"Two kinds" of Cultural Identity
ACTIVITY
1.5
Learning Target
• Analyze how two characters interact and develop over the course of a text to
explain how conflict is used to advance the theme.
LEARNING STRATEGIES
Discussion Groups, Morking
the Text, Brainstorming
grophic organizer,
Questioning the lead
Preview
In this activity, you will read on excerpt from a novel and analyze the conflict
between two characters,
Setting a Purpose for Reading
• As you read Amy Ton's "Two kinds," look for evidence of conflict, Mark the text
for the reasons for the conflict and how it is resolved.
• Circle unknown words and phrases. Try to determine the meaning of the words
by using context clues, word ports, or o dictionary
Host"
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Amy Ton was bombas Colifornia in 1952, several years after her parents left
their native Chine A writer from a very young age, ton experienced difficulty
erty in life resulting from the untimely deaths of her father and brother,
rebellious adolescence, and the expectations of others Educated at a
Switzerland boarding school as well as ot on jose State and Berkeley, Tom
timately became a writer of fiction. She has written numerous award winning
novels, including the most famous The Joy Luck Club, from which "Two kinds
is an except. Ton resides in Son Francisco with her husband and twn dogs,
Bubo and
Literary Terms
A conflict is a struggle or
problem in a story. The
central conflict of a fictional
te sets the story
motion. An internal conflict
occurs when a character
struggles between
opposing needs or desires
or emotions within his
her own mlad. An extemul
conftit occurs whesd
character struggles against
on outside force. This force
may be hother character
societal expectation, or
something in the physical
world
lude varios
phrases the
My Notes
Novel Excerpt
Two Kinds
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My mother believed you could be anything you want to be to America. You
could open a res. You could work for the power and prete
Voday house with almost no money down. You could become the could
em only Camco
you can be prodigy, to my mother told me whaline
anything What Auntie Lindo nowfitades sily best
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