I grew up in a three bedroom apartment on the north side of Chicago with six of my family members. My grandmother was an immigrant that came to Chicago with her four children (including my mother) to find a job that would give her and her children a better life, because in the world, money means power and happiness. When I was born, my family told me that I needed to do well in school, go to college, and become rich so I could take care of the rest of my family. They said that my mother was supposed to do that but she got pregnant and started working full time to support me, her siblings, and her mother all at the age of twenty. My family never had much money growing up and at the time I didn’t mind it that much, at the time I didn’t realize
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Her parents have the same reason for coming to America as most immigrants throughout history do: to find a better job and become a little wealthier. Her parents expected a better and easier life in America, instead they became farmers that do a backbreaking labor everyday. Her mother talks about how in China, she could have been a doctor, had an easy job, and would still be beautiful. However in America, no one would trust her opinion as a doctor because she’s an immigrant. This story shows how in Hong Kingston’s era, people still thought that coming to America and making money would grant happiness but in her mother’s case, staying in China would have been the better …show more content…
It gives these real people emotions like greed and desire. One of the characters in the play is Abigail Williams who tries to kill her former lover, John Proctor’s, wife with magic under the delusion that she’ll be able to marry him once his wife is dead. When she is caught, she starts to accuse various people in Salem to keep attention away from her. Abigail causes mass distrust and paranoia to spread throughout the town. The trials end with nineteen people dead, including John Proctor. This play demonstrates how Abigail’s desire for love and status (since marrying Proctor will also raise her social status in Salem) drives her to do disastrous things that affect the entire town in an extremely negative way but in the end, she still doesn’t get what she
Her parents have the same reason for coming to America as most immigrants throughout history do: to find a better job and become a little wealthier. Her parents expected a better and easier life in America, instead they became farmers that do a backbreaking labor everyday. Her mother talks about how in China, she could have been a doctor, had an easy job, and would still be beautiful. However in America, no one would trust her opinion as a doctor because she’s an immigrant. This story shows how in Hong Kingston’s era, people still thought that coming to America and making money would grant happiness but in her mother’s case, staying in China would have been the better …show more content…
It gives these real people emotions like greed and desire. One of the characters in the play is Abigail Williams who tries to kill her former lover, John Proctor’s, wife with magic under the delusion that she’ll be able to marry him once his wife is dead. When she is caught, she starts to accuse various people in Salem to keep attention away from her. Abigail causes mass distrust and paranoia to spread throughout the town. The trials end with nineteen people dead, including John Proctor. This play demonstrates how Abigail’s desire for love and status (since marrying Proctor will also raise her social status in Salem) drives her to do disastrous things that affect the entire town in an extremely negative way but in the end, she still doesn’t get what she