Catfish And Mandala Essay

According to some, “Ego means Self-Identification with thinking to be trapped in thought which means to have a mental imagine of “me” based on thought and emotions. So ego is there in the absence of a witnessing presence.” (Eckhart Tolle). Soul searching and self-identification are definitions of phases every one of us experiences while going through life. I believe that many of us have had that certain memory playback whether it is driving along the street we grew up on or certain places we remember going to as kids we can’t help but think of the memories we once went through the good and the bad memories they still play back in our minds. It all starts with the memories and the things we have gone through shape us into the person we are today. Our memories become a reflection of who we are it defines us. In the book Catfish and Mandala written by Andrew X. Pham goes on a soul searching journey to find his inner self, his true identity. His native country in Vietnam and his homeland in California lies his cultural identity that he is searching for. I would like to discuss how his memories have shaped him into the person he is by getting an understanding of the main character also knows as the author.
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Very passionate. “I have left everyone I loved. I’ve failed people I loved.” (Pham 134). This quote shows how caring Pham is. He shows signs of being kind-hearted. He even admits to being compassionate when he stumbles across the conditions of the way that many are living and how hard it is for those people. He states that "I have a wild urge to marry them all, take them to America, give them American citizenship, and tell them they will never have to walk barefoot on hot asphalt again." (Pham