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A fictional narrative story
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Kian also loved school. Every morning his father would drop him off, and every afternoon, his mother would pick him up. One autumn day, after his father hugged him goodbye, Kian’s teacher introduced a new friend to the class. “Everyone,” said Kian’s teacher, “please welcome Maricela. She just moved with her family from Peru”. At first, Maricela could only speak Spanish. She spent most of her days drawing silently by herself, never saying a word to anyone, but as soon as her grandmother came to pick her up, Maricela would spring out of her seat and yell “Abuelita!”. The two would chat excitedly in Spanish as they left the classroom. One winter day, Maricela came to class with her hair tied in braids, just like her mother and grandmother. “Who did your hair”? Kian asked Maricela. “My …show more content…
For the first time in what felt like forever, Kian asked his mother to tell him a story. Kian’s mother nodded and smiled. “Kian, have I ever told you the story behind your name?” Kian’s mother asked. Kian paused. “I don’t think so.” Kian’s mother closed her eyes as she recalled memories of leaving China for the first time. She told him about how worried his grandparents were that they would never see her again, and about how she promised that she would be back someday. She told him about how she decided with Kian’s father to name Kian after her hometown, Xian, so that he would always be a part of that promise. “You see, Kian”, his mother said, “Your name is one of the things which connects you to your family in China. It shows that you belong to them, and that they belong to you.” Kian thought about all the other things which connected him to his father and mother. He thought about all the songs they sang and the food they ate. Kian also thought about the stories which he loved so much, remembering how close he felt to the people and the places inside of them. He remembered how warm and safe they made him
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Grace know that she doesn't belong to this family. “A yellow face in a white family where freckles were the norm” (Ye 129). She feels lots of love from her adoptive family. When she being to know about “person of color”, the only thing that she know is she doesn’t fit it and she not belong to this family. Grace decides go to China to finds out her birth mother and who she is. “China is where I came from. This is what I am” (Ye 137). She accepts that the fact she is adopted, but she is questioning who she is and the way she starts imagining going to China and also determined to get answer about her background. Finally, Grace found out her birth mother. “I have met one hero in my life. Her name is Chun-mei, and she is my mother” (Ye 295). She meets her birth mother, discovers by many new things from her birth mother and she finds out the truth about her past also she understand her birth mother why she gave up her.
As a young child, Rodriguez finds comfort and safety in his noisy home full of Spanish sounds. Spanish, is his family's' intimate language that comforts Rodriguez by surrounding him in a web built by the family love and security which is conveyed using the Spanish language. "I recognize you as someone close, like no one outside. You belong with us, in the family, Ricardo.? When the nuns came to the Rodriquez?s house one Saturday morning, the nuns informed the parents that it would be best if they spoke English. Torn with a new since of confusion, his home is turned upside down. His sacred family language, now banished from the home, transforms his web into isolation from his parents. "There was a new silence in the home.? Rodriguez is resentful that it is quiet at the dinner table, or that he can't communicate with his parents about his day as clearly as before. He is heartbroken when he overhears his mother and father speaking Spanish together but suddenly stop when they see Rodriguez. Thi...
When they first arrived to the United States their only hopes were that they would have a better life and that there were better special education programs for Maribel to attend at Evers. Alma imagined that the buildings would look a lot nicer than they really were. The family was surprised that they could take things from the street that someone threw out of their house, but were in working condition. When they arrived they didn’t think that you would actually have to learn English to be able to communicate, but after going to stores and interacting with people they learned that they need to learn English if they want to live in America. They hoped that you could be able to afford anything in America by working, but based off of the money Arturo was making they learned that you can’t buy everyth...
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The Story also constantly talks of “blood.” In the western culture, blood, which is usually connected with red, symbolizes a sacrifice, death and also a bloodline. As we look at the previous repeated words, the “blood” means a lineage of family and relations. Blood also signifies your identity. In the story, May June, does not understand her Chinese blood identity at the beginning. She was embarrassed by her mother’s behavior. She did not realize what it meant when her mother said “Once you are born Chinese, you cannot help but feel and think Chinese…It is in your blood, waiting to be let go.” She admits that even though she is 36 years old, “I’ve never known what it means to be Chinese.” It is not until she goes to China and finally meets her half sisters that she understands what it is to be Chinese. “And now I see what part of me is Chinese. It is so obvious. It is my family. It is in our blood. After all these years, it can finally be let go.” Red color in the Chinese tradition is different fro...
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As a child, Blanca helped Pedro Tercero Garcia to properly read with books she brought him that sparked his curiosity and desire. With Blanca’s aid his literacy improved in ways that “his schoolmistress had been unable to do with all her canings” (Allende, 139). This later helps him as he gets a job under the socialist party through his musical influence on the radio. Both jobs require a high literacy level which was able to be unlocked through Blanca’s tenderness and caring nature. This caring nature is also a large factor when she cuts her new husband Jean de Satigny out her life forever. This dramatic change in Blanca’s life was done for the protection of her unborn daughter from Blanca’s husband. “She had decided to forget the man she had married and act as if he had never existed. She never spoke of him again, nor did she offer any explanation for her flight from the conjugal abode” (Allende, 265). Blanca’s decision changes her life as she is now living without a husband, a frowned upon decision in society. Along with her little education, she can never get a decent job and support herself and her daughter. Although Blanca cannot get a well paying job, she opens up a pottery class for mongoloid children in the big house on the corner. During these classes “Blanca and Alba had quickly understood that the children worked much better when they felt loved, and that the only way to communicate with them was through affection. They learned to hug them, kiss them, and fondle them until they wound up genuinely loving them” (Allende, 280). The classes not only help the children express and enjoy themselves but it also helps everyone else learn softer and loving ways to communicate with them. Her actions cause parents and guardians to be able to understand and love their children who have not been able
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her good-byes to her own family because in the Chinese culture she is now part
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achieved 12 A* grades in her GCSEs and 5 A grades in her AS-level. ‘Sally,