Analysis Of Tango Ao's 'On Discovery'

I read your text “On Discovery”, and I have some interpretations that I would like to share with you. I found your text very interesting and I was able to interpret it on a different level. I have noticed that in the text, you refer to Tango Ao as someone seeking to find the Gold Mountain. I believe that the Gold Mountain refers to Chinese immigrants who were searching for gold in California in the 1800s (“Searching for Gold Mountain”).
Based on my interpretations and the details of the text, I believe that the text is attempting to say that Tango Ao, accidentally came to the Land of Women. In my opinion I don’t think that this was his goal, instead, his destiny. He came upon a group of women who are strong and aggressive. One of the lines made me think that women were torturing him in many ways. Two old women said “The less you struggle, the less it’ll hurt” (Kingston 670). This quote to me symbolizes how he is tortured in the beginning, but the whole …show more content…
Then I research Gold Mountain and found an interesting story about Chines immigrants. Now the story kind of making sense. One thing that I have noticed in this story is you gave lot of details and those were imagery and plot but it was helpful and easy to understand what’s going on in the story. Kingston, I really like this story and more than the way you have set up this story make me feel interesting and mysterious.
Gold Mountain was considered as the “United States” to many Chinese individuals. This alone sets the tone of the story in my opinion. In the short story “On Discovery,” Tang Ao was a Chinese explorer trying to make his way to this luscious place. Like everybody, he dreamed of trying to get to Gold Mountain. The reason why many at this time was trying to come here was because of the huge amount of gold that it provided. However, Tang Ao unfortunately runs into the Land of Women and is taken in as