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Matthew. Rodriguez
Mr. Romero
English 1302
09/20/2010

1. In “Two Kinds” I believe the young girl or narrator accomplished the freedom to

become what ever she wanted and she attainted the power to choose her own destiny

but at the price of severing her relationship with her mother. In my own eyes I believe

that the narrator’s mother had the best intentions of her daughter and she should have

expected the best from her daughter. But at the same time the narrator’s mother should

have let her daughter choose what she wanted instead of imposing her own thoughts and

formulations upon her daughter. Through theses expectations of greatness the narrator

gains a strong sense of defiance against her mother. Even at a young age the narrator

realizes she would rather be herself and she is proud of who she thus from this point on

the tensions and rebelliousness clash between the young narrator and her mother. After

many failed expectations and test the young narrator finally sees who she is one night

when looking in the mirror and this is the realization that she comes to “I had new

thoughts, willful thoughts, or rather thoughts filled with lots of won’ts. I won’t let her

change me, I promised myself. I won’t be what I’m not”. After this event the narrator

goes through her mother’s expectations haft heartily on purpose just to prove to her

mother that she isn’t perfect and she isn’t the daughter who is a genius, actress or skillful

piano player. This all concludes after the narrator’s piano recital which was an awful

display of the narrator piano skills, finally the narrator expects her mother to realize her

daughter will never be perfect in anything she makes her do. But following this event

the narrator is forced to still go along with her piano lessons until one day when she
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Mr. Romero
English 1302
09/20/2010

finally expresses her self against her mother and loses her mother’s hope in her .The

words that finally breaks her mother’s will were “Then I wish I’d never been born! I

wish I were dead! Like them! Subsequently after this the narrator achieves the right in

terms to be her own self albeit the narrator and her mother would never speak about their

argument following her piano recital again. In the end the narrator becomes her own self

but she could have put some kind of effort in to her mother’s aspirations instead of

shunning them.

4. The drive or will to fulfill ones own interest and ambitions can be unwavering and bring

us as a people to conflict with the people in our lives that have a different view of our

goals and desires. At times everybody when they are young has a defiant rebellious

attitude towards the adults and authorities in our lives. Even when I was younger I

gripped with my parents thoughts and rules and I still push their buttons to a certain

extent today. For example a couple of years ago my relationship with my parents was

put to a test just like any other obstacle in life. I can remember giving my father the

silent treatment because I was grounded because of my poor grades at the time. When I

reflect upon this event and other past situations displaying my defiance against my

parents it seems foolish to a certain extent. Because when your young and reckless in my

own opinion the only real way a young kid is going to learn some thing in life is to just

let them go through with it and learn whatever happens to them be it good or bad. As a

consequence we as people either learn to solve our problems through our actions or our
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Mr. Romero
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parents drill us with their over baring wisdom and concern. In reality our parents ground

us or punish us not because they want to but because we need to be disciplined for our

own good. Further more if we can just stop being hard headed and stubborn we can learn

a lot from the people we believe to be oppressing us if we can just listen to them and

take into account their own intentions. Ultimately I believe that a person’s independence

from their parents can be attained not by force or conflict like the narrator in “Two

Kinds” but with work we can attain greater a relationship and insight by just listening to

what our parents have to tell us.