This story is about a Chinese mother that want her daughter,Jing-Mei,to be a child prodigy at the age of nine.At first,Jing-Mei is excited as her mother about becoming a famous child prodigy.However,after many times that her mother show her magazine articles about many child prodigy and try to quizzes her to be like them,she realized that she can't do like them.She feel that her mother is trying to change her to be someone that she not.Later on in the story,Jing-mei's mother saw this Chinese girl prodigy playing the piano on the tv and she want Jing-mei to be like that girl.She then make Jing-mei go take a lesson with a downstair neighbor,Mr.Chong,who is a retired piano instructor and is deaf.Jing-mei took advantage of his deaf by play whatever notes and don't really pay attention to the lesson.Later on,Mr. Chong and her mother told her to play in this talent show.When the time come,at first,Jing-mei feel that she is a real prodigy and that she can do it,however,when she start playing the piano,she mostly played the wrong notes.At the end of the show, she feel dissapointed in herself and feel sorry for her parents that they have to sit there watching her make mistake on the stage.When they got home,Jing-mei expect her mother to yell at her about what happened,but instead she didn't say anything to her.Two days later,Jing-mei's mother still forced her to practice playing the piano.Jing-mei was very mad and she told her mother that she wants her to be something that she is not.She says that she will never be the type of daughter her mother wants.Jing-mei screams that she wishes she had never been born and then,wanting to hurt her mother,screams that she wishes she was dead like her mother's first children.After the fight,her mother never make her touch the piano again.Overall,I like this story.The message that I got from this story is that the mother should let their kids be whatever that they want to be.The mother should not forced their kids to be what they don't want to be because at the end,the result will most likely to be a failure.