A Family Apart Analysis

Sunayun starts the search for her children but fails. She then proceeds and marries another man in the US with whom they conceive Jing Mei. She still wishes to move on with the search but dies before succeeding. A friend later finds the twins and informs them of their mother to whom they write and hope for reunion. In the short story “A pair of Tickets” by Jing Mei emphasizes the importance of family and reunion in the Asian American culture.

In the short story “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker, Dee becomes angry with her mother because she won’t allow Dee to take quilts that she had already promised she would give to Maggie. I do not believe this feeling is justified one bit. The mother sent Dee to a school in Augusta for her to be happy since their house burnt to the ground, that must have been expensive; when Dee comes to visit is seems as if she has changed. Dee seems to be very unappreciative. Mama tells Dee that she has already promised Maggie they could be hers then asks “Why don’t you take one or two of the others?”(Walker160).

The older sister thinks that is unfair that she can have anything she wants, but she chooses not to appreciate or take care of the good things her parents give. In today’s society this is a problem that many parents have with their younger kids, they get whatever they want without having to work for it. Unlike their older brothers/sisters who have to earn what they want is how the older sister feels. The last reason that the older sister is jealous of her is because she had an opportunity to get out of town and she threw the away. For instance the town that they live in is relatively small the older sister states “as soon as she got married and moved away from home the first thing she did was separate”(437).

I defiantly think Julie made a mistake abandoning the baby; already when she got home, just a few hours later, she seemed to be upset and regretful for leaving the baby. I think she could have figured something out with her parents, just like her aunt Jessie, I don't think any parent would abandon their child and grandchild in a situation like

How did you sleep?” Katy asked in fluent Russian. “Great,” her mother lied. Katy heard her talking in her sleep and her dreams didn’t sound “great” at all. They both ate their breakfast quickly and Katy got ready for school. Katy threw her coat on and rushed outside to her school.

While reading Everyday Use, it could be said that Dee was embarrassed of her heritage; three main points prove her dislike of her culture: she left the place she was born, she changed her name, and she has a unique attitude towards the artifacts her family owns. From the start of Everyday use, a reader realizes that Dee, the older daughter, is not really in the picture. Dee at this point is off somewhere in Augusta, Georgia obtaining an education. Mama, the narrator of the story, really doesn’t go into depth in explaining if Dee obtaining an education is good or not, but she does go into detail of how she feels Dee sees her family and background. “She had hated the house that much.” (Walker 7) Through these words Mama describes the burning of their past house, the family now lives in their 2nd house, and it seems that Mama believes that De... ... middle of paper ... ...round behind, when she decided to change her name she broke a pattern and a symbol that meant a lot to her family, and when she tried to define what exactly a quilt or any aftifact as a matter fact should be used she made it look like her mother and sister really didn’t know anything or at least not as much as she though.

Her mother put her to bed and told her that everyone has days like that and she hopes she will be cheerful tomorrow. Theme: Everyone has days when they are moody but they don’t last forever. Summary/Main Idea: Bella is in a contrarian mood, to put it charitably. It starts when she wakes up to find her little brother, Bob, “crawling around my room and licking my jewelry,” and it’s downhill from there. Nothing goes right for Bella, and she’s more than willing to play her misery forward:

No, his Lordship didn't, that new nanny, Miss Spingle, came down. Said it was to do with the child, Miss Alice, the cook said, giving the maid, a hard look. You best get up and see his Lordship, I need you back here; there's lots to be done. Mary felt a cold finger run up and down her narrow spine. It wasn't her fault the child had crept into her bed the other night, it wasn't her fault that the child had asked her to be her adopted mother.

On the night of the spontaneous feast, Mikage happily prepares all of Yuichi’s favorite dishes. During times of loss, Yoshimoto emphasizes how the characters neglect to eat well or how they look thinner. This emphasizes that the lack of love and comfort correlates with poor eating habits. Mikage does not eat well after losing her Grandmother and when she is away from Eriko and Yuichi. After losing Eriko, Yuichi starts drinking heavily.

My brother’s grandmother—my mom mom—stayed with us, cooked, cleaned, and helped with funeral arrangements. Freud believed that the proper way of grieving is to withdraw energy away from the loss and focus it on another object (Goldsworthy, 2005). After the funeral, so many people came over to the house to keep the family company and cheerful. We came together as a family. My grandmother was diagnosed with COPD, before she passed, and her continuous trips back and forth to the hospital, brought bed bugs to the home, which resulted in us throwing away our couches.