Chinese Girl

I just kept nodding while she kept indoctrinating me, until I got to my stop. That day, after I arrived my host home, I shared this experience with my host family and complained about how terrible and ignorant racists were. My hostess, a smart Chinese immigrant said after sighing, “There are still a lot of people who discriminate African Americans. They are sometimes very extreme, or even dangerous, but that does not necessarily mean they shot people when others disagree. Words can sometimes…

When I was a little child, I was the loner. At lunch, I was rejected by the other girls and ate at the boys’ table. At recess, I would sit on the swings by myself. In short, I was the loser of my school. At the start of seventh grade, I was given a second chance at a social life when we moved. Things did not go well from the start. In fact, it felt like a repeat of my early years. I remember on my first day, one boy, Johnny, who would later make my life hell, greeted me with “konichiwa” even…

sets them up on dates and gains profit from them. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, annually a pimp is able to make between $150,000 to $200,000 a year if he trafficks between 4 and 6 girls which is the average. With each pimp in the united states doing this, they generate about 9.5 billion a year. The relationship between these pimps and prostitutes are clearly unhealthy. Since the pimp wants to be in control of the…

Esperanza slowly blossoms from an innocent child into a mature young woman. Some of the major ethnic elements that greatly impact the story are the culture, mindset, and tradition of her people when concerning women. For example, in the story, many girls who Esperanza shares…

behavior, not a type of human being or lifestyle(65).” If I was to go home and tell my mother I liked girls, it would be detrimental. It is considered an evil to a lot of old and new school people who are homophobic. The thought of liking the same sex has ruined families and caused rifts in between family members. Such as it does in the relationship between mother and daughter in Kitty Tsui’s poem A Chinese Banquet. In the poem the narrator says to her mother, “tell her, mother I’m gay, mother…

groups. Moninaaa, Moninaaa… yielded my mom, a short beautiful woman with a sweet voice that any person would like to listen. I heard her so far, far, far as light fades. She always was worried and pending about me, due to the fact that, I was a naughty girl, who was invented at any time damn ideas. Those are some of my childhood memories, but I will never forget the fall that changed my personality forever and tattooed in my body that painful moment, that markable day. I have always lived…

Amy Tan’s “Two Kinds” is a short story that was written in 1989, that outlines the difficulties with a mother and daughter relationship. A young girl name Jing-Mei Woo who is the main character in the story was a vulnerable nine-year-old girl living in a home with her mother and father. Jing-Mei deals with the high potentials of her mother, to become a genius. After losing everything in China, her mother moved to America for a better living. Jing-Mei shares her mother’s thoughts about America on…

There were still gaps, people he knew existed but he couldn’t quite remember, like the girl that had wrote on his cast, and her father at the pharmacy, his teachers handing out grade cards and talk of Stan’s Bar Mitzvah and the same voice, “The rabbi’s going to pull down his pants and shout, ‘Where’s the penis?’” and where it should have…

Although her name has a positive meaning, Esperanza does have conflicted feelings about her name. Part of this reason deals with the fact that it was also her great-grandmother’s name. Her great-grandmother, just like Esperanza, was born in the Chinese year of the horse. A year that, when you’re a female, is supposed to be a bad omen since there is a dislike for women who are strong. This is important because she later explains how her, “wild horse of a woman”, great-grandmother only married…

A memoir is a great example of this when it comes to using many literary elements that explain the author 's theme. Anything the author writes in literature has a purpose and it should be accounted for no matter what. The author of the book is a Chinese woman whose name is Maxine Hong Kingston and her book is a memoir. This book is essentially about the author’s life in America and she uses elements of literature throughout her book to explain events that occurred. Kingston uses many literary…