In a way, this letter is just as important to Shiri as it is to Zenzele because while it provides the motherly advice that Zenzele will always treasure, it also gives Shiri a fighting chance to convince Zenzele to intertwine her education abroad with the roots of her home country and ancestors. Ever since Zenzele was a kid, she would debate with her mother about many things, much of the time about their culture and other times about the world around her. She had always been looking for answers, wanting to explore and understand everything she could. Even her mother had a hard time keeping up with her in a conversation. She said, “In your company, I often feel blind, groping for firm objects, hesitant lest I collide with some obstacle I cannot characterize, let alone surmount” (Maraire 4).
To make her point clear she uses a lot of pathos and a lot of examples from experiences with herself and her two daughters, Louisa and Sofia. At the beginning when she tells the stories about her daughters trying to fight back you think ’what a terrible mother’, but she uses this feeling to support the view the readers have on the Chinese mothers as being mean to their kids so that afterwards she can tell how it turned out good and therefor the way she raises her kids is the best. Amy Chua has a high ethos because she is a professor at Yale which is a very respected job, and as a parent it makes her more reliable because she tells the reader that her parents treated her the same way that she treats her daughters, and as we can see she has been very successful. Also she uses loghos: ”In one study of 50 Western American mothers and 48 Chinese immigrant mothers, almost 70 % of the Western mothers said either that ”stressing academic success is not good for children” or that ”parents need to foster the idea that learning is fun”. By contrast,
Her social betterment to the world caused everyone else to make the best of our lives and help other people. If not for Oprah, who would all the suffering children look up to? Her inspirational life story shows that anyone can persevere through the toughest of times and to me she is the most admirable person in the
Dylan LeVine Professor Amber Day LCS 121A February 9, 2012 Yin and Yang Identity is an aspect of one’s life that must be formed on one’s own and not solely on the words or actions of others. The people around us can help build our identity, but is us who have to truly find ourselves. Two Kinds is narrated by Jing Mei Woo, a young girl whose mother pushes her to become a “prodigy child”. At first she liked the idea because she would be able to make her mother happy, but later gets locked in a struggle over her identity. People rely heavily on the way others perceive them; however your true identity is formed primarily on how you perceive yourself.
In the auto-biographical novel "Red Scarf Girl" by Ji-li Jiang, the protagonist Ji-li, greatly influences her own little world. Because of Ji-li’s actions, her family’s life is changed drastically. Ji-li was taught to put her country above her family. Throughout the story Ji-li's feelings about Mao Zedong continue to evolve. In the beginning she is very pro-revolutionary, but as time passes she realizes that Chairman Mao’s policies are not always correct.
The daughters in the stories thought their mothers were very pushy about some things and they did not like it. However, what they did not realize is the intention their mother had for them to be in a better, more independent situation then they were. Jing-Mei Woo was one of the daughters in chapter eight titled Two Kinds and it stated, “I hated the tests, something inside of me began to die”. (Page 141) When Jing-Mei’s mother saw other people excelling, she thought it was necessary for her daughter to do the same thing. She had been put on a pedestal in her mind as a type of prodigy.
Here are some reasons: Economic recession, infertility, education and career ambition, or medical issues, might make a woman not want to be a mother. Jessica Handler is choosing childlessness because of her biological dice is facing disbelief and disapproval from friends, family, and society in general. I agree with the choice that Ms. Handler made to not be a mother. Being an effective parent is a huge responsibility that a responsible woman needs
She wants things to get better. Having this mentality in her mind, the mother eventually gets portrayed as an antagonist. The mother pushes Jing Mei into trying different kinds of talents. She believes “you could be anything you wanted to be in America” (362). However, Jing Mei, the protagonist in the story, does not want to follow her mother’s hope and desire.
Many debates have happened whether or not these women approach feminism for their time period. The answer to that is ambiguous and depends on how the reader takes in their writings. One can say that even though Wollstonecraft is so obviously pining for co-education, and in that way to be equal to men, she is not promoting equality for anything else. By not wanting to be equal in anything else, how can she be approaching feminism? Pizan so obviously from the start of her writing, introduces how women should behave (from the perspective of a princess), so that her actions shall be beneficial to her and her husband.
She vividly details out the importance of each holiday and each traditions she has to follow as a child growing up in a Chinese family, the Chinese traditions were rather strict than the recent modern generations such as mine. However, even though all of her childhood activities were just briefly touched, one can still tell that the pain Jade had to endure started at a very early stage of her life. It is only normal for all to believe that a person should have an innocent, joyful and worry free childhood no matter what, because this will help to shape the majority of one’s personality, beliefs and many other traits; in Jade’s case, this form of “early education”