Jing-Mei Woo 'June'
In this chapter, June talks about her mother's expectations. She thought that she wasn't good enough for her mother. Her mother, Suyuan, wanted to make her a 'prodigy'. One day while watching The Ed Sullivan Show, Suyuan saw a young girl playing the piano. It said, "She seemed entranced by the music, a little frenzied piano piece with this mesmerizing quality, sory of quick passages and then teasing lilting ones before it returned to the quick playful parts," (135). Suyuan then made June take piano lessons from their neighbor Mr. Chong. June soon finds out that Mr. Chong is deaf and that she can get away with playing the wrong notes and not practice. June then participated in a talent show. When she went to play the piano, she was very unprepared, but felt confident.The performance was a complete disaster and Suyuan insisted that she continue with her lessons. June argued and said that she wished she were dead like her two sisters. Suyuan stopped asking about the piano until she gave it to June for her thirteenth birthday. After Suyuan died, June had the piano tuned. June is displayed as a round character in this chapter because she starts as a child and ends as an adult.
This chapter shows that sometimes, we have to do things to make others happy.
No comments:
Post a Comment