EDU T&L 108.01 Discussion Board

3rd part is describing Joung Ju’s school life and her parents’ affairs. In particular, I can recognize Young Ju’s parents’ hardships in the U.S. that almost foreign immigrants have been experiencing. As you know, immigrants have come to the U.S with hopes that they would be able to have a better life in America than in their countries. However, the realities before their lives in America are a series of pains and misfortunes that they did not expect. I have watched many documentary programs that draw Korean immigrants in the U.S who are suffering. Through these programs, I could understand Young Ju’s parents vicariously. Especially, many Korean immigrants are suffering from a mental pain that makes them feel self-destruction, the reason of which is because they have been very competent before they came to the U.S, but they could not earn money on account of a various of reasons in the U.S. and another pain that Korean immigrant suffer is the authority of a husband. In Korean, the authority of a husband is considered very important. I do not have any idea on the authority of American husbands, but the authority of Korean husbands is absolute. Korean husbands want to keep their authority when they were in Korea in the same way, but who try to follow the authority in the situation that they have very hard time? So they sometimes turn to very aggressive, even resort to violence like Young Ju’s father gets angry with his wife. In the novel, Young Ju’s parents do not want Young Ju to hang out with Amanda. That attributes to a very different view of Korean, and that may be a sort of misunderstanding of American.