Compare And Contrast Ruby And Clifton

Life

Years and years passed and the family was about to be able to head to the land of freedom. They waited in the long lines just like everyone else trying to leave their home. The country was a bad country the family just wanted to have the American dream like how everyone else wished for. You see the place where the family was born in a second world country where there was a lot of poverty. One day they got a letter and was able to leave the country. The family was ready for the land called America for years they learned their language English so they could speak to the Americans. The day it all happened the family got on a plane for the first time. The company that helped the Yun family so much gave them a little apartment in San Francisco …show more content…
One thing was different for the family people were different there was low class, middle class, and high class. Something the family was never used to living in a communist country most of their lives. Ruby and Clifton learned that this country is different and that the rich worked hard to get the money they have but mother said they are not better than you so never think that. On a Sunday afternoon the family took the two children for a walk and said that their mother was sick. The family cried and enjoyed the time they had left with her. The family did not have enough money to treat her …show more content…
Clifton stayed strong and Ruby friend and her mother said come here I want to give you something it was her copper lotus flower necklace. In their culture they believed the lotus flower gives you strength and purity. Ruby took it and watched her mother close her eyes and say goodbye. Years have passed and Clifton was twenty two and becoming what his mother has always wanted for him to become a lawyer. The sad part was that Ruby was still stuck with her father because she was sixteen her father started drinking after his spouses death. Years passed Ruby still had her mother's necklace on but her brother had passed from a car crash and her father passed away of old age. Ruby packed up her things and went to New York the place her mother always wanted to go to. Ruby finally sat down one day and wrote a book about the fight and struggle of coming to