Why do our parents makes us do things we do not want to do? Like most children we always ask each other that exact question. In Kafir Boy by Amy Tang and Two Kinds by boy we read about to two different children who share the same feelings and pressures from their parents. Both children do not understand why their mothers did what they did but throughout the stories they begin to understand their mother and become thankful for what they did for them. In the stories Kafir Boy and Two Kinds we are introduced to two different characters whose parents want their children to be well educated, and will go to the extremes to give them a great education.
As we read Kafir Boy and Two Kinds, we begin to realize that both the mothers and the children are alike. An example of this is that both children feel pressure from their mothers' expectations. Both children feel that they have to be perfect for their mothers to be proud of them. Another example is that both their mothers want what is......
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