“The Rules of the Game” by Amy Tan is about Waverly Jong. Her mother taught her the art of the invisible force when she was six years old, saying that she is a strategy to win arguments and respect.At Christmas Waverly and her brothers received gifts from the donations of members of another church Waverly convinced her brothers, Winston and Vincent, to let her play chess by offering two of her missing lifesavers as replacements. Waverly began playing with Lau Po, an old man who played chess in the park Waverly began to attract attention due to her young age and became a celebrity within the Chinatown community forcing her to go to the market with her, introducing her in all the shops. An exasperated Waverly scolded her mother on the street, telling her that she was embarrassed by her constant boasting. The theme of “The Rules of the Game” is the dynamic relationship between mother and daughter story about the dynamics of the relationship between mother and daughter is at the beginning of the story, when Waverly was teasing her mother by telling her that a boy in her class said that Chinese torture people. Then her mother got angry and told Waverly that they do everything and the best thing is to torture people. "One day, while struggling to weave a hard-toothed comb through my disobedient hair, I had a devious thought. , What is Chinese torture?" My mother shook her head... "Who says that word?" he asked leaving no trace of knowing how evil I was. I shrugged and said, "A boy in my class said Chinese people do Chinese torture." "The Chinese do many things," he said simply... middle of paper... difficult relationship between mothers and daughters, but this time Tan's focus is narrower and more intense: not the octet of characters and narratives in The Joy Luck Club but a single story encompassing a lineage of three women" (Gray http://www.time.com). In conclusion, all of my book reviews and articles demonstrate that the The relationship dynamic between mother and daughter is a major theme in The Rule of the Game. Works Cited 1) Moore, Dolores http://www.helium.com/items/1169129-book-review-the-joy-luck-club-amy- tan -19892) Nadeau, Frances Ahttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ALAN/winter95/Nadeau.html3) Solomon, Andrewhttp://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/16/books/review / 16solomon.html?_r=1&ref=bookreviews4) Gray, Paulhttp://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2047321,00.html4) Wright, BWright, B. Introduction to Literature.Boston,2011