Why I Love My Strict Chinese Mom Analysis

How children should be raised has always been an interesting question and an interesting thought, because the fact is that there are so many different opinions. “Why I love my strict Chinese mom” is the first text written by Sophia Chua-Rubenfeld. She defends her mother’s provocative essay “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior” by saying that, because of her mother’s extremely strict way of raising her, she is disciplined and smart girl and she has a direction in life. She says that the sole reason for her independency and ability to make her own choices without worrying what people think of her because of the strict way she was raised. Kate Loveys’ article “Let them eat pizza: Parenting guru’s recipe for bringing up children” is quite the opposite.

Neill presents another interesting way of raising your children. He says that instead of trying to teach our children what we think they must learn, we must look into their soul and see what their desires actually is. When the child has found its desire the parent and child must work to develop some talent. Instead of putting pressure on our children, we must give them space to develop into something they like.

One of the texts that really stand out is definitely A.S. Neill’s. He does not account for money or a bright future; he only cares if the child is doing something it loves. He has an interesting way of engaging the reader by presenting a lot of examples such as: “But all the wonderful labs and workshops do nothing to help Jane or Peter or Ivan surmount the emotional damage (…)” (Text 3. L. 26-27). This way of presenting it with random names is an exceptional way of engaging the reader, simply because of the fact that it could have been the reader. A.S. Neill is also taking good use of rhetorical devices, especially Pathos. He uses a lot of Pathos to make us feel sorry for the children, who are forced to go to school and be taught something they don’t actually care