Comparing Battle Hymn Of The Tiger Mom And The Joy Luck Club
The maternal instinct is a gift that every mother has. But the need to protect their children is also an excuse to control them. Mother-daughter relationships are a bond of trust between parent and child. When children have nightmares, their mother comforts them. But when the mother is the nightmare, they have no comfort. The topics are excerpts, one is from Amy Chua’s memoir Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom and the other is from Amy Tan’s novel The Joy Luck Club are about mother-daughter relationships. The authors wrote about their own memories. Chua is about being the mother of two daughters and Tan is about being the daughter of two Chinese immigrant parents. In Amy Chua’s excerpt “The Violin”, Chua is retelling a memory of her and her daughter,