Breaking The Mold Don’t forget page numbers and header with last name on each page (Top Right Corner, not bottom) Tulio Barros
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Class description date In immigrant families, family traditions and the struggle for one’s independence re-shape the parent-child relationship. People who grow up in a country that is foreign to them often break family tradition as they grow to have different goals and standards than that of their parents. By breaking tradition and seeking their own goals, people form their own identity. Children who have immigrant parents will always have different goals and traditions than their parents? Maxine Hong Kingston, a Chinese-American, breaks her traditional mold by publishing a story that her mother told Maxine never to speak about to anyone, especially not her father. In No Name Woman quotes not italics Maxine’s mother opens the story by warning her “[y]ou must not tell anyone,” mother said, “what I am about to tell you. In China your father had a sister who killed herself. She jumped into the family well. We say your father has all brothers because it is as if she had never been born” (29). In Maxine’s family, the tradition her mother wants her to follow is that of not speaking about a tragedy that happened on the father’s side of the family. As demented as it is to tell a daughter what she just did, it is more traditionally important to her mother that Maxine not break the silence and speak on this matter, however, Maxine has questions of her own regarding this story that have never been answered; she decides to break tradition and publishes a paper on what she thought has happened and the possible events that lead to it. Run-on sentence? Even with semi colons that’s really long.
Throughout No Name Woman Quotes not italics Maxine’s mother exclaims “[d]on’t let your father know