Guided Reading

1) What is a prodigy and why does the mother want the main character to become one?

Answer: Prodigy means movie stars or music pop. Main character mother want Ni Kan become one famous Chines actors in American.

2) How does the mother prepare her daughter for fame?

Answer: Ni Kan mother took her in beauty training school and her streak hair made crinkly. Ni Kan mother mad her hair the length of a boy's with straight- across. Also hung at slant two inches above her eyebrows. Ni Kan mother made her future fame.

3) What talents does the girl have?

Answer: I think she have different talent but whatever her mother wanted be she dose not have that talent. When her mother want to her learn act or piano she never did good.

4) Why does she start the piano lessons and how is the mother going to pay for them?

Answer: Ni Kan mother wanted fascinated by the music. She want Ni Kan was proudly modest like a Chinese child. Mr. Chong who was live in same building with Ni Kan, he was retired piano teacher. Ni Kan mother was housecleaning services for weekly lessons and he was teach her piano everyday.


5) Describe the piano teacher.

Answer: Mr. Chong his nicknamed old Chong, was very strange. Always tapping his finger. He was lost most of his hair on top of his head, his eyes always looked tired and sleepy. He was lived with his mother, he was not married yet.

6) What do Auntie Lindo and Jing-Mei's mother have in common?

Answer: Auntie Lindo and Jing- Mei's mother have same common is both of them wanted the child prodigy. And there are child did the many thing they do it in there childhood.

7) In your own words, relate the events of the recital.

Answer: Relate the events of the recital means performance of a program of music by the instrumentalist small group.

8. 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

Answer: She was decided that she was not listen to her mother because she was not her mother slave. And this is not China. She want to whatever she like.


9) What words does the author use to describe her mother's disappointment in her?

Answer: Author use the many describe to her mother disappointment,like she could sense her anger rising breaking point. she want to see it spill over. She wish she was died. Her mouth was closed, her arm went slack, and she was backed out the room, like a small brown leaf, thin and lifeless.

10) Why does Jing-mei come back to play the piano after her mother's death?

Answer: When Jing- mei was came back to her old home, after her mother die to pick up her mother thing. Then she was remember all those thing her mother did with her. Letter on she was fell bad for her mother. Because her mother did lol of thing for her prodigy. I think she was fell bad for her mother, so she was back to play piano to success to her mother dream.