Towards the end of the tale, Kingston tells of a song Ts’ai Yen sings: “Her words seemed to be Chinese, but the barbarians understood their sadness and anger…her children did not laugh, but eventually sang along” (209). In the scene, Kingston alludes to a conversation that goes beyond understand or interpretation and transcends to a state of peace between the two cultures, barbarian and native. Without even knowing the language or the culture, the barbarians understand the truth of the words. Music is a universal expression that unites. Although the children, representing Americanized Chinese, are rather separated from their mother’s culture, they still find a tune they can relate to.
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,
She had invested the time trying to make Jing-mei a prodigy because she was her last hope. Jing-mei’s mother had lost two children while in China. Jing-mei’s mother also expected her to be a prodigy because she was a Chinese immigrant; she felt immigrants had to prove that they were as talented as or more talented than Americans were. <br> <br>Jing-mei’s mother didn’t know what she wanted her to do, so she experimented. First came the dancing and singing trails, “ at first my mother wanted me to be a Chinese Shirley Temple†(Tan 450).
In her review she stated which sentences, and where to find them, that needed the most help. She commented on the fact they were hard to follow and confusing. She also pointed out that I needed to elaborate more on the summary. I only mentioned Ken, a classmate from the excerpt, once in my paper. I need to introduce him in my summary to understand my reference in the conclusion.
Name: Instructor: Course: Date: “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan The article “Mother Tongue” by Amy Tan is mainly about the author’s thoughts and judgments on broken English in comparison to Standard English. Tan is an American writer who was born in China and is torn between two different worlds: the American society and the Chinese society, which have very diverse societal behaviors and values (Tan 142-146). Tan describes how she relates with her mother who, according to her, speaks broken English. She talks about the limitations of her mother’s English including its advantages and disadvantages. This paper provides a summary of the article, including its major themes.
Michael Brunswick Martin W130 April 17, 20 Final Copy: CC Comparative Critique of “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior” by Amy Chua “Mother Inferior” by Hanna Rosin: Tiger Mom vs. Tiger Mailroom” by Patrick Goldstein Amy Chua has introduced a unique way of parenting through her article “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior” in contrast to western practices. In response to her article, the authors Hanna Rosin and Patrick Goldstein have responded with a different point of view concerning the practice of methods used to educate individuals. As they present their arguments, we will better understand each writer’s position on the matter of education and their stance on how it is implemented in their articles but more importantly, how each perspective will ultimately affect a child’s view on the value of parenting practices concerning education. Patrick Goldstein has taken the stance of the ability to bypass the basic need of the pursuit of knowledge to further one’s career. The example of hard work or ingenuity would prevail in the overall scheme of things and using examples of individuals that have become successful with inventions or self-motivation versus ardent instruction, Goldstein’s stance on education is secondary to talent and the ability to form relationships that could possibly advance one’s professional status is more important than self-discipline through education.
Red Azalea was published in 1994. Something that affects the book historically is that the China Cultural Revolution was mentioned in the book, because she had to go through the hardships of living during that period of time. 4.) Since this is a memoir of Anchee Min’s life growing up in China during the Cultural Revolution, I don’t think there’s much bias in the book, because she lived through it. It reminds me of Diary of Anne Frank.
Response to Article “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior”: Justification In the article, “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior,” Amy Chua argues her point that Chinese parents have the best ways in parenting their children in comparison to the ways of Western parents. She supports her point by giving a personal example of how she parents her daughter with harsh discipline and how it proved to be effective for her daughter. I disagree with the author’s position and find that this is not a valid claim. Amy Chua writes that the best way to protect their children is to prepare them for the future by testing their abilities and reinforcing strict rules. Chua emphasizes that the different parenting mode Chinese parents use in comparison to that of Western parents reflect how “they would give up anything for their children.” However, from children’s perspectives, would children appreciate and acknowledge such a parenting mode and believe that their Chinese parents truly care them?
Why Chinese Moms Are Superior The document “Why Chinese Moms are Superior” written by Amy Chua depicts the lifestyle of a stereotypical American-Asian family and its success in mastery of many areas of extracurricular, some of which include piano playing and math solving skills. In Amy’s journal, she discusses particularly about her two daughters and how the strict rules that were reinforced helped her daughters become better at certain activities which they are expected by Asian traditions to master. Amy lists off many things her two daughters were forbidden to do, whilst normal children can. For example, Amy’s daughters, Sophia and Louisa, were not allowed to attend a sleepover or get a grade lower than an A. Following these strict prohibitions, it is evident that consequently, Sophia and Louisa will have much time on their hands, which in turn, their mom will use to enforce vigorous studying and practicing schedules, whichever subject or activity they may do.
Through the conversation between Le and Ke, Le has developed her knowledge about China. The statement of Ke “Because they don’t affect you, here they affect all of us” provides Leah a new source of knowledge and understanding about China. It also destroys the distance between Leah and China. She starts to understand the political and historical about China. She is able to understand the reason that why the students making a protest because she also a student.