What would serve as strong evidence of the universal theme of conflict between children and parents in amy tan's story "two kinds”? a description of amy tan's childhood a description of the piece of music jing-mei plays a quotation revealing the dreams of jing-mei's mother a quotation showing jing-mei's purposeful failure

The correct answer would be: "A quotation revealing the dreams of Jing-Mei's mother"

The first option "A description of Amy Tan's childhood" does not directly relate to the story. Also, there is not a clear idea of how conflictive was her childhood, so we can´t tell for sure.

In the second option "A description of the piece of music Jing-Mei plays" we know from the lecture that the piece that she plays is "Pleading Child" from Robert Schumann. However, there is no objective reason to believe that this is strong evidence of the theme of conflict in the story. It could be a hint, however, it remains unclear.

The last option "A quotation showing Jing-mei's purposeful failure" could be a close hint, however, let's remember that she was a purposeful failure only to her mother's eyes, and this statement is globalizing the idea of failure in Jing-Mei, when she was an excellent piano interpreter.

"A quotation revealing the dreams of Jing-Mei's mother" gives us the best evidence of this universal conflict between children and parents, because she was projecting her idea of 'success' in Jing-Mei picturing her as a prodigy for abilities such as multiplying complex numbers in her head, or knowing all the world's capitals.

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