A happy and healthy mother-daughter relationship is one of the building blocks of society that if nurtured and treated the right way, can create two happy humans. In Amy Chua’s memoir “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom” and Amy Tan’s novel “The Joy Luck club” a mother in each story uses different tones and words to try and relieve tension. An excerpt from “ The Violin” in “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom” shows a mother and her daughter in a disagreement that is not dangerously angry, but mainly frustration and annoyance. “Jing-Mei Woo: Two Kinds” is an excerpt in “ The Joy luck Club” that shows a mother-daughter relationship with strong dislike from the daughter and fierce anger from the mother. Both stories show a mother using different words and tones that affect their relationships with their daughters.
The excerpt “The Violin” from the memoir “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom” by Amy Chua shows a mother and her daughter, Lulu, having a strenuous relationship. The strain comes from Lulu’s violin playing and her mother’s attempts to help her improve. Lulu’s mother begins to lose her patience with Lulu’s lack of success screaming, “ RELAX!” (Chua 47-48). The mother is trying to be patient and kind to Lulu, but her efforts to improve her daughter’s violin playing seem to only hurt their …show more content…
In “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom” the mother takes a softer more patient demeanor when dealing with frustration between her and her daughter. The calmness shown by the mother allows her and her daughter to remain in a good relationship. In “Jing-Mei Woo: Two Kinds” the mother is angry and impatient with her daughter. Lack of understanding and forcefulness directed at her daughter causes them to have problems in their relationship. The two different parenting approaches used by each mother in her own story affects their mother-daughter
The excerpt “The Violin” from the memoir “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom” by Amy Chua shows a mother and her daughter, Lulu, having a strenuous relationship. The strain comes from Lulu’s violin playing and her mother’s attempts to help her improve. Lulu’s mother begins to lose her patience with Lulu’s lack of success screaming, “ RELAX!” (Chua 47-48). The mother is trying to be patient and kind to Lulu, but her efforts to improve her daughter’s violin playing seem to only hurt their …show more content…
In “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom” the mother takes a softer more patient demeanor when dealing with frustration between her and her daughter. The calmness shown by the mother allows her and her daughter to remain in a good relationship. In “Jing-Mei Woo: Two Kinds” the mother is angry and impatient with her daughter. Lack of understanding and forcefulness directed at her daughter causes them to have problems in their relationship. The two different parenting approaches used by each mother in her own story affects their mother-daughter