Sunday, July 25, 2004

 

Response to Lisa's opinion (from Po-Kai)

____In Lisa’s response, I agree with Lisa that pressure or stress changes Young Ju’s Apa. From the last part of “A Step from Heaven”, AnNa’s mother shows her some pictures, which tooks before them immigrating to the United States. Her mother talks about how happy with her husband and Young Ju before they move to the United States. Her father not drinks a lot and did not use violence to her mother before they move to the United States. This part allows us to compare and contrast AnNa’s father between in the USA and Korea. The results are obviously that her father unaccustomed to the pressure of American life. He cannot speak English fluently, have no friends here, no money, and even cannot go back to Korea when his mother dies. Those kind of stresses make him upset, so he use alcohol to anesthesia himself and try to forget everything that make him feel bad. That’s why Young Ju mentions that her Apa always drunk at home. Consequently, alcohol makes him losing self-control ability, Young Ju’s Apa use violence to his wife and children and finally he leaves his family and go back to Korea.
____From above, I relied every immigrant family member have stress and pressure when they just move to a new country. Besides learning new language, parent need to find a job to support their family, and children need to meet new friends. Those kind of daily things all give strain to family members. I think Young Ju’s family did not prepare very well when they plan to move to USA because they thought their GoMo and Uncle Tim can help them. However, they move out from their GoMo’s house finally, and their adversity begins. I am very sorry to see this kind of situation happen in AnNa’s family because it may happen in my family, too.

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