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• What is a prodigy and why does the mother want the main character to become one?
• A prodigy is refer to someone that can be succesful in life, Some one that is in some one famous or important. The mother want the main character to become a prodigy because she doesnt want her dauther to be ordinary, she wants her to be famous. "and it would always be this ordinary face-i began to cry". This show as that she didnt wanted to be ordinary she didnt want her mother to be dissapoint.
  
• How does the mother prepare her daughter for fame?
• The mother prepare her daugther for fame by making her watch shirley's old movies as training films and put her in a beauty training school.
  
• What talents does the girl have?
• she learn how to play the piano.
  
• Why does she start the piano lessons and how is the mother going to pay for them?
• She starts the piano lessons because her mother thoug that a girl who she watch playing piano on TV, She was facinated with the music. The mother wasn't able to pay for piano lessons so she traded housecleaning services for weekly lessons and a piano for her daugther to practice on everyday with Mr.Chong who was a retired piano teacher.
  
• Describe the piano teacher
• Mr.Chong the piano teacher who lived on the first floor of their apartment was a retired piano teacher. He was retired because he was deaf.
  
• What do Auntie Lindo and Jing-Mei's mother have in common?
• They both want Jing-Mei to be prodigy.
  
• In your own words, relate the events of the recital.
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• What does the author mean when she says, "I didn't have to do what my mother said anymore... This wasn't China"? page 97
• When the Author says " "I didn't have to do what my mother said anymore... This wasn't China", she mean that she was not a slave who had to do everything her moms tell her to do. She refers that she can also made her own decisions.
  
• What words does the author use to describe her mother's disappointment in her?
• The auther used words like stricken face,weakly debastated and quivering face.
  
• Why does Jing-mei come back to play the piano after her mother's death?
• Jing-mei came back to play the piano after her mother's death because when she had the piano returned and touched the keys it sounded harder them what she remenbered. She realized that she had the talent to play the piano she just needed to try it.