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The relationship between a mother and daughter is very complex, however a mother would never let anything get in the way between the two of them. In the Excerpts Battle Hymn of The Tiger Mom by Amy Chua and Novel The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, the mother-daughter relationships are slightly bitter. While Amy Chua uses more of a tense yet caring tone, Amy Tan has a hostile and harsh tone against her mother. Amy Chua uses a tense yet caring tone in The Violin to express how Chua and her daughter's relationship is based of off love even though playing the violin causes conflict between the two. There is a point of irony when the mother says “RELAX! I screamed” (Chua 47-48) because Lulu,the daughter, can not be relaxed when Chua continues to scream

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