In the book, the Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan talks about four Chinese women who moved to the United States with their family to get a better life for their children. In the second section of the book called, “The Twenty- Six Malignant Game” talks about the women’s daughter and how the moms forced their children into doing things causing their daughters to hate them in the end of the story. Also, this section of the book is very similar to an article named “Tiger Mom” by Amy Chua, because they share the same culture.
In the reading both stories share many similarities, in part of the section in “The Twenty- Six Malignant Game” the first part of section called, “Rules of the Game” Lindo Jong has forced her daughter into playing chess, Waverly Jong the daughter, had loved for the game and could play for hours but after awhile and how her mother had treated the game as a way of life Waverly did not want to play anymore. Lindo had forced her daughter too much and causing her to revolt. Just like Amy Chua did with her daughters by forcing them to play the piano everyday and making them practice until they were able to get it right. In the end, Amy’s youngest daughter got tired of her mother telling what to do and forcing her to play the piano so she decided to rebel against her mother. Like both moms they made the mistakes of forcing and pushing their daughters too much into they were no longer able to take their mothers and in the end rebel against them and started to hate them.
The differences in this story is that, at the end of the story of “Rule of the game” the mother daughter relationship had changed. Linda Jong does not talk to her daughter and looks at her in disgraced. She is not happy what her daughter has done and is not proud of what she has done. On the other hand, Amy Chua fought back against her daughter and she took a stand. Amy put more forced on what has happen, when Amy let the law down on her daughter and when her daughter decided that the fight was over and to take her mothers advice and played the piano again, the daughter was proud of herself. They’re relationship was stronger than ever before because the daughter has trust in her mother. The ending and how the mother reacted to the rebellion with their daughters is what makes them different.
In the reading both stories share many similarities, in part of the section in “The Twenty- Six Malignant Game” the first part of section called, “Rules of the Game” Lindo Jong has forced her daughter into playing chess, Waverly Jong the daughter, had loved for the game and could play for hours but after awhile and how her mother had treated the game as a way of life Waverly did not want to play anymore. Lindo had forced her daughter too much and causing her to revolt. Just like Amy Chua did with her daughters by forcing them to play the piano everyday and making them practice until they were able to get it right. In the end, Amy’s youngest daughter got tired of her mother telling what to do and forcing her to play the piano so she decided to rebel against her mother. Like both moms they made the mistakes of forcing and pushing their daughters too much into they were no longer able to take their mothers and in the end rebel against them and started to hate them.
The differences in this story is that, at the end of the story of “Rule of the game” the mother daughter relationship had changed. Linda Jong does not talk to her daughter and looks at her in disgraced. She is not happy what her daughter has done and is not proud of what she has done. On the other hand, Amy Chua fought back against her daughter and she took a stand. Amy put more forced on what has happen, when Amy let the law down on her daughter and when her daughter decided that the fight was over and to take her mothers advice and played the piano again, the daughter was proud of herself. They’re relationship was stronger than ever before because the daughter has trust in her mother. The ending and how the mother reacted to the rebellion with their daughters is what makes them different.
Great point! If parents do not push their kids to succeed, what will "fuel" (drive) a child to succeed??
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