Joy Luck Club--Motherhood writing

     I think that there are many similarities and connections between the motherhood in the Joy Luck Club, and the article, Tigher Mom. First of all, both of the authors are Amy Tam. In the Article, Tigher Mom, Amy was saying how strict her mother was-- to push her to become genius in everything, and doesn't allow her to watch too much TV, and hang out with people outside too much. This made Amy feel like she does not have any freedom in her life.
    And in Third Chapter of the Book, The Joy Luck Club, all the stories express how hard the mothers push oh their daughters. For examples, like Waverly, her mom forces her to be good at playing chess which she does not like that at all. She thinks her mom requests too much on her, and gives up her chess after having many chess tournaments. Waverly has too much pleasures from her mother, which makes her gave up everything she wants to gain from playing chess. Just like the article, Amy's mom pushed Amy to learn everything and also had to be good. This kind of pleasure finally leds to the end of Waverly's chess life.
   However, not all of the pleasure is unnessary. Motherhood always has more personal-experiences than the daughters since they are older. Therefore, the motherhood always see things that are dangerous before they happen in the book. Like in the story of "Rice Husband", Lena's mom always notices things are going wrong, but she never give protentions because she wants her daughter, Lena, to learn something by her failures. Many bad things happen to Lena, which struggle her a lot, but anyway, the experiences that the motherhood has should be considered by the daughters sometimes.