2. Compare and contrast the self-image and thoughts of Connie in the following passages to the self-concept and thoughts of the narrator protagonist in Two Kinds as a young child: " ...she had a quick nervous...habit of craning her neck to glance into mirrors, or checking other people's faces to make sure her own was all right" (Charters 977) and "Connie's mother kept picking at her until Connie wished her mother was dead and she herself was dead and it was all over." (978). Can you find similar passages in Two Kinds? What do these similarities reveal to you? What idea can you arrive at from these parallels?
3. How can you connect this story to some aspect of the semester's theme of enslavement? Is the story about enslavement or liberation? If so, to what or from what? Explain please.
Feel free to blog on any aspect of the story that moves you or connects to the semester's work. I look forward to your thoughts. See 1549-1552 in the back of the text for an interesting essay by Tan that is quite illuminating!
