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Summary Of Why I Love My Strict Chinese Mom

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In the essay written in 2011 Called “Why I Love My Strict Chinese Mom” by Sophia Chua-Ruberfeld Chua-Rubenfled is trying to persuade readers that her mom is not as bad of parent as people think she is. She begins by saying her mother was strict but she was a great mom to her and her sister which made them grow up to be very successful people in life. She attended Harvard while her mother was a professor at Yale. Going to these types of universities, or being influence by them help her become a great writer like her mom. Chua-Rubenfeld use a balances between pathos, ethos and logos to persuade readers that her mother was a good parent.
Chua-Rubenfeld appeals to emotion (or pathos) through humor. She shows humor when she says to her mother in the letter that “every other Thursday you take off our chains and let us play math games in the basement” (60). She is trying to show here that maybe people are taking all this too seriously. Pathos can also be seen in Chua-Rubenfeld’s calm and reassuring tone and comments. She shows some empathy and understanding for her reader when she says that “the desire to live a meaningful life is universal” (60). When she says this, she is connecting herself to the reader. Also she uses pathos to relieve her …show more content…

She shows logos when she says “Funny how some people are convinced that Lulu and I are scarred for life” (60-61). She uses facts like this to persuade people to think why would she said that, but also showed the reader that she does not care what people think of them or either her mother because they don’t know what goes inside their house. She is glad to have a mother like her. She also uses logos in this essay when she says “A lot of people have accused you of producing robot kids who can’t think for themselves” (60). When she said this she was trying to show the reader her logic that this was not true. She was trying to show readers that her mother is a great mom and parent to her and her

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