Who is Elizabeth Wong?
Elizabeth Wong is a playwright and TV writer who grew up in chinatown in LA. She educated at the USC(1980) and NYU(1991) and she has worked as a reporter and taught in the theater department at Bowdoin College.
After looking at Carrie's essay "White Buds on an apple tree", what are some similar "moves" that this writer is making in her essay？
Wong also had some very-detailed description on her chinese school experience. And she also use several little stories that happened on her family members. And she had her thesis at the end of the essay that she prefers "English" more than "Chinese".
How does she begin this essay(intro)? How does she end the essay(conclusion)?
She begins the essay with telling the audience the chinese school which her and her brother used to go. She describe an old but familiar scene to begin telling people her past experience with the chinese school. At the end, she use "sadly, i still am" to make the conclusion that she is still an All-American girl. She is not " one of them".
How do we know for sure that Wong regrets her assimilation into American culture?Be specific.
There is one which is very obvious at the end of the essay:" At last, i was one of you, I wasn't one of them. Sadly, i still am." Although Wong went to the chinese school to learn chinese in order to get multiculture experiences, however, the american culture had deeply affected her life, her opnion and especially her language. It is very sad that the daughter does not speak the same language as her parents do. I think the reason she feels regret is that she had totally lost the inheritage of languages from her parents.
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