What Is The Journey In Where The Wind Leads By Vinnh Johnson Summary

Fueled by Struggles Living the present to thank the past. Many traditional families have certain ways of raising their children, which accounts for much of the child’s future deeds. Traditional families, which include many of the minority groups in America, come from a hard life where they had to hide, run, submit, and endure. The struggles one generation before went through determines what type of standards and life expectations the future generations will grow up with. Vinh Chung addresses his personal life under tradition throughout his memoir, “Where The Wind Leads”, and he explains how it’s hard for Western society to comprehend. Tradition is passed down from generation to generation. However, there is a cultural barrier that

As a boy I had to struggle every day against the awkwardness and confusion of an unfamiliar culture and the isolation and feeling of inferiority caused by a language I couldn’t speak-but I never had to fear the Imperial Army of Japan or live under the rule of the colonialist French or dodge the machetes of the Cambodian and Viet Minh or hope that a Viet Cong assassin did not have a rifle trained on my back. I had to struggle with hunger because I hurried off to school without eating breakfast, but I never had to wonder where my next meal was coming from- not even once. I had to suffer the heat and humidity of a restaurant kitchen owned by my own family, but I never had to work the dirt of a ten-acre farm, where I had been banished by my own government. I had to spend long, boring hours studying to get into the college of my choice, but I didn’t have to spend long, boring years working in a factory because I had no choice. (Chung 337) The memoir, “Where The Wind Leads”, had numerous examples of how tradition and past struggles shape the lives of the generations that follow. The individuals’ childhood discipline and relationship customs might be hard to accept by Westerner’s or modern society’s eyes, but that is what they live by everyday. It’s inspiring to watch the sacrifice and strength that had to be carried by the parents, in order to grant an easier life to