Keung is one of the protagonists of the book "White Jade Tiger". He has tanned skin, long braided hair, and black eyes. Keung grew into a hard-working, ambitious man from experiencing a tough moral in life. Together, Keung and Jasmine (who he believed to be a spirit of his dream) will return the White Jade Tiger to Bright Jade to end the deathly curse on the Bright Jade clan.
Keung has a few weaknesses. He is easily frightened, stubborn and addicted to opium. Even though Keung is 15 years old, he is frightened when he travels alone. Of course, he will be nervous, but he is petrified. "He shivered. In spite of his fifteen years, he felt terribly young and afraid" (pg. 46) all of us have a weakness, but to get rid of the weakness itself is not to get rid of it. You have to be brave, caring, clever and ambitious. Bend that weakness to
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a valuable trait. Keung has plenty of burdens to carry at a growing age.
He experiences prejudice from Canadians, found his father dying away and dealing with Blue-Scar Wong. These problems can cause stress, anxiety, addiction to drugs and possibly mental illness. "Living in my time is enough of a burden right now. I have found my father only to watch him die" (pg. 138). If I were him, I might had exploded. The pain was unbearable. My connection to this experience is that my beloved grandmother died one month ago before I was born. As a baby, I cried for 100 days. Every single day.
When he describes his personality, Keung uses "Tiger Boy". He knows he is someone brave, determinate, sensitive and soft. He feels shameful if he is not acting any of those traits. "Some Tiger Boy. Those born in the Year of the Tiger were supposed to be courageous and powerful. ” (pg. 46) Personally, I love his personality, he is tough, but not in a bad way. He can be naïve, however he uses his weakness to work harder toward his goal. His personality is a perfect match for his adventure, resulting yin and yang complementing each other. As a Sheep girl, I would be his
friend. Keung visited lots of places, mainly hiding from Blue-Scar Wong. He traveled from Hong Kong to Canada, sailed across Fraser Canyon, went into Chinatown and then went into Hell Gate. "As the ship sailed out of Hong Kong, he and the others had tossed grains of rice into the water so that the gods would give them a safe voyage. And safe it was, at least they weren't wrecked at sea." (pg. 47) Ugh, how I hate traveling, my neck hurts and I get seasick. My head get dizzy. I traveled to many small places like Bunzun Lake and Stanley Park, but I only travel to USA, Texas Houston to visit my cousin. Keung is an admirable person. He endured sadness but prospers afterward. He waited for Jasmine while working a tedious job, and found his true love. "He is clever and resourceful, a hard-worker." (pg. 161) If Keung is real, he can be a notable person in Canada. He could write a book about himself, writing his adventure in his perspective. He will be remembered for generations. In memory of Chan Tai Keung + his friend Jasmine Steel Born in China His memorable acts will be remembered forever Keung, the "Tiger Boy" proved that he is a courageous and powerful person. He did tasks most adults won’t do. He faces death in a young age, lacked nutrition deficiency, got bullied endlessly and not fearing the tiger’s curse. He is scared, but he is brave, facing his problems with courage. “In one sudden move, Keung lifted the tea kettle and pitch it straight at him.” (pg. 144) I wouldn’t be as brave as Keung, since I avoid conflict. If I am Keung, instead of fighting Blue Scar Wong, I run away, pray for my life after I stand up to him and give my voice. In his religion, Keung believes in an afterlife. His belief consists of burying a person properly, how ghosts can only move forward and spirits can appear in dreams. “If you’re not a spirit, what are you?” (pg. 92) In my opinion, my religion believes in the afterlife. They say that ghosts are real for they have too much karma about death. There is a heaven and a hell, 7 levels of heaven and 10 levels of hell. Your actions will affect you. As a teenager, Keung is prone to mood swings, but settling in this unstable adventure makes him moody. He has a cluster of feelings, and it is not advisable to suppress them. Time after time, he showed his feelings to ones that he trusts. “I feel like a tiger in a cage.”(pg.76) My advice to Keung is be calm. Take a deep breath and focus on a soothing song. During their adventure, His strengths are demonstrated often. Even though he is easily scared, he deal with his problems anyway. “Your ancestors must be proud of you, she said you were brave to come all this way by yourself." (pg. 131) I am very proud of him if I’m his ancestors. My great- grandchild stood up to his ungrateful man Keung experienced a lot from his adventure. He lives in a typical life of a coolie but with his adventure, his learning curve expanded. “You are an excellent pupil, with a great capacity for learning” (pg. 73) When reading the book White Jade Tiger, you might need to know the character so you know how and why he/she react to a problem this way. This paragraph points the main personality to the character. Keung hopes you enjoy this paragraph, and will be glad you, the reader, will understand him more.
The contrast Huong provides between the reality of Hang’s impoverished life and the beauty of the scenery that she experiences, emphasise the powerful effect the landscape has on her. When describing the first snowfall she ever observed, Hang noticed that the snowflakes “flood[ed] the earth with their icy whiteness,” this observation “pierc[ing her] soul like sorrow.” The scenery had such a moving effect on Hang, perhaps because she longed for the familiar sight of a Vietnamese landscape. Then recalling a time when her mother took her to a beach, the exquisiteness of the scene at dawn was equally emotionally poignant to Hang, not because she wished for a recognisable sight, but because it was such an extreme difference from the slum in Hanoi where she grew up. The sensory details of her childhood remain with Hang even years later, acting as a reminder of her humble beginnings even as she advances in life. The stench of “rancid urine” that permeated the walls of the slum and the hut where she and her mother lived, with its persistently leaky roof “patched together out of…rusty sheet metal” ; build a vivid picture of poverty. To then be exposed to the breathtaking vista of a natural landscape, having experienced the scarceness of beauty in the slums that is her home, causes distress in Hang.
In "Sonny's Blues" James Baldwin presents an intergenerational portrait of suffering and survival within the sphere of black community and family. The family dynamic in this story strongly impacts how characters respond to their own pain and that of their family members. Examining the central characters, Mama, the older brother, and Sonny, reveals that each assumes or acknowledges another's burden and pain in order to accept his or her own situation within an oppressive society. Through this sharing each character is able to achieve a more profound understanding of his own suffering and attain a sharper, if more precarious, notion of survival.
Loung Ung is a very outgoing individual. She is very joyful and very adventurous compared to her siblings( Meng, Khouy, Keav, Kim, Chou, and Geak) who were very coshes and mature. Throughout the book Loung makes many difficult journeys during her Cambodian youth. Having to go from a large privileged family to being an orphan was very irritating for the young girl. She wasn't able to grasp the fact that her live was being torn apart because of something she had nothing to do with. Being the curious girl she is, she always asked “Why?” That question was one of the million she asked her father but that was the only one he couldn't answer.
he suffered through-out his life, ie. the war, the holocaust, his wife's suicide, and his heart disease.
Wang Lung starts off poor, but happy. While he is not satisfied with his place in life, especially compared to the seemingly mighty and rich House of Hwang, Wang Lung is pleased to have a wife, Olan. Olan helps him in the fields, in addition to all of her housework, and she bears him sons. With her help, Wang Lung becomes successful and rich. His displeasure in his place in life is evident with Olan; while he is pleased to have her as his wife, he is upset that he cannot afford to have a wife with bound feet. Although he is disappointed in Olan’s appearance, it does not truly affect him until he becomes rich, at which point he decides that she is too ugly and he must take another wife, against his father’s wishes.
...s more and more irritated by Chin-Kee. It comes to a point where he has a fight with Chin-Kee (207). At the end of the fight, Danny manages to knock off Chin-Kee's mask, which reveals his true identity as the Monkey King (212). Danny is transformed back to Jin Wang. Jin realizes he should be happy with whom he really is and that transformations are not necessary. Through these back and forth transformations, Jin finally is at peace with his true identity and who he should continue to be.
Chin-Kee in the ‘Danny” storyline is interpreted as Yang’s attempt to show overt examples of stereotypes. Chin-Kee’s vocabulary brings forth the stereotype that “Asian people talk funny”. In American Born Chinese, Chin-Kee exclaims, “Harro! Cousin Da-Nee finarry come” (Yang 204). The way Chin-Kee speaks as he addresses his cousin is stifled, so Chin-Kee’s language enforces the opinion of some that poke fun of Asian people speaking “that way”. By po...
struggles to find a person to give his love to. There is nothing tragic about
Huong uses a circular writing style to portray the characterization of Hang. As the novel flows from Hang’s past memories to the present, her feelings are paralleled with the different events. This allows the reader to see Hang’s feelings towards her current situation. Because the reader is exposed to Hang’s feelings, her journey to find her self-purpose is
Ha Jin chooses to use first-person narration in this piece. He does this to better show the bountiful emotions and various opinions of each character. Ha Jin uses Old Chang to portray society’s views on homosexuality. At the beginning the narrator is very judgmental and believes that homosexuality is a disease, and that Baowen can be cured. When it comes to homosexuality, many people can be very close-minded. As the story progresses, Old Cheng begins questioning his feelings towards this subject.
Coming of age is essential to the theme of many major novels in the literary world. A characters journey through any route to self-discovery outlines a part of the readers own emotional perception of their own self-awareness. This represents a bridge between the book itself and the reader for the stimulating connection amongst the two. It is seen throughout Paradise of the Blind by Duong Thu Huong, Hang’s coming of age represents her development as a woman, her changing process of thinking, and her ability to connect to the reader on a personal level.
He had been scared about being at the bottom of the food chain again. He pulled through well, but had a couple of social issues as this stage in his life progressed. For example, he had some experiences with peer pressure by his fellow classmates. It was important for him to go through this, because he needed to learn about standing up for what he believes in.
...self to find a job and survive on his own, which came to be very hard for him to do. He probably could have stayed at home with his parents and be taken care of for a few more years had he not done so. I think the author put forth these themes clearly and effectively.
Adeline Yen Mah’s literary skills explain comprehensively how Niang’s flawed personality cause great agony for Adeline. However, it is being mistreated by Niang that ultimately fuels her to undertake the seemingly impossible task of trying to succeed in life. Adeline’s great accomplishments in life were the result of her unfaltering determination in the face of injustice. Niang inadvertently helped her achieve that.
There are very few roles in life that are as wonderful, exhausting, and criticized as being a parent. Part of the hardship is that parenting comes with no instruction manual. One moment you are a singular person with your own personal concerns. The next moment, you have this tiny little being peering up at you and a realization sets in that everything you do or do not do is going to impact this minute person. This insecurity in parenting abilities is where parenting books find their niche, including Amy Chua 's Battle Hymn of a Tiger Mother, where she states her belief that only extreme Chinese style parenting is effective at raising intelligent children that lead to successful adults. Not surprisingly,