Summary Of Battle Hymn Of The Tiger Mother By Amy Chua

Amy Chua is an American lawyer and author she is a professor at Yale Law School and an author of”Day of Empire” and “World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability.” Amy Chua in her essay from her book “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother”, describes the differences between Chinese mothers and Western mothers. Chua’s purpose is to the difference between the mothers and also their point of views on raising their child. She adopts an harsh tone in order to have mothers and expecting mother to understand the differences to help them with different parenting techniques. Chua achieves her purpose through the use of syntax and selection of details. Amy Chua begins with words that makes it sound as if she is about to …show more content…
In the first and second paragraph Amy Chua introduces explosive diction that is making mothers feel concerned about the topic that she is going to talk about. Chua gives the idea of fear instilled at the beginning with words like “difficult”, “nonstop”, “drilling”, “fell apart”, “exasperation”. “Thrashed”, “kicked”, “punched”, and “destroyed” helps connect the mothers to the how the Chinese parents don’t give up on their children, they would give up everything for their child. This in turn, makes them feel like they are being bitter towards their techniques of teaching their child. The audience is reminded of their ways of raising and teaching their children. This relates to the purpose because it demonstrates the harsh and cruelty that these children go through, but the reason for it is to help them learn and be successful. Later Chua’s tone swift to a more sincere tone when she she starts using firm words like “imperturbable”, “confidently”, “faster”. In the paragraph eight Amy Chua introduces an positive diction that is making parents but mostly mothers try to understand why Chinese mothers use these techniques it