Analysis Of Eric Liu's 'Song For My Father'

n “Song FOR My Father”, Eric Liu talked about how his father illness has changed the life of his family and how he viewed his father differently inasmuch as the clash of his Chinese heritage and his identity as an Asian American. He also mentioned the power of love by using his personal experience to describe the pain he was suffering at that time. In “No Name Woman”, Maxine Hong Kingston referred to how her family and neighbors created a new identity for her aunt in the view of the fact that her behavior has violated the traditions and history of Chinese culture. She also stated how the family betrayed her aunt by deliberately forgetting her. From these two essays, we can understand how crucial our heritage and families to everyone as they

Our cultural tradition represents our position in the society. This is because our custom can shape who we are and how should we be in the community. For example, what are the most important things we concentrate on our culture or family? In “Song FOR My Father”, Liu revealed that dignity played a significance role to his father by declaring “He could not imagine letting a disease break his stride; amazingly, it hardly did. He went about the business of his daily life, going to the office, mowing the lawn, fixing up the house, playing catch, helping us with homework, shopping for groceries, as if nothing were wrong” (Liu 268). This showed how the author’s dad tried to continue live as a normal person without bring any disruption to his family or others and asked his family to keep silence about his illness to others. We can see the persistence involved in the spirit of Liu’s dad and how he did not want anyone treated him differently. At the same time, we can recognize how he did not want to build trepidation and become the burden to his family by undergoing all of the sufferings by himself. In “No Name Woman”, Kingston expressed how reputation stands

This is because we all come from a different background that it is difficult for all of us to have the same perspective. Discrimination is a prejudice against others that based on race, age, sex, religious belief, region, nationality, language, employment, disability, or even caste. Have you ever discriminated or discriminated against others before? How do you feel? In “Song FOR My Father” Liu talked about the reason why his father was trying to conceal his disease by attesting “I conjectured that his secrecy, far from being ‘typically Chinese’ behavior, was actually a preemptive strike against anti-Chinese behavior: a way to fit in, to hide his difference, to insure against mistreatment”(Liu 267-70). This told us some of the characteristics that we can be found in Chinese’s manner. Moreover, we can notice that how his father attempt to maintain the virtue of Chinese. This is because Chinese usually considered as diligent, frugal, loyal, filial piety, courtesy and etc. They also view these as their principal that they will not go against. In “No Name Woman”, Kingston mentioned how her aunt carried the baby and jumped to the family well with her together. On the surface, we can understand that her aunt just wanted to protect the family’s name for her family and did not want her child suffer any criticism from the village. When we look closer, we can become aware of the baby could be a girl instead of a boy that gender