Summary Of Saving Sourdi By May-Lee Chi

Although some stories are written by completely different authors, countless stories can and have shared similar themes and ideals. One example of two stories that share similar concepts is the example of the stories: Sticks and Salt and Growing up Hmong in Laos and America. In the story, Sticks and Salt, Phuoc Nguyen talks about his life growing up as a Vietnamese refugee in America. On the other hand, in the story, Growing up Hmong in Laos and America, Pa Xiong Gonzalo talks about his life growing up as a Hmong refugee and his life growing up in America. Even though some stories may share similarities, there will always be differences in the stories and in the writing of the stories.

In modern society, more and more people concert about the influence that parents affect their kids. So there are two stories which catch people’s eyes. In the story “Two Kinds” and “Tiger Moms” which wrote by Annie Murphy Paul and Amy Tan, the heroes of stories are Amy’s mother and Amy Chua respectively. The difference is that Amy Chua is crueler than Amy’s mother. However those two characters both hope their kids have wonderful career in the future.

The short stories, "Rules of the Game" by Amy Tan and "Royal Beatings" by Alice Munro are both about a young girl dealing with a mother/ mother figure daughter relationship. The stories are written from different points of view. Tan wrote the Rules of the Game in first-person and Munro wrote Royal Beatings in third-person omniscient. Although the authors use different points of view they still make us feel the tension build between the protagonist and their mother/mother figure starting with a vulnerability which leads to misunderstanding and grows to resentment that turns into disrespect and finishes with punishment. It is often said that a girl’s first friend is her mother, which is true in most cases.

The Other Wes Moore: Part One -- In class The Other Wes Moore, the story written by Wes Moore himself, uncovers two drastically different life stories of two people with the same name. Specifically, this book shows of how different life choices the two protagonists made is determined by the society and social influences. Especially, the mother figure and the ways the protagonists dealt with the social environment had created a significant difference between the life experiences of the two men.

The relationship between a mother and a daughter holds a special bond of love and care. While mothers truly care for their daughters, this act of devotion can lead to conflicts. The strength of their bond is the determining factor in overcoming and being able to tolerate periods of disagreement. The excerpts in Amy Chua’s Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mom and Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club both display the reality of mother-daughter relationships.

The tone and diction of each passage lets the reader decipher the sort of relationship the mothers and their daughters share. Within the story by Amy Tan, we read the excerpt “Jing- Mei Woo: Two Kinds”. Tan reminisces her childhood and remembers how controlling and possessive her mother would be. Reading from the excerpt, the fights between Tan and her mom seem to have been a regular thing.

“The Other Family” by Himani Bannerji, can teach people a life lesson about appreciating the culture they come from and that they should stay true to who they are regardless of what others think is right. In “The Other Family” when the little girl came home from school, she showed her mom a picture she drew of their family. When the mom saw the picture, she was very disappointed because the picture showed a white family, not theirs. The little girl said she drew a white family because all the books she read showed only white families. “I drew it from a book…all our books have this same picture of the family.”

First, in the story “Two Kinds” a Chinese girl, named Jing-Mei, learns about what her mother was really attempting to get her to accomplish in her childhood. For Instance, when Jing-Mei is a child, she is being forced to be the best against her will by her mother. Many years later when Jing-Mei is grown up she is

Everything That Rises Must Converge is a remarkable and influential piece of writing of Flannery O’Connor. Flannery was a Southern American writer and essayist, who had a prominent role in American literature. This short story of hers mainly talks about an incident happened to Julian, a young man recently graduated from college, and his mother, a middle-aged woman from an eminent family which has now come down in the world. On the bus heading to a reducing class at Y, Julian and his mother met two white women. The one with the protruding teeth gets off the bus when well-dressed black man with a suitcase gets on the bus.

One of the reasons why ‘Mother is Supreme’ is because the children can always run to their mothers for forgiveness and sympathy (Shmoop Editorial Team 2008). “It’s true that a child belongs to its father. But when a father beats his child, it seeks sympathy in its mother’s hut. A man belongs to his fatherland when things are good and life is sweet. But when there is sorrow and bitterness he finds refuge in his motherland.

At her first glance at them, she knew exactly who they were because of their resemblance to their mother. However, as she approached them, she realized that there were no evident similarities in features between them and her mother, but that the similarities she noticed at first ran deep in their blood: they were family. And at this brief moment of realization, the most perceptible change in Jing-Mei took place. She said, “Now I also see what part of me is Chinese. It is so obvious.

The criticism the daughters received from their mothers was beneficial because they respected their mother’s opinion and cultural. Jing-mei’s relationship with her mother was fragile due to her mom passing away due with the thoughts in her head the father assumed. Suyuan Woo had a horrible life with the Japanese coming into Kweilin trying to take over she had no choice but to pack such little belongings and escape “ By then I didn’t have enough feeling left in my body to cry, I finally dropped one bag after the other when my hands began to bleed. ” The life and horrible events Suyuan Woo went through she only hoped and prayed that her daughter would have a better life than she did that’s why she was so hard on her opinions.

The Fifth Chinese Daughter by Jade Snow Wong is an autobiography about her being the fifth daughter of a Chinese family. The novel is written in the third person as she tells the readers her story of being born and raised in Chinatown, San Francisco. Throughout her story we watch her grow as she portrays her life growing up as kid and becoming an adult. Education plays the largest role in Wong’s journey to adulthood in both a formal and informal manner. She helps the readers understand the morals of Asian families, and the conflicts that the normal Chinese community and person may face when dealing with foreign issues.

Normally, a mother and daughter have a special love for each other but this was different. "I felt that my mother was not to be trusted.... She was always plotting. She was plotting now to get me to stay in the house more, although she knew I hated it (because she knew I hated it) and keep me from working for my father." (Munro, 5).

Maternal deprivation is a concept that was considered by Bowlby, to lead to adverse effects on the child who experienced it. Maternal deprivation is the interruption/separation between a child and its mother, or a lack of maternal care in early childhood, which may then go on to cause psychological problems in adult life. Bowlby investigated the results of several studies where children had been separated from their mothers and noticed stages that they went through – initially crying and clinging to adults, then their activity diminishes and they cry less often, they then withdraw from social interaction becoming absorbed in their toys and finally if they are picked up, they struggle or cringe away from the adult. Bowlby’s work which he