Analyse af Sophia Chuas brev om 'Tiger Mom'

Sophia wants to respond the critics and offenders on her mother’s method of raising her daughters.

Because her mother has received death threats for her comments and one of critics says that her mother is “the worst mother ever”. Sophia wants to show the world that her mother’s way of raising them is the best way and her mother achieves successful, because she had raised an independent and a strong daughter. She wants to say thank you to her mother and she is grateful for her mother “And for that, Tiger Mom, thank you."

Who are the direct and indirect recipients?

I think the direct recipients are the daughter, because the have the benefit by raising them in this way. They are strong, independent, happy, fulfilled, and they have self-confidence.

The indirect recipients are the tiger-parents, who have the daughter, who live their parents and their family.

What actions and values is she defending?

Value of family love and enjoying of family time “No outsider can know what our family is really like. They don’t hear us cracking up over each other's jokes…….. They don't know how much fun we have when the six of us - dogs included - squeeze into one bed and argue about what movies to download from Netflix.”