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Battle Hymn Of The Tiger Mom Literary Analysis
A mother is always supposed to want the best for her child and to look after her with care and compassion. Mother-daughter relationships is one of the most important relationships we will ever have. That being said, we get to see two different relationships in the memoir Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom by Amy Chua and the novel The Joy Luck Club By Amy Tan. In the memoir, Chua’s tone is portrayed as a stressed mom, and Tan’s tone in the novel is expressed as resentful child.
In the excerpt from “The Violin” in Amy Chua’s Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom. Amy Chua shows us her struggle to balance her equilibrium between calm and frustrated while her daughter is practicing her instrument. Chua expressed her frustration using irony as she states, “‘RELAX!’
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