"The girl staring back at me was angry, powerful. This girl and I were the same. I had new thoughts, willful thoughts, or rather thoughts filled with lots of won'ts. I won't let her change me, I promised myself. I won't be what I'm not."
Jing-Mei is realizing she can do what she wants. She doesn't need to listen to her mother who is pushing her to do things. If Jing-Mei doesn't want to be a child prodigy, she doesn't have to. I think she's grown and feels more freedom with this feeling.
The literary term I chose is ROUND CHARACTER (a character who demonstrates some complexity and who develops or changes in the course of a work). Jing-Mei starts out obeying her mother and trying to please her and do what she says. She tries everything her mother asks in order to become a child prodigy. By the end of the chapter Jing-Mei is an adult. She finds the old music she played at her first recital. She finds that "Pleading Child" is followed with "Perfectly Contented". She demonstrates some complexity and develops and changes into the girl she is now over the course the chapter. Just like you and I, Jing-Mei grows and develops and becomes a new person.
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