Thursday, November 29, 2012

The Girl In Translation

I have just started to read a novel called GIRL In Translation by Jean Kwok. This book is about a girl who had just moved to the united states with her mother, they previously lived in Hong Kong China. They have nothing much with them, they spend all there money just to come to the united states, so the daughter can get the future that she couldn't have in China. After they come to the united states they have to live in an apartment that is similar to living in the junkyard. The mother has no qualifications for a good job, but the mother soon receives a job at a clothing factory on Canal street China Town, where she has to works twenty -four hours seven days a week to get get paid so little that their lives just goes by thinking Am i going to eat tomorrow or starve . After 1-2 weeks they move in to their disgusting apartment kim starts school knowing very few English. Once she gets to school she gets judged in a bad way by not the students but by the teacher! The teacher scolds her for not knowing what is suppose to be done. And that made her stop going to school for a week. 
  This is one really difficult thing i found in this book, how people are being judged on a daily basis which are making them feel that they don't belong. It happens to everyone, and it happens everywhere. This is something where only we can stop. People are being judged on many things on how they dress, speak, attitude, personality, and more. i was judged too, and it is not a good feeling. It makes you feel like there is nobody in this world who likes me for who i am, but hates me for how i appear to people. Some people can't stand that and does things that affects them majorly in their life. This is one difficult thing i found in my reading book  

2 comments:

  1. I agree that this book may make you think that people are criticized everyday for who they are. They are segregated into races and rank. Like you cant live in a high class neighborhood if you are homeless. It's like things like this can't mix. I think its really sad that things like this happen

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