Analysis Of Homeward Bound

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Mohammed Alkhalili
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Family’s Love
The essay “Homeward Bound” By Janet Wu reminds us that we can have feelings towards people who we are so different from us, also it shows us the importance of having this kind of relationship no matter the contrast. Wu talks about her and her grandmother. Her father was separated from his family in the 20th century, which made him move to the US. But her father has tried to contact his family for 30 years, until he came to know that his mother and brother were alive, so the first thing he did was to gather his family and go to China. When Wu first met her grandmother, they both had feelings towards each other, Wu says “And yet we communicated something strange and beautiful. I found it easy …show more content…

For example, when my grandfather told me about a story when he was in my age, he was in a fight with one of his friends, the reason of this fight was that my grandfather’s friend was trying to bully him to make joke of him but he didn’t not mean to insult but he just was flirting, but my grandfather got in fight with this guy and he harmed him. In that moment my grandfather never felt anything towards this guy, but after some time my grandfather came to know that his friend was just having a coquet behavior and he did not mean to insult him, in that moment my grandfather he felt pangs of remorse. Because he couldn’t control himself and he harmed this guy. I learned from my grandfather that we shouldn’t rush in judging others and we have to think before doing anything.
In conclusion, Wu made us remember how important our grandparents no matter how different are we from each other. Also, I learned a lot from my grandparents, and some of things that I learned are that we should treat others with good manners and secondly, we shouldn’t blame others for things that we are uncertain they did it. What I learned from my grandfather made me owe both of my grandparents a lot. And off course one of the things that I and Wu share is that we miss our grandparents a lot and we hope to see them as soon as possible in the

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