Letter of Advice to Brave Orchid, Kingston’s Mother
Brave Orchid is a sister of Moon Orchid and a mother of Kingston, the narrator of the book. Like her name, she is brave and tough. She is an independent woman, a mother, a sister, a storyteller, and a doctor. She has been through the war and survived. Although she is great in many ways, I feel like she is both demanding and her understanding of how American works and the people around her are still a little too traditional.
It is understandable that Brave Orchid is demanding of her children as a mother. She has been through war and traveled thousands of miles away from her hometown into the United States of America. Even the book introduces us with Brave Orchid demanding “You must not tell anyone”(Kingston, 3), and she goes on and said “Don’t tell anyone you had an aunt”(Kingston, 15). Although it is good that she taught her kids lesson and wants them to be good, but she did them through demanding and ordering. Being demanding will not do any good. It’s good to discipline your kid but it must be through love and support as well. Not just through anger and yelling.
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She doesn’t understand her sister Moon Orchid, who also came to the United States, 30 years after Brave Orchid. A lot of things change if it has been 30 years. The first thing she does when she saw Moon Orchid was push her to find her husband, who happened to left her in China. Even when Moon Orchid said she didn't want to and wanted to rest, Brave Orchid continue to pushed her into finding her husband. Like it has mentioned in the book, Brave Orchid had never been on the plane so she didn't understand Moon Orchid when she told her that she “want to go to sleep early because of jet lag”(Kingston, 124). SO she continued to push and asked Moon Orchid to do the stuff she was capable
Brave Orchid is a sister of Moon Orchid and a mother of Kingston, the narrator of the book. Like her name, she is brave and tough. She is an independent woman, a mother, a sister, a storyteller, and a doctor. She has been through the war and survived. Although she is great in many ways, I feel like she is both demanding and her understanding of how American works and the people around her are still a little too traditional.
It is understandable that Brave Orchid is demanding of her children as a mother. She has been through war and traveled thousands of miles away from her hometown into the United States of America. Even the book introduces us with Brave Orchid demanding “You must not tell anyone”(Kingston, 3), and she goes on and said “Don’t tell anyone you had an aunt”(Kingston, 15). Although it is good that she taught her kids lesson and wants them to be good, but she did them through demanding and ordering. Being demanding will not do any good. It’s good to discipline your kid but it must be through love and support as well. Not just through anger and yelling.
Just because you breed a girl and not boy, doesn't mean the girl is a …show more content…
She doesn’t understand her sister Moon Orchid, who also came to the United States, 30 years after Brave Orchid. A lot of things change if it has been 30 years. The first thing she does when she saw Moon Orchid was push her to find her husband, who happened to left her in China. Even when Moon Orchid said she didn't want to and wanted to rest, Brave Orchid continue to pushed her into finding her husband. Like it has mentioned in the book, Brave Orchid had never been on the plane so she didn't understand Moon Orchid when she told her that she “want to go to sleep early because of jet lag”(Kingston, 124). SO she continued to push and asked Moon Orchid to do the stuff she was capable