Amy Chauu Instrument

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Amy Chau does everything for a reason, even if it is as trivial as picking out an instrument for her children to play. She is a very straightforward, single-minded individual who has a specific ideology for everything she chooses to do. As she states on page 45, “I believed that the only way for Lulu to get out from under the shadow of her high-performing sister was to play an even more difficult, more virtuosic instrument. That’s why I chose the violin.” Her reasoning for picking the violin for Lulu and piano for Sophia was she believed in raising her children the Chinese way, which meant classical music. Also, her children should refrain from playing the same instrument for it would induce competition. Another reason she picked these classical

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