The relationship between a mother and a daughter is a very strong bond. The mother being the one to protect the daughter from any danger and to push the daughter to her potential in life. Amy Chua’s Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom and Jing-Mei Woo’s The Joy Luck Club shows the frustration and belligerent attitudes in a mother-daughter relationship. The despondent tone in both stories give a perfect representation of this sort of complicated relationship.
In Amy Chua’s excerpt “The Violin” is written from Chua’s perspective on how she interacts with her daughter when getting taught how to play the Violin. From the beginning of the excerpt you can already see how the relationship between Chua and her daughter are. To reinforce what Mr. Shugart Chua’s daughters violin teacher told her daughter she screams to her daughter “RELAX!” ( Chua 47-48). Doing this make her daughter a annoyed of her mother sometimes. Chua pushing her daughter so much makes her daughter become more aggressive towards her mother. Her daughter would tell her to “Just turn off your brain”(Chua 47-48) because her mother is pushing her so much that she is frustrated and doesn’t want her to speak again..Aside from all of this the mother and daughter still have much love for one another away from getting taught the violin.
Throughout Amy Tan’s excerpt “ Two Kinds” the …show more content…
In the two stories, both mothers were trying to push their daughters to reach their fullest potential, but then seem to regret pushing their daughters so hard. Although each mother was trying to do what she felt best for her daughter, daughter keeps trying to accomplish what she felt best for herself. It becomes a battle between the will of mother and daughter. A mother-daughter relationship is an incredibly complicated one with an unbreakable bond. In both stories, it appears that a deep seeded resentment is invoked causing very strong sentiment from both mother and
In Amy Chua’s excerpt “The Violin” is written from Chua’s perspective on how she interacts with her daughter when getting taught how to play the Violin. From the beginning of the excerpt you can already see how the relationship between Chua and her daughter are. To reinforce what Mr. Shugart Chua’s daughters violin teacher told her daughter she screams to her daughter “RELAX!” ( Chua 47-48). Doing this make her daughter a annoyed of her mother sometimes. Chua pushing her daughter so much makes her daughter become more aggressive towards her mother. Her daughter would tell her to “Just turn off your brain”(Chua 47-48) because her mother is pushing her so much that she is frustrated and doesn’t want her to speak again..Aside from all of this the mother and daughter still have much love for one another away from getting taught the violin.
Throughout Amy Tan’s excerpt “ Two Kinds” the …show more content…
In the two stories, both mothers were trying to push their daughters to reach their fullest potential, but then seem to regret pushing their daughters so hard. Although each mother was trying to do what she felt best for her daughter, daughter keeps trying to accomplish what she felt best for herself. It becomes a battle between the will of mother and daughter. A mother-daughter relationship is an incredibly complicated one with an unbreakable bond. In both stories, it appears that a deep seeded resentment is invoked causing very strong sentiment from both mother and