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Once upon a time, there was a little 

girl named Waverly Jong. Waverly 

was a Chinese-American girl who's 

mother came to America from China. 

Very early on in her life, Waverly 

learns how to play chess from a man 

at the park by her house. She gets 

very good at chess and wins a lot of 

competitions. 

Waverly is very smart, with 

some people even saying she is 

a genius. Her ability to play 

chess has made her   known as 

a child prodigy. Her mother 

enjoys Waverly's new found 

fame and tends to push her 

very hard.

This is a very common problem 

today. Parents start pushing their 

kids at a very young age, sometimes 

as young as 9 or 10, to become a 

very good at something. This could 

be sports, musical instruments, 

acting, etc. This is known as extra 

curricular activity child abuse.

One example of this is Michael 

Jackson. Michael and the rest of the 

Jackson children were pushed by 

their father Joe at a very young age 

to be the next big thing in music. 

This is because Joe always wanted 

to be a famous musician and 

couldn't. 

This constant control affected 

Michael a lot, as we can see by the 

some of the problems he 

developed later on in life. Such as 

his abnormal attraction to young 

children. These problems stayed 

with him until the day that he 

died. 

Waverly does not like her 

mother pushing her this hard 

and tends to be stubborn 

towards her mother. She is 

also very sneaky and this gets 

her into some trouble with her 

mom. 

As Waverly gets older, she 

tends to blame a lot of her 

problems and shortcomings on 

her mother. She also refuses to 

take her mother's advice most 

of the time. 

Waverly and her mother argue a 

lot about cultural issues. Most of 

their arguments are centered 

around the fact that Waverly shows 

no interest in acting Chinese. She 

also knows very little about being 

Chinese which she proves by 

asking her mother, "Ma, what is 

Chinese torture?" (Tan 91)

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