1. when Jing-mei's mother presented her tests, Jing-mei performed listlessly, her head propped on one arm. At last she was beginning to give up hope. Jing-mei soon found out why Old Chong had retired from teaching piano. He was deaf.
2. Setting
2.1. Place
2.1.1. America
2.1.1.1. San Francisco
2.1.1.2. Beauty training school
2.2. Time
2.2.1. 1960s
2.3. Mood or atmosphere
2.3.1. excited
3. Plot
3.1. Including introduction
3.1.1. The main character of the story is Jing-mei. Her mother want she to be a prodigy. At the beginning Jing-mei was excited about this idea. But Jing-mei tires of her mother's insistence on test Jing-mei every night cause the conflict arises.
3.2. Rising action
3.3. Climax
3.3.1. Jing-mei decided, she didn't has to do what her mother said anymore. Jing-mei wasn't her mother slave. Her mother shouted in Chinese."Only two kinds of daughters," Only Obedient daughter can live in this house. Jing-mei shouted "Then I wish I weren't your daughter, I wish you weren't my mother,"
3.4. Falling action and resolution
3.4.1. A few years ago Jing-mei's mother offered to give Jing-mei the piano, for her thirtieth birthday."You pick up fast," Jing-mei's mother said, as if she knew this was certain. "You have natural talent. You could be a genius if you want to. You just not trying," Jing-mei's mother said it as if announcing a fact that could never be disproved.
3.5. Resolution
3.5.1. And after that, every time Jing-mei saw it in her parents' living room, standing in front of the bay window, it made Jing-mei feel proud, as if it were a shiny trophy that she had won back.
4. Conflict
4.1. Human VS. Human
4.1.1. Jing-mei VS. Her mother
5. Characters
5.1. Social Conditions
5.2. Persons
5.2.1. Auntie Lindo
5.2.2. Ji-mei
5.2.3. Ji-mei's mother
5.2.4. Old lady chong
5.2.5. Uncle Tin
5.2.6. Waverly
5.2.7. Waverly's two older brothers
5.3. Characterization
5.3.1. Jing-Mei's mother is a Chinese immigrant with want Jing-mei be a prodigy.
5.4. Types
5.4.1. types
6. Theme
6.1. Because Jing Mei's mother lived an extremely difficult life in China, she doesn't want her daughter to be like her.
6.1.1. She pressures Jing Mei to excel in America where it is much easier for a girl to be successful.
6.1.1.1. But Jing-mei has own ideas. She doesn't want to be a obedient daughters.