Both mothers in Amy Tan’s story Trading Motherhood for Dollars and Crisanta Sampang’s article Two Kinds share a fairly similar purpose in life that most parents can agree on.
It is the responsibility of a parent to welcome their child into a safe environment, along with having an open-mind to your child’s forthcoming actions and beliefs. Crisanta Sampang became a maid in Singapore deliberately to achieve a grander life for her three daughters; Maricel, Maricar and Catherine. Unknowingly, she went against her promise to never let her children down, and ironically history repeated itself. The childhood of both Sampang and her three children is more or less identical as her parents also sent her away at a young age. Maricel, the eldest daughter,
It is the responsibility of a parent to welcome their child into a safe environment, along with having an open-mind to your child’s forthcoming actions and beliefs. Crisanta Sampang became a maid in Singapore deliberately to achieve a grander life for her three daughters; Maricel, Maricar and Catherine. Unknowingly, she went against her promise to never let her children down, and ironically history repeated itself. The childhood of both Sampang and her three children is more or less identical as her parents also sent her away at a young age. Maricel, the eldest daughter,