All 8 Uses of
prodigy
in
The Joy Luck Club
- "Of course you can be prodigy, too," my mother told me when I was nine.
Chpt 10prodigy = someone with exceptional ability
- We didn't immediately pick the right kind of prodigy.
Chpt 10prodigy = person with exceptional ability
- I pictured this prodigy part of me as many different images, trying each one on for size.
Chpt 10prodigy = someone with exceptional ability
- But sometimes the prodigy in me became impatient.
Chpt 10
- And then I saw what seemed to be the prodigy side of me--because I had never seen that face before.
Chpt 10
- Two or three months had gone by without any mention of my being a prodigy again.
Chpt 10
- It was as if I knew, without a doubt, that the prodigy side of me really did exist.
Chpt 10
- And when I lost, I was filled with growing dread, and then terror that I was no longer a prodigy, that I had lost the gift and had turned into someone quite ordinary.
Chpt 13 *
Definition:
someone with exceptional ability -- especially at a young age
or:
an impressive example of something
or:
an impressive example of something