Which passages from "Two Kinds," Part 2, provide details that illustrate the cultural perspective of the narrator, Jing-mei?
Select all that apply.
Two Kinds, Part 2
In the years that followed, I failed her so many times, each time asserting my own will, my right to fall short of expectations. I didn't get straight A's. I didn't
become class president. I didn't get into Stanford.
I swept my right foot out, went down on my knee, looked up and smiled. The room was quiet, except for Old Chong, who was beaming and shouting,
"Bravo! Bravo! Well done!" But then I
saw my mother's face, her stricken face.
As I said these things I got scared. It felt like worms and toads and slimy things crawling out of my chest, but it also felt good, as if this awful side of me had
surfaced, at last.
It was as if I had said the magic words. Alakazam!-and her face went blank, her mouth closed, her arms went slack, and she backed out of the room,
stunned, as if she were blowing away like a small brown leaf, thin, brittle, lifeless.