Why Be A Prodigy

In the story Two Kinds, the mother wants the daughter to excel because she had lost everything in China, family and money. She took Jing-mei to America and wished she can raised her into a successful kid to raise money and have a better quality of life. She wanted Jing-mei to succeed in her life because she didn't for herself. Jing-mei's mother is in some degrees living through Jing-mei and trying to get everything she didn't get when she was a young child herself. Jing-mei wanted to succeed and be a prodigy just like her mother asked her because she wanted to impress her mother. Kids usually don't know what's the right thing to do but know what to do to please their parents. In this case Jing-mei wants to exel for her mother. Parents tend to push children hard because they know if you don't work hard you wouldn't succeed. I think strict is reasonable but if parents just keep ranting on about the same thing it would be quite annoying. Although I understand that by scolding us, we would do better but by repeating the same thing, there's not much improvement because we know what they'r trying to express, It's not that we don't understand or didn't hear. I try to resist but still follow the instructions. I follow the instructions because deep down in my heart I know the juice is worth the squeeze and that studying hard would get me a better quality of life but also because I want them to stop talking.