Rise and Fall of an Inner Prodigy An “angry and powerful” girl glares back at Jing-Mei in the bathroom mirror (Tan 1066). The girl is her newly discovered prodigy: a force that comes from within that could potentially empower her to unlimited heights of personal growth and success. Unfortunately, Jing-Mei, the daughter in Amy Tan’s “Two Kinds”, only allows her will to manifest into a weapon of “won’ts” to lash out at her mother …showed first 75 words of 884 total…

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