AS AM 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Frank Chin, Toshio Mori, Jade Snow Wong
Document Summary
American promise of leaving behind tradition and entering into modern life. Fifth chinese daughter (1950), in its autobiographical style, was sociological, and therefore popular. The move from first person to third person. By getting the first person view and the third, it allows readers to see different perspectives. The text becomes broader, and the readers see the sociology of what it means to be a chinese-american. Limits of female education in china vs. american opportunity (14-15) You can earn nothing from your own pictures. Jade snow"s parents never showed physical affections. Father"s ties to china vs. jade"s coming of age in america. American ways were not only generally and vaguely different from their. Chinese ways, but that they were specifically different, and the specific differences would involve a choice of action. Jade snow finds herself choosing between her traditional ways in. China and the modern methods of america, and this dilemma makes her uncomfortable.
