Two kinds 1/12/12

Tan’s piece was a compelling autobiography because she focuses on one story within a bigger story. She starts out telling about her mother and how they are both so excited for her to be famous, but then Tan realizes she wants to be only herself and basically starts sabotaging her mother’s “training sessions”. I believe that focusing on the piano story and telling about her mother’s death at the end was a good way to show how the piano went from a illiteracy to a literacy.