THE THEME: Paul Yee tells a story of one women’s survival , and her triumph of victory from defeat. A theme in which we all share as individuals through our struggles in life. PLOT STRUCTURE/SETTING: Plot begins with Gum-may arriving from China to Wilding in 1950, the events to do not occur in chronological order. WHAT ARE THE MAIN ISSUES AND IDEA’S: In this short story I believe that the author states such common issues we as North Americans still share, in today’s society; issues of Racial Discrimination, displacement; and personal dependency are all illustrated by sharing and representing these issues through Gum-may Yee’s own thoughts as she defines each of these issues and how these issues comply with her struggles as a dependent Chinese wife. HOW THE AUTHOR PRESENTS THE IDEA’S AND ISSUES: It is told through the protagonist, namely, Gum-May Yee.
People also tried to turn away from all the sorrow, so they accepted this new foreign religion coming in, regardless of the political situation in China at the time. It is clear that many people in China met Buddhism with admiration (Doc. 1, 2), tolerance (Doc. 3, 5) and disapproval (Doc. 4, 6).
The people of China have been most influenced by Confucian ideas, and during the Han Dynasty Confucianism became part of the official education. Since Confucianism was being taught widespread it influenced the minds of the Chinese people enormously. Something the Confucian ideals taught was that women must hold a position that has less power than men, lowering the status of women. The only way a women could gain any type of respect was by birthing a son. It was taught that women should not have any type of rule and no one should care about a women’s ideas.
Latifah McCollough Dr. B. Jack HIS 1302-08 April 20, 2010 Primary Source Analysis In 1949 China, under the leadership of Mao Zedong, China passed a law that granted women the same rights as men in a marriage. This was a big step in China because China’s traditional values grant men all authority. Because it was a law that broke the traditional values of the Chinese, Chinese men and women of the 1940’s may not have respected the law as well as they did others. This was the beginning of China moving forward and catching up with countries such as the United States and Europe. Many women in China were typical house wives in the 1940’s.
An individual feels a sense of belonging through different experiences and relationships. The novel, The China Coin, written by Allan Baillie explores this idea through the experience of a girl travelling to China whilst The Arrival, a picture book, written by Shaun Tan conveys this through the story of a migrant in a fictional place in an alien planet. One of the ways in which an individual can develop a sense of belonging and find their identities is through their experiences. In The China Coin, Leah's experiences in China make her feels like she belongs. At the start, Leah shows her sense of not belonging through inner monologues to the airhostess on the plane.
After the incident at the walk-a-thon, sister Louise tells Josie she is not an outcast and is a trend setter, saying “The girls copy what you do. They look up to you.” Josie sees her culture differently after this event in the novel, and by discarding the problems associated with the misconception of Josie’s culture, the idea of multiculturalism is shown to be important through the events that make her see her culture differently. As well as the walk-a-thon, John Barton’s death was a significant event that changed the way Josie feels about her culture. John Barton taught Josie through his death that you have to accept your hang-ups to be emancipated, as John had to die to achieve his emancipation. Rather than turning her back to her Italian culture, Josie sees this can’t be changed and accepts it, saying, “You can’t change what you’re a part of.
The author concludes that love is the theme of the story. Anne’s selfless love for others moved a lot of Chinese readers. Then the author outlines the 7 main ways how Chinese readers get the Anne series. Some get the book by chance, some are introduced by others and some assess that in the library. And he summarizes that no matter how they get that, they are all moved and inspired a lot by her extraordinary qualities and her optimistic attitude.
This is the list we first see in the article, it seems like very normal things in the Western world, the children are more independent and get to experience basic social things, which the Chinese children don’t, in China it is the parents who chooses which instruments they have to play. Chua uses provocation in the article to draw in the reader, like for example the title “Why Chinese Mothers are Superior” this question the Western mothers parenting skills. She implies that
The novel traces the psychological development of the American daughter and her final acceptance of the Chinese mother and what the Chinese mother stands for. It is interesting to note that when Jing-mei Woo is asked by her three “aunts” to go to China in order to fulfill her mother’s long-cherished wish to meet her lost twin babies, Jing-mei shocks and upsets
Once she has make the reader interested she engages them more by gaining their credibility by using herself as an example. Her experience with both a her husband as a western parent and herself as a chinese one, is making it a firsthand experience. She puts the arguments perspectively the western parenting and the chinese parenting against each others and the she elevates the arguments with her owns. Their