Amy Tan Summery

           

            Amy Tan is a Chinese American girl; Amy’s mother came to US in 1949. Amy

has a shy and quite personality but her mom wants Amy be a loud and active person.

When Amy’s mother came to US she were living in San Francisco, Sacramento road in a

Chinese town and her job was house keeping. Amy born in US and she always tried to act

like an American girl. Amy’s mother bought a piano for Amy and told her to go to class

and learn how to be professional, but Amy didn’t want to learn piano, she couldn’t tell

her mom for some reason: first she was shy and second she was scare of her mom. When

she started to learn piano it was so hard for her, she couldn’t do anything right when she

told her mother that she can’t play piano her mom got upset of her and yelled at her and

told her you are lazy and you just don’t want try. A talent show was coming and Amy

had to practice and memorize the note, she tried to practice and memorize the note but

every time she couldn’t go over than half. Finally the day for talent show came and Amy

was so stressful. There were some other programs before Amy’s program. After all the

programs get done now it was the time for Amy show. Amy’s parents and many other

parents and children were watching them; Amy’s legs were shaking out of stress. Amy

started to play piano and every body was watching them. Amy was doing well since the

half, and then she starts doing wrong, finally she end it but not well. A day after talent

show when Amy was watching the TV her mom told her to turn off the TV but she didn’t

listen. They got a big argue about her yesterday show and Amy said I hope I was the

baby died and never born. Amy’s mom went calm and silent and they never talked about

playing piano. A few years after when Amy was independent her mom told her the piano

is yours as a birth gift and you can have it, first Amy didn’t accepted but finally she said

okay I’ll take it home but she didn’t play it for a while. Amy stated to play piano a few

time later. She just realized how the notes are coming back to her quickly. She kind of

liked the piano and she saw how easy that was. She wrote a letter for her mom, on that

letter she was saying that she is apologize about what she did and now she is start to

playing the piano but it was to late and her mom was die.

            In conclusion Amy is a Chinese American girl who always wanted to be a

American girl and she had so conflict with her mom. Amy was forced by her mom to be

professional piano player but her never become because she didn’t want to.