“Facing Poverty With a Rich Girl’s Habit Kelly Knue English 115 April 18, 2015 Professor Trammell “Facing Poverty With a Rich Girl’s Habits” I have chosen to write about the essay “Facing Poverty with a Rich Girl’s Habits”, by Suki Kim. This essay is about a very wealthy young girl who lost almost everything overnight. Suki describes all of the new obstacles she has to endure and overcome. All of these changes basically came about just so her father would not have to serve jail time for going bankrupt which is a strict law in South Korea. In South Korea, she lived famously in a mansion.
I have chosen to read and discuss “Facing Poverty with a Rich Girl’s Habits” that was written by Suki Kim a Korean immigrant and now American citizen. This essay was a very interesting piece that pulled at my heart strings. I say this because I am originally from Astoria Queens, New York and could truly relate to what Suki Kim transmitted in this essay. I believe the most important point of this essay was Suki Kim’s realization that she was no longer a rich and spoiled child living in her native land, but a poor immigrant girl living in a foreign borough. I think Ms. Kim may have experienced “culture shock” when she arrived to Queens and realized this was not a dream, but her horrible reality.
Patricia Harris ENG115 6/23/2013 Patricia Harris ENG115 6/23/2013 (Image provided by New York Times, 2004) (Image provided by New York Times, 2004) Professor Jeanette Trammell Professor Jeanette Trammell Facing Poverty with a Rich Girl’s Habits Facing Poverty with a Rich Girl’s Habits Facing Poverty with a Rich Girl’s Habits From peacocks to pigeons, Suki Kim tells her story about what it was like going from riches to rags. Her family forced to move to America, out of South Korea, she explains in detail how she “Faces Poverty with a Rich Girls Habits” (Kim, 2011). From maids to Laundromat’s, Kim was thirteen in the early 80’s when her family moved from their mansion to the upstairs portion of a two family brownstone. Public transportation now carried her to school instead of a chauffeur. Her living arrangements were not her only challenges; she also attended a public school due to their financial status.
As she chose to attend a classroom setting I made my decision to attend school online. My thought of online school is that and a Classroom setting is that both can have its advantages and disadvantages. Because I am a mom of three kids and one on the way online schooling is best for me because I am able to do my house work and take care of the kids. And I am always sick so I am able to do my school work when I have the most energy. But for my sister she has to go back and forth spending a lot of money on gas, then she has to get her home work in on time plus she has to deal with her two children and also house work.
RUNNING HEAD; FACIING POVERTY WITH A RICH GIRL’S HABIT FACING POVERTY WITH A RICH GIRL’S HABIT JONETTA FRANKLIN ENG-115 April 21, 2014 DR. MARYROSE KASRAIE Suki Kim appeared in the New York Times on November 21, 2004 where she wrote an article on “Facing Poverty with a Rich Girl’s Habit “. Kim was raised by wealthy parents in South Korea, who last everything that they owned in bankruptcy. I n South Korea bankruptcy is punishment by jail time so they decide to leave and go to America. Her father was a millionaire from having shipping company and a mining business and also hotels. (Paragraph 1) Kim never did anything for herself or on her own such as homework, dishes, cleaning, washing clothes Just nothing.
Facing Poverty with a Rich Girl’s Habits In the book, “The Interpreter”, Suki Kim writes about her struggle which is published in the New York Times “Facing Poverty with a Rich Girl’s Habits”. The main point of her writing was how she faced difficulty adjusting to the change she went through when coming to American, after growing up in Korea as a wealthy girl. In Korea she was raised with maids, chauffeurs, and governesses all while living in a Mansion on the hilltops. Her father was wealthy millionaire from businesses he owned such as a shipping company, mining business, and hotels. When he lost it all through bankruptcy they had to come to American because in Korea bankruptcy was punishable by law to which he could serve jail time if he stayed.
When Ji-Li Jiang was 12, kids attacked her with retorts, her family were humiliated, and finds out she was born in a landlord family. Because of the detention of her father, Ji-Li Jiang had to make the most dreadful decision in her life; break with her family, follow Chairman Mao or follow her landlord parents and have a bad future. Read the book to find more. Afterwards, Ji-li-Jiang graduated from Shanghai University and from Shanghai Teacher's College (this happened when the Cultural Revolution was finished and Chairman Mao was already dead) and became a science teacher. She came to the United States in 1984 and graduated again from the University of Hawaii.
Miss McCarty decided to create a scholarship fund because she regretted that she never went back to school, she always so busy, and she wanted that the children had not had to work like she had done. This reason tell us that McCarty is very kind and empathetic. This essay includes evidence to show that people in the community and throughout the nation are impressed with and supportive of Miss McCarty. Specially, grandmother of Stephanie Bullock, the 18-year-old honors student from Hattiesburg shock her head in wonder “I thought she would be some little old rich lady with a fine car and a fine house and clothes” In short, Miss McCarty is the person that we respect and admire so
Marji learns a lot from these books and reads them a lot throughout the novel when she is confused. When there is a fire at a local theatre and 400 people are killed, Marji’s parents went to demonstrations but refused Marji to go because she is too young. Many people are beginning die at the beginning of the revolution. It becomes almost impossible for the Shah to rule, so moves to the United States. After Shah stepped down from his seat, all the prisoners are released.
She has grown accustomed to the American way of life. Growing up poor, she has seen what the United States has to offer. She has worked hard for her GED and to learn the English language. Living conditions are so bad in the Philippines, that leaving family behind is the only way for opportunity in the United States. Mail-order brides were popular in the Philippines after World War II.