The Article, “Hungry Venezuelans Flee in Boats to Escape Economic Collapse” by Nicholas Casey, where he writes about how the economic collapse in Venezuela caused many families to forget all about their life there and how this forced them to flee their land. This can be compared to the time June’s mother Suyuan Woo had to leave China during the height of World War II. It was during those times that the economy was severely affected which forced people to do drastic decisions which they normally wouldn't do. Like the Venezuelans crisis, thousands of families were affected and had to migrant to more stable countries.
What occurs in the life of Suyuan Woo is that when she was younger, an army officer came to her house early one morning to warn …show more content…
Clair tells the story from her youth, when she unknowingly sacrificed ten years of her life by leaving her home and living in her cousin's rundown cottage as punishment. Ying Ying was very upset with herself for killing her first born child due to her need for “revenge” after her first husband had left her. After she had seen what she had done, she inflicted a punishment upon herself by leaving her home and her rich family to live with her second-cousin’s in a house that she knew was very rundown. She says. “The house was shabby, crowded with three families. It was not a comfort to be there, and that is what I wanted.” Later, she continues to describe the terrible living conditions of the house by saying things, like, “And the flies! IF you left a bowl with even a few grains of rice, you wouldn’t find it covered with hungry flies so thick it looked like a living bowl of black bean soup.” Although she did live with some cousins, keep in mind that Ying Ying did do the most honorably thing she could have possible done to punish herself, I feel there really was no reason to sacrifice that much of her life. This was when she was eighteen, so she lived there until she was twentyeight. This to most people is considered to be the time where you have the best years of your life, and she sacrificed it as
What occurs in the life of Suyuan Woo is that when she was younger, an army officer came to her house early one morning to warn …show more content…
Clair tells the story from her youth, when she unknowingly sacrificed ten years of her life by leaving her home and living in her cousin's rundown cottage as punishment. Ying Ying was very upset with herself for killing her first born child due to her need for “revenge” after her first husband had left her. After she had seen what she had done, she inflicted a punishment upon herself by leaving her home and her rich family to live with her second-cousin’s in a house that she knew was very rundown. She says. “The house was shabby, crowded with three families. It was not a comfort to be there, and that is what I wanted.” Later, she continues to describe the terrible living conditions of the house by saying things, like, “And the flies! IF you left a bowl with even a few grains of rice, you wouldn’t find it covered with hungry flies so thick it looked like a living bowl of black bean soup.” Although she did live with some cousins, keep in mind that Ying Ying did do the most honorably thing she could have possible done to punish herself, I feel there really was no reason to sacrifice that much of her life. This was when she was eighteen, so she lived there until she was twentyeight. This to most people is considered to be the time where you have the best years of your life, and she sacrificed it as