Lu's Response

Lu's Response

Natalie Beech  Lu’s  Response

I chose Tyler’s writing on Lu because he gets straight to the point. He summarizes the story. And answered how he felt the reason why she had trouble expressing her feelings when her mother died. I think deep down she held a little anger toward her mother but at the end I think that she appreciated her teaching different cultures to her. It made her into a well rounded person. In Tyler's essay I like how he mentioned how Lu’s mom went silent and apologized about teaching the kids English and the western culture. I think that as a mom you look back at what you wish you would have changed. If you really look back and evaluate your parenting mistakes, for the most part, it has not only taught your child but it has taught you. And it makes both of you a stronger person. I think Lu’s mom did this, but at the same time I think she in the end was happy to give her kids all the diversity.  I wonder if she was pressured into saying sorry because of what her society and religion expected of her as a person.  But as a mom I think she did the right thing to care so much about being a good mom. 

Tyler Montgomery

Exploratory writing Lu

Lu’s essay was about how her education was dominated by memories of confusion and frustration; when her mother was dying she was unable to speak about the confusion and frustration with her mother. I think that this was cause she was raised at home learning English and reading Dickens and other writers at that time period. Her parents wanted to make her cultured along with this came persecution for her learning of western society and the modernized world. When she would go to school she was oppressed under the communist regime of Moa Tse-tung. Under his rule she could not openly express herself and the culture that she was taught at home. I think that she had trouble expressing her feelings to her mother when she was about to die because before she went silent she apologized about teaching the kids English and the western culture, but Lu did not feel this way about it. She says in her essay about how it helped her become who she was thru the both the learning and the persecution she went thru under the communist regime. She say that it developed her into what she is and was glad about that her parents were able to teach her about the western society