Men and women have always been perceived differently by their gender in any culture. With some cultures men do not have to face imperfection. Those same cultures women do have to face imperfection. With Asian culture women are devalued. With this culture they tend to only have one child. In the Suicide Note by Janice Mirikitani, she talks about a young Asian American college student that felt like a failure and a disappointment to her parents. Many notes were written to her parents explaining that she felt she was not good enough. That she felt she was a failure and a disappointment. She tried her best to get that grade point average, but still not smart enough. Then she wonders if she was a son would her life be better or if she would be worthy
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Each child wants their parents to be proud of their work. With this student is was important for her parents to be proud of her since she was a daughter not a son. So, she concluded it was best for her to end her life. She was not strong enough to keep living with the disappointment of her parents. She wanted so badly to be worthy in their eyes. As the student opens the dorm window of her room, she sees that it is snowing steadily. She notices it’s not good weather for her to be jumping out the window, but is not strong enough to face her parent’s disappointment. She is sitting on the ledge of her dorm window, she starts confessing her problems with such sorrow. “I make this ledge my altar/ to offer penance”. (line 42-43) Crying heavily the student decides to jump from her dorm window of her room feeling the rush of the air passing her by as the air cannot hold her up before her body lands on the ground. Her broken body laying on the soft white snow, as the snow is continuing to fall with the apology letter to her parents. There were a bunch of shredded letters around her body with the ink starting to smear due to the snow. “Perhaps when they find me/ they will bury/ my bird bones beneath/ a sturdy pine/ and scatter my feathers like/ unspoken son/ over this white and cold silent/ breast of earth”. (line 56-63) When they find the student few days later, she hopes they bury her tiny bone body under a strong pine tree. Then scatter her ashes like a song without words over the white cold snow on top of the ground in
Each child wants their parents to be proud of their work. With this student is was important for her parents to be proud of her since she was a daughter not a son. So, she concluded it was best for her to end her life. She was not strong enough to keep living with the disappointment of her parents. She wanted so badly to be worthy in their eyes. As the student opens the dorm window of her room, she sees that it is snowing steadily. She notices it’s not good weather for her to be jumping out the window, but is not strong enough to face her parent’s disappointment. She is sitting on the ledge of her dorm window, she starts confessing her problems with such sorrow. “I make this ledge my altar/ to offer penance”. (line 42-43) Crying heavily the student decides to jump from her dorm window of her room feeling the rush of the air passing her by as the air cannot hold her up before her body lands on the ground. Her broken body laying on the soft white snow, as the snow is continuing to fall with the apology letter to her parents. There were a bunch of shredded letters around her body with the ink starting to smear due to the snow. “Perhaps when they find me/ they will bury/ my bird bones beneath/ a sturdy pine/ and scatter my feathers like/ unspoken son/ over this white and cold silent/ breast of earth”. (line 56-63) When they find the student few days later, she hopes they bury her tiny bone body under a strong pine tree. Then scatter her ashes like a song without words over the white cold snow on top of the ground in