Jing Mei Woo: Two Kinds

A person with a mother-son relationship is as knowledgeable about mother-daughter relationships as a cat is on how dog food tastes. Nonetheless, any young man can assume that a mother-daughter relationship is swell and lovely until a disagreement arises. “The Violin” in Amy Chua’s 2010 memoir Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom is about raising two daughters in what Chua identifies as “the Chinese Way.” While “Jing Mei Woo: Two Kinds” in Amy Tan’s 1989 novel The Joy Luck Club is about a young woman(Tan) recalling growing up in San Francisco as the child of Chinese immigrant parents. Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom by Amy Chua and Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan are as similar in theme as one and one are in numerical value but polar opposites in the tone of

In “Jing Mei Woo:Two Kinds”, the mother-daughter relationship reminds me of the relationship Neil from Dead Poet’s Society had with his father. Neil had expressed his interest in acting and Neal’s father shut Neal down describing how schoolwork is more important than being apart of the drama club. Tan’s mother wants Tan to be a certain way without thinking of how it makes Tan feel, “You want me to be something that I’m not!” I sobbed. “I’ll never be the kind of daughter you want me to be!”(Tan 141-142). After Tan speaks her mind about that, she feels like that is the time to really let her mother know how she feels. And she does so by making an insensitive comment about her deceased, baby siblings, “ Then I wish I’d never been born!” I shouted. “I wish I were dead! Like them! ”(Tan 141-142. After those things were said, Tan’s mother “went blank, her mouth closed, her arms went slack, and she backed out of the room, stunned, as if she were blowing away like a small brown leaf, thin, brittle, lifeless.”( Tan 141-142). After those events occurred, the tone can be identified as disrespectful and