The Violin Poem Analysis

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Every mother-daughter relationships can be either strong or weak. In the excerpt “The Violin” Amy Chua shows how her relationship with her daughter is very close and connected, but in times of stress it can become cold tense. While in the excerpt “Jing-Mei Woo: Two Kinds” Amy Tan’s relationship with her mom is very distant and there is a lot of angst between the two. In Chua’s excerpt she uses a very stressful tone because there is a very tense presence since Lulu screams “RELAX!” (Chua 47-48), while her mom watches her practice her violin. From Chua’s perspective she sees herself as a mom who cares for daughter and has high hopes for her to play the violin all the way to be a professional, but from Lulu’s perspective she sees her mom as a stress bringer or something that brings stress into her life instead …show more content…

This is because from Tan’s point of view, her being the daughter, her mother is very either abusive or very conceited about how her daughter should act or what she needs to be later on in life. In the quote, “...yanked me by the arm and pulled me off the off the floor… She had lifted me onto the hard bench… her mouth was open, smiling crazily as if she were pleased that i was crying.”(Tan 141-142), she is trying to visualize that her mother is making her do stuff that she does not want to do. Tan fights back with, “Then I wish I weren’t your daughter, I wish you weren’t my mother,”(Tan 141-142), showing how she wishes that she does not want to be the daughter of someone who will beat them for not wanting to be something that they are not. After her mother was done taking a few more stabs at Tan she finally ends it with, “Then I wish I’d never been born!” I shouted. “I wish I were dead! Like them”(Tan 141-142), when Tan says “them” she is referring to the babies that her mom lost earlier in her life. She had finally won against her mother which relieved some of the pain and angst between

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