Tiger Mom

The beginning of this book is telling about a tiger family made up of a mother and her two cubs. It follows the cubs growing up, as well as giving information about them. Once the cubs have grown, the book goes on to tell

Raising children is something the vast majority of the human race will challenge themselves with at some point. How to raise children is a common issue but nonetheless a sensitive and a conscious one. Should you strictly and authoritatively lead your children the way because you love them? Or should you – with the same reason in mind – give them space to follow their own passion and make their own individual choices. The Wall Street Journal publishes the article Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior in which Amy Chua composes a persuasive essay where she argues in favour of an authoritative upbringing. Her comment on the issue is characterised by a provocative language and a creates a contrast between the so-called

Amy Chua, a professor at Yale Law School who wrote a memoir named Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, believes that parenting style should be strict parenting is the key to successful child-rearing. In addition, she believes that hardened child-rearing approach with the methods of close monitoring and behavioral restrictions. Also, Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior, Chua wrote that parents should override their children preferences such things as hobbies and academic performance. Moreover, she thinks the vast majority of the Chinese mothers said that they believe their children can be the best students and that academic achievement reflects successful parenting, and that if children did not excel at school then there was a problem and parents were not doing their job. According to Chua, through close monitoring and disciplines, children will be able to

In the article, “Adapted From Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,” Amy Chua, the author, gave some very valid points about how Western children and Chinese children are raised very diversely. Chinese parents are more strict and Western parents are more laid back. Most of the authors points that she made were backed up with statics so they were reliable and valid. There were just a few she didn't back up it was just her opinion. The statements about how the Chinese mothers raise their children are not agreeable or realistic. In all the authors article was valid and had some great points.

Questions have been raised on whether Chinese parenting raises more flourishing children than Western parenting. Despite what people think, in Amy Chua's essay “The Roar of the Tiger Mom”, she portrays the differences between the beliefs of Chinese parenting and Western parenting. Chua introduces the views of a Chinese parent compared to the views of a Western parent. The methods used by Chinese mothers in raising their children are drastically different from Western mothers. Each defends their methods and believes the other group is doing their job poorly. In the end, both types of parents just want one thing-- successful children.

In Penelope Lively’s excerpt from the novel Moon Tiger, a brother and sister search for fossils while their mother waits nearby. Competition between the siblings causes an argument to break out, and Claudia is injured. Lively uses literary techniques to dramatize the complex relationship among the three characters. The excerpt from Moon Tiger illustrates the complex relationships between siblings and a mother and her children.

A tiger mom can be described as strict, stern, and rigorous with high expectations. In the article “Whatever Happened to the Original Tiger Mum's Children?” by Tanith Carey, they discuss how Amy Chua raised her two daughters, Sophia and Lulu Chua-Rubenfeld. They were brought up in a very strict manner of focusing on school and playing violin/piano. They didn’t have much of an outside life, for they were always doing school work. Some may say that Amy Chua raised her daughters in a bad way, but the family speaks out on how it was tough but more happy childhood. Honestly, tiger parenting can get your kids far, but I wouldn’t raise my own kids like this exactly.

Adrienne Rich, poem “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” can be read similar to Alice Walker 's short story "Everyday Use” both are compared by the women’s ways of showing their strengths and how they identify their values, expressions and strength. Advertised in the general outlines of the plot, both literary themes talks of a quest for freedom, the characters identity and self-expression.

The two passages, “Battle of Hymn of the Tiger Mom” by Amy Chua and “The Joy Luck Club” by Amy Tan differ with how the mother-daughter relationships are portrayed and the tones, but share the same theme. The tone in Chua’s passage is normal, while in Tan’s it is more harsh and not as understanding. In Amy Chua’s excerpt “The Violin”, she shows the relationship between the mother, which is Chua, and daughter, Lulu as being normal and commanding. They bicker and fight, but still care about each other.

Emotions are expressed immediately at the beginning of the writing to have his readers grasp his feelings of the situation. Goldstein compares Chua’s “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother” a “depiction of Chinese-style extreme parenting” (Goldstein 272). He then continues to maintain the reader’s attention by explaining Chua’s parenting skills by addressing the fact how the children cannot have play dates, or even watch television. Goldstein inspires his readers by giving individual’s personal experiences that reflect how they became successful.

In the story “Child By Tiger” the author, Thomas Wolfe shows many examples of how a human would react to tragic situations. A central idea of this story is how the events that occurred in the narrator’s childhood were strong enough to change his views and leave a strong imprint on his adult life. One reaction was the boys’ reaction to finding Dick Prosser’s gun in his room. The narrator then tells how the boys reacted individually to the news of Dicks rampage. The final reaction shown in the story was the boys’ going back into Dick’s room. All of these reactions show the human nature of traumatic situations and the lasting effects on the boys’ lives.

One day, Amy Chua decided to write an essay called, “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior.” Amy Chua is a professor at Yale Law School. Chua is a Chinese woman with two daughters. In the essay, Chua compared the differences between Chinese and Western parenting styles. There are different ways of parenting being used everywhere; the four main parenting styles include, Authoritarian, Authoritative, Permissive, and Uninvolved. In the essay Chua made it clear that Western and Chinese parenting styles differ. I tend to agree, as well as disagree with the examples and statements Chua used to compare the way they differ. I believe Chua did an amazing job contrasting Chinese and Western parenting styles.

Parenting has been a struggle since the beginning of human history. Trying to teach the new generation everything they will need to survive in the world is no easy task. It is not an overstatement in the least to suggest that every parent who has ever conceived a child has not, from that moment, been struck with fear from the doubt in their own ability to naturally raise a child to the point of adulthood where there is nothing wrong with in the eyes of society. In adversity to this struggle, parents from the beginning have tried proven and failed methods taught to them by their parents within the confines of their time periods. In George Saunders, “Puppy,” the mothers Marie and Callie mirror one another in parenting style and the story discretely

There is many questions on how to parent a child in order to help them be successful in life. Although parenting style various greatly, most all parents put into practice what regulations in which they think will help their child succeed in life. Some parents, known as Chinese parents are extremely strict, and on the other end of the spectrum there is western parents, who do not expect as much from their child. In Amy Chua’s “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom,” Chua explains what it is like to have Chinese parenting techniques. She attempts to justify the struggles, beliefs, and methods of Chinese parents, as compared to western parents, and how they both have the end goal - to prepare their child to succeed in life.

Over the years, the moral values of society has gradually been tainted by a history of desire for economic and social empowerment. What we have today is a result of mankind’s greedy everlasting chase after the materialistic, and like Abraham Polonsky once said, “money has no moral values”, so how can we expect to have any such values ourselves? This essay explores the extent to which uprising financial and social mobility conflict with Balram Halwai’s moral values in The White Tiger, in terms of family and religion, violence and sex, darkness and light and politics. Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger, an astounding novel with likewise literary value, tells the story of Balram Halwai, a poor sweet-maker turned ruthless businessman, depicting throughout