Grace Dong-Mei-Anne Moss Quotes

“People tell you the world looks a certain way. Parents tell you how to think. Schools tell you how to think. TV. Religion. And then at a certain point, if you're lucky, you realize you can make up your own mind. Nobody sets the rules but you. You can design your own life”. -- Carrie-Anne Moss.
Carrie-Anne Moss is a famous Canadian actress, she is a famous public figure and her words have a certain impact on society. This quote illustrates how people can be easily affected by the media and people around them showing that most people are not confident enough to make up their own mind and mindlessly allow these other institutions to do the thinking for them. This common action is caused by a psychological fear as some people are afraid that their way of thinking or the way they live their lives will not be valued by their society. In the novel Throwaway

Also, the word ‘remember’ indicate that Grace Dong-Mei have keep her mother’s command in mind and she actually do what her mother told her to do. This illustrate that Grace Dong-Mei take her mother’s commands as a guide of her action because she is not ascertain about her own decision that she needs her mother to guide her and to make her more confident about herself. Furthermore, when Grace Dong-Mei starts to grow up, she starts to become defiant due to the insistence of Jane Parker of getting Grace Dong-Mei to know more about her roots. Since Grace Dong-Mei is not mature enough to state her stance clearly that she is not accepting her culture, she finally take action: “So I tried playing dumb and deaf, with my mother especially, refusing to respond when she called me Dong-Mei” (2). The use of the verb ‘refusing’ suggest the idea of of developing rebellious phase and psychological resistance of Grace Dong-Mei while facing her own culture. The fact that Grace Dong-Mei is trying to play dumb and deaf with her mother shows her sarcastic defiance