Tony Nguyen Character Analysis

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Tony Nguyen is a hard-worker. He will sacrifice his time to make things improve in order to create change and he doesn’t realized all the things he is doing but I notice all the work had put in. He just do things that is right in his head and Tony does not want reward but his satisfaction. His hard work came a long way, he was an immigrant, coming from Vietnam during the spread of communism.
In fact, Tony is determined to get any task done even if it was difficult to overcome. He is a good man and he never ashamed of what he is doing even if others put him down in public.
Some people just put labels on my dad because he is Asian and that he does not know how to speak English but that didn’t stop my father.
My father came a long way, his struggle at Vietnam with my mom was bad because she was pregnant with my older sister
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So my father had to work more late night shifts and early shift and barely get more sleep, so my father caught the flu and is badly ill. His sickness is also a struggle because Tony is sacrifice his time and health so my siblings and I could go to college. The sickness he has is unknown to my siblings and I, he doesn’t want to tell us what he has because he doesn’t us to worry about it and wants to handle it on his own. He told us just to focus on school and to support him later. After a while, I notice his legs are going bad but yet he is still going.
I am lucky for such a wonderful role model while growing up. My father’s determination and strength rubbed off him to me. His stories would always motivate me to push for his dream which is now mine to have that AMERICAN DREAM. His struggle is my success in the future. My father has always had a strong sense of where he was going and what he wanted us to do in the future. So I believe my father will be prepared for anything in the future. My goal in life is to finish my father’s dream…the American

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