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The Theme Of Freedom In David Foster Wallace's Battle Hymn Of The Tiger Mother

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David Foster Wallace talks about in his “Kenyon Commandment Speech” that learning is an open mind process and are you willing to change the way you think and act to better you self. As Wallace talks about achieving total freedom through learning and open mindedness of one self. In Amy Chua’s “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother” Talks about being a strict Chinese mother in the west and teaching her children to exceed in everything they do. As she begins to find freedom through teaching her children strictness and discipline. The theme between Amy Chu and David Foster Wallace speech is that both have a theme of freedom. They both have same definition what freedom is to them. The definition of freedom is different for everybody. The way David Foster …show more content…

Chua sates “But most of me feels tremendous gratitude for freedom and creative opportunity that America had given me” (Chua 22). Knowing that she did not fined freedom through Wallace’s definition of freedom, she also saying that she found freedom thought the opportunity’s that America has given her, that she wouldn’t be able to accomplish on her own if her family hadn’t moved here. As Wallace would think finding freedom would mean finding it through education and learning as Wallace’s states “This, I submit, is the freedom of a real education, of learning how to be well adjusted” (Wallace 207). Here Wallace is describing yet another type of freedom that he describes in his speech that learning is process to re-adjusting the way you think. David foster Wallace “Kenyon commandment speech” and Amy Chua Battle of The Tiger Mother. Both show different meanings and expressions of the definition of freedom in their own way. That you have to look in a new perspective the way people perceive there ideas of what is freedom. That Amy Chua shows her freedom through being a strict Chinese mother by sacrificing everything she has done and learned, for her children. David Foster Wallace shows freedom through multiple accounts in his speech. I have learned

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