In modern society, more and more people concert about the influence that parents affect their kids. So there are two stories which catch people’s eyes. In the story “Two Kinds” and “Tiger Moms” which wrote by Annie Murphy Paul and Amy Tan, the heroes of stories are Amy’s mother and Amy Chua respectively. The difference is that Amy Chua is crueler than Amy’s mother. However those two characters both hope their kids have wonderful career in the future. Firstly, Amy’s mother and Amy Chua are expected their children to have a special talent that will help them a lot in the future. In the story “Tiger Moms”, the writer wrote” I really don’t have any particular career path in mind for Sophia and Lulu, as long as they feel passionate about it and …show more content…
In the story” Tiger Moms” the writer wrote” with no breaks for water or even the bathroom, until at last Lulu learned to play the piece.” This quote mean Amy abused her kids by unreasonable rules. For instance, do not allow them to go to bathroom or drink water during study time. As we know, 7 years old children are hard to learn new skills, so we need to encourage them. We also know children’s psychological health is important. Thus this way is not appropriate for children education. Amy Chua treat child like a robot, that is very bad. By contrast, Amy’s mother did allow her daughter to watch TV or playing. In the story “Two Kinds”, the writer wrote” She got up – the TV broke into loud piano music.” These quote means she watched the TV with her daughter. This is the main reason that she forced her daughter learn piano because she envied another girl who performed on TV. It is significant because it let us know she allowed her kids to watched TV shows. To summarize, Amy’s mother was more kind than Amy Chua in daily life. She didn’t set up too many rules for kids. Overall, In the story “Two Kinds” and “Tiger Moms” which wrote by Annie Murphy Paul and Amy Tan, Amy’s mother was more kind than Amy Chua in daily life but both of them expect their children to have a glorious
Out of grief, Tiger’s mother stays in her room and cries while her sister Dorie Kay seems to resort to keeping busy to deal with her sadness. Nevertheless, life moves on in Saitter, and although it pains her, Tiger must move on too, but she will never forget the memories she has had with her beloved
With Sugar the struggle was easy, yet with Silvia a lot more difficult. It was children like Silvia that Ms. Moore knew she would have to be a bit more extreme in not only teaching her verbally, but also showing her the difference in knowing the “real meaning of money, how to earn it and spend it”. As an educator, the challenge doesn’t only apply to the immediate family. The challenge also surrounds it self by environmental and media factors including but not limited to music, thus as a child until someone comes along and takes the time to explain and physically show you your ultimate options you could potentially remain still. Ms. Moore knew that and with that she took the children to “F.A.O. Schwarz” in New York.
Dear Mrs. Amy Chua, As an experienced (seasoned) mother of four, having recently read an excerpt from your book “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother” I unconditionally disagree with your perspective on this idea. Your ideal parenting method is unacceptable as it damages self-esteem, confidence, and creativity. It truly scares me to think that the content of your article may persuade amateur parents to mimic you and your “tactics”, which would be an absolutely tragic plummet in parenting standards, sending us back to the 1900s. I understand that you believe that the best way to raise a child is through an intense regimen consisting of limited leisure and long hours of study. However, you must recognize that there is much more to childhood than this.
Amy Chau does everything for a reason, even if it is as trivial as picking out an instrument for her children to play. She is a very straightforward, single-minded individual who has a specific ideology for everything she chooses to do. As she states on page 45, “I believed that the only way for Lulu to get out from under the shadow of her high-performing sister was to play an even more difficult, more virtuosic instrument. That’s why I chose the violin.” Her reasoning for picking the violin for Lulu and piano for Sophia was she believed in raising her children the Chinese way, which meant classical music.
Amy Chua’s intense Chinese mother style is extremely hard on children. The author begins explaining how many stereotypical Chinese children become successful.
The mother was a housecleaner, and wanted June to be worth more than that. So she was obsessed with attempting to make June a prodigy. The mother was watching a show that had piano music, and wants June to start playing piano. She exchanges housecleaning services for piano lessons for June. June doesn’t want any of
The realistic fiction story, “Ashes”, by Susan Beth Pfeffer is about a young girl who has two very polar opposite parents. A fun, but irresponsible father, and a practical, proactive mother. Ashes faces a major dilemma when her financially troubled father asks Ashes to steal from her mother’s emergency fund for his own personal needs. Sometimes, the people you love most can be selfish and deceive you. This relates to my story because Ashes’ dad is manipulative, deceptive, and selfish.
“Two Kinds” a short story out of Amy Tan’s book “The Joy Luck Club” is a representation of the pressures immigrant children face from their parents. In the story, we follow a young girl named Jing-Mei as she embarks down the road to becoming a Prodigy. Her mother believed that “you could be anything you wanted to be in America” (Tan). For Jing-Mei that meant her mother believed she could become instantly famous. “Of course, you can be a prodigy, too”, her mother told her (Tan).
She emphasizes that her family “learned how to be unselfish” and that her parents and siblings learned sign language for communication (CITATION HERE). One of the critical
It can be hard on the child to handle the overwhelming responsibility or even missing the empty space which used to be their parent. In passages from Confetti Girl and Tortilla Sun, the tension of having one parent and how that can affect their families is revealed. In Confetti Girl by Diana Lopez, the narrator, Lina, is having trouble coping with the loss of her mom and connecting with her
Best of the Worst Parenting is never perfect. Every parents questions whether they are raising their child correctly, and no parent ever feels like they are doing the right thing. With no clear distinction between good and bad parenting, it is usually left to personal preferences and judgements to decide which parents have adequately raised their children and which have failed. When a parent so call “fails,” often it is the children with their strong will and determination to survive that collectively raise themselves. In Jesmyn Ward’s Sing, Unburied, Sing, Leonie, one of the narrators and the mother of another narrator, Jojo, is not the most caring, hands-on mother, but is loving of her children nevertheless.
In the novel “Ordinary People” by Judith Guest, Beth is the mother of Conrad and Buck Jarrett, Buck tragically died on a boating accident. Beth came from an economically stable family. In the memoir “The Color of Water” by James McBride, Ruth is the mother of James and 11 other children. Ruth came from an economically unstable family and a racist and abusive father. Ruth is a better mother because she strives to teach her kids morals that will help them in the future, whereas Beth is not bad mother because she doesn’t care about anyone but her self.
During that time, Amy Tan’s mother was forcing her to play the piano. Being raised to a very high standard, Tan was expected to be obedient. This meant she was to do anything and everything her mother expected of her, which included playing the piano. Since she was very irritated with her mother, Tan would say things like, “I wish I weren't your daughter, I wish you weren't my mother,” (Tan 141-142). The tone of Amy Tan in the novel is bitter and resentful due to the fact her traditional mother was strict and held Tan to a standard that no one could ever
She talks about how her friends could not understand her mother 's talking but Amy thought her mother was good at speaking English. Amy states, "Some say they understand none of it, as if she were speaking pure Chinese. But to me, my mother 's English is
Additionally, she grew up as a top student, receiving the offer of a famous university and then became one of the most popular authors of children’s books. In any way, Amy was a typical winner, having a successful career, beautiful and charming appearance, enjoying a relatively high social status, and living in a happy marriage. Nevertheless, in reality, Amy