Compare And Contrast The Samurai's Memory And The Suicide Note

In the non-fictional book, The Samurai’s Garden by Gail Tsukiyama and the fictional poem, “ The Suicide Note” by Janice Mirikitani has character(s) that lose something valuable. From both book and poem I can related to the loss that I have endured during my life. However, the loss of both are different for The Samurai’s Garden, Matsu loss her sister from leprosy and Sachi loss her best friend. In “The Suicide Note” the Asian-American student’s family loss their daughter because they think she was never good enough. In The Samurai’s Garden, the plot is Matsu told Stephen about her younger sister’s death. While Matsu stated what Tomoko’s steps of leading to death, Matsu ended by saying, “ ‘I won’t live like this,’ she repeated over and over again in a chant. It was as if she already knew what would become of her. Three days later when I went to check on Tomoko, my sixteen-year-old sister had found my father’s fishing knife and ended her life” (Tsukiyama 156). From Matsu’s point of view, he knows he could have him Tomoko from alive, but he

However, because of her parents always said to her that she is not good enough of getting less than a perfect four-point grade average. Nevertheless, in the poem it stated, “dear mother and father. I apologize for disappointing you. I have worked very hard, not good enough”, which her parent made the made the whole atmosphere for their daughter worse because she is already way over her head. Also, She feels stressed and pressured, which one-day, she was on the edge of her emotion and led to her to jump to her death from her dorm window. This affected me as a reader because I am also an Asian-American student, if my parents told me and give me pressure that I have to always get a four-point average grade I think I would go crazy and probably do the same thing as she