Feathers From A Thousand Li Away is about a woman who goes to America for a better life for her daughter. Her daughter becomes very Americanized and gains respect but can only speak english and her mother cannot. The Joy Luck Club is about a girl taking over her mothers position in a club that she had started. Her mother started the club back in China to get away from the outside world and have fun and relax. However, her mother thought of her daughter as a failure and they did not get along very well.
After she moved to the city and become an educated and sophisticated, young woman, she wrote to her mom that she would always visit, “but will never bring her friends” (Walker 3). She doesn’t want her friends to know the real conditions of living that her family have and the backward way of life they live. She grasps the African tradition and culture, yet, fails to acknowledge her own African American culture. Dee is misconstruing her heritage as material goods as opposed to her ancestor’s habits and way of life. When she informs her mother and Maggie that she has changed her name, she states, “I couldn’t bear it any longer, being named after the people who oppress me” (Walker 4).
My oldest sister is now 24 years old, married, and a mother of a 1-year-old boy. When she graduated from Bravo Medical Magnet High School she found herself a job at Bank of America. During that time she felt that being in work was right for her because she was receiving money and wanted to buy a car. Her reason for stopping school was not because she wanted to be “freed” from it but because she believed working was a better path for her to take. My second oldest sister was never a big fan of school.
Shirley Temple Wong is a young girl, a girl whom never loses her connection of her birth. When she had to move she missed her cousins, aunt, uncle and grandparents. Some how Shirley managed to tie together her love of her past life in China and the present life Shirley is now living in Brooklyn. Shirley had to go to school in Brooklyn; Shirley also tried to fir in with the other girls in her class room. Shirley was feeling very lonely, because Shirley thought she wasn’t going to have anyone to talk to.
I wanted to go every place she had ever been”. (Kidd, 14-15) Lily is very connected with her mother even though she is no longer living. Knowing about her mother would help Lily come to peace with the subject of her mother’s death and her own past. However, Rosaleen, Lily’s nanny thinks otherwise. Rosaleen believes that Lily should just leave the topic alone and that she may discover something she just does not want to know.
Da-Duh considers her culture to be the only way to live, the right way to live. When her granddaughter shed light on a new lifestyle, Da-Duh became stubborn as a result of an internal conflict with change. Her defense mechanism automatically triggered anger because she is in a position where she has the option of going along with her granddaughter or retreating back to the comfort of her old life and customs. When Da-Duh asked her granddaughter if she had anything quite as tall as the palm trees in New York, she responds that there are much taller skyscrapers. Da-Duh is extremely vexed because her previous conceptions of her culture’s superiority were just proven wrong.
They learn how they shouldn’t Jem and Scout live in a time where it was important for children to be mature. Many people such as her proper Aunt Alexandra wants Scout to mature and become more like a lady. At first, Scout tries extremely hard to fight the maturing stage that was coming upon her. However, little by little, Scout Finch is becoming more mature. Scout refuses it, yet she is becoming more and more mature throughout TKMB by Harper Lee.
Much of the Chinese values moved with them to America. In the movie Mulan, all the parents want for their daughter, Mulan, is to bring honor to the family. But Mulan is not your typical Chinese girl; she has her own opinions, and can’t hide who she really is. (Mulan) In the story “Two Kinds”, Jing-mei’s mother and father want her to be a prodigy in order to make a life for herself. At first Jing-mei liked the idea, but after all of her attempts and fails she wanted to live a normal American life.
The poem begins with the perspective of the sister in China as she describes the tradition of her people and the adaptations they have made. After some brief background into the Chinese culture, Song moves to focus on the relationship between the speaker and her sister. “And the daughters were grateful: They never left home. To move freely was a luxury stolen from them at birth” (Song); Song uses these lines to describe the realities that come with living in China and the idea that one may never actually leave to discover America. In the first part of the poem Song conveys that the life lived in China is not a glorious one.
In our article, the little girl has to be returned back to her birth parents against her will when she is 9 years old. This is a person who has only know her foster parents and consider them her real parents. She doesn't know her birth parents and is now being made to live with them. If we didn't apply rules based ethics and used care based ethics, the girl and the family may get what they want. The parents may have gotten clean but that doesn't mean they know how to be parents 9 years