“Two Kinds” by Amy Tan is the story of a young Chinese girl's life as a teenager and the influence her mother has on her growing up . Coming from a first generation Korean immigrant family, I can't help but completely identify with growing up around that kind of "support." Although my parents were quite Westernized in their thinking, we had an aunt living with us who we affectionately called the Tiger Aunt growing up. Having no biological children, he treated me and my siblings as if we were his children and had pretty much free rein to direct and help raise us the way he wanted, which was with a very traditional and old-fashioned perspective. Tan's use of dialogue, symbolism, and description of her mother's thoughts and behaviors take me back many years ago to when I was a teenager growing up around my aunt and how I am able to completely relate from the narrator's point of view. I find these similarities striking. In “Two Kinds,” the dialogue used by the narrator's mother is one of the most important things that reminds me of my tiger aunt. Aside from the broken English used, one similarity between my aunt and the narrator's mother is the tough love approach they take towards parenting. Just as the narrator's mother says: “Not the best. Why aren't you trying” (Tan 28), my aunt had a way of emphasizing my weaknesses in an attempt to bring out my strengths. This made me become spiteful towards my aunt and I didn't pay attention to the suggestions she gave me or the things she was sincerely trying to teach me. The narrator's mother sums up my aunt's attitude toward the way I behaved during my many moments of rebellion in two words: “I am grateful” (Tan 34). My aunt also had a habit of comparing me and my siblings to her friends' children, and it was as if an unspoken competition was taking place to see which children would come out on top with their accolades and achievements. This was a part of life that the narrator had to deal with, as her mother constantly made statements about her daughter that were not necessarily true, such as when she states that "If we ask Jing-mei to do the dishes, she won't hear anything else what music"..