for anything. In all of my imaginings, I was filled with a sense that I would soon become perfect. I was Cinderella stepping from her pumpkin carriage with sparkly cartoon music filling the air. I was like the Christ child lifted out of the straw manger, crying with holy indignity. I was a dainty ballerina girl standing by the curtain, waiting to hear the right music that would send me floating on my tiptoes. I pictured this prodigy part of me as many different images, trying each one on for size. In fact, in the beginning, I was just as excited as my mother, maybe even more so. ![]() I was Cinderella stepping from her pumpkin carriage with sparkly cartoon music filling the air.In all of my imaginings, I was filled with a sense that I would soon become perfect. ![]() Read the excerpt below from "Two Kinds" by Amy Tan and complete the statement that follows. ![]()
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