My Favorite Story - 1121 Words

My favorite story is the Hsu family’s for one primary reason: I find this story the most relatable of all four. Not only have I been passive like Rose even until now, but my mother was also raised similarly to An-mei. In a traditionally Vietnamese environment, she was regularly told to â€Å"eat [her] own bitterness† (Tan 260) . Travelling away from her hometown in Nam Dinh for university in the urban Ho Chi Minh City, she was let to think for herself for the first time. Although the permeating expectations of conformity from my father and society were other big obstacles, my mom never stopped telling me to stand up for myself. In my life, my mom has been the only woman, and for hers my grandmother. The maternal bonds in my family have always†¦show more content†¦Both of them have slowly shifted towards the yinyang equilibrium: a balance of belief in fate and will. The theme is also present explicitly in details. Bad feng shui and the unstable table in the Jord an household represent the marriage as something that could collapse anytime. Similar symbolism can be found in Rose, whose imbalance and passivity are â€Å"like a weed, growing wild in all directions (233). Thus, she couldn’t find the resolution to take action until much later. The theme not only manifests itself in these actual details, but also the shift of belief towards the balance of â€Å"fate† and â€Å"faith† of An-mei and Ying-ying The notions of balance and feng shui do translate to the characters’ lives in America. After one week of settling in a new apartment, Ying-ying begins to rearrange everything in this new home, so that good feng shui is attained. Later, Ying-ying knows that there are serious problems in her daughter’s marriage just by looking at her daughter’s house’s imbalance, which is embodied by â€Å"the slant of the floor† (184) and the â€Å"sloped roof - [with] two lopsides† (184). Ying-ying uses feng shui to accurately evaluate the house, which â€Å"underneath all the fancy details †¦ is still a barn† (184). Additionally, at the beginning of the story when June hesitates to join the mahjong table, Lindo says, â€Å"how can we play with just three people? Like a table with three legs, no balance†Show MoreRelatedThe Hobbit : My Favorite Story1009 Words   |  5 Pages As a kid, my parents weren’t really around, so my sister a nd I were raised by twenty five different nannies over the course of fifteen years. Because of this, I grew up hearing a wide variety of bedtime stories ranging from bible stories, to nursery rhymes, to hymns completely in Italian, to the adventures of Bilbo Baggins in The Hobbit. The Hobbit was always my favorite story. I loved it because J.R.R. Tolkien always knew how to give any situation a sort of thrilling peril. 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