" For example, my Western friends who consider themselves strict make their children practice their instruments 30 minutes every day. An hour at most. For a Chinese mother, the first hour is the easy part. It's hours two and three that get tough."A similarity between Tan and Chua is that in The Joy Luck Club, The Twenty- Six Malignant Gates, tells hoe Suyuan wants her daughter to become a prodigy. She wanted her daughter to be really good at playing the piano and that was why she made her practice on the piano all the time for hours a day, piano lessons and piano practice… to practice on every day, two hours a day, from four until six.” (136). This relates to Amy Chua's arguments because she states that the best way for their children to get better at something is to practice at it for many hours.
Obedience plays a difference between Tan and Chua. Chua states that,
"Second, Chinese parents believe that their kids owe them everything... parents have sacrificed and done so much for their children. (And it's true that Chinese mothers get in the trenches, putting in long grueling hours personally tutoring, training, interrogating and spying on their kids.) Anyway, the understanding is that Chinese children must spend their lives repaying their parents by obeying them and making them proud."The difference between Amy Chua's argument and the mother-daughter relationship between Suyuan Woo and her daughter June Woo was that the daughter had given up trying to make her mother proud, and that was also the day she decided to be disobedient,
"I didn't bulge. And then I decided. I didn't have to do what my mother said anymore. I wasn't her slave. This wasn't China. I had listened to her before and look what happened. She was the stupid one," (141).Chua believes that Chinese children owe everything back to their parents and that they must try to make thir parents proud for the rest of their lives. Amy Tan contradicts this because June disappointed her mother and gave up trying to make her proud and became disobedient.
