Everything I Never Told You Quotes

Your True Roots Through out the novel Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng, one can see how the character James and the Lee family are haunted because of their place of origin. Since his parents were immigrants from China, they had a very rough beginning in the U.S. James had to grow up being treated different from everyone else because he wasn’t “like the rest”. Why? Simply because of someone’s physical appearance, they are automatically categorized as an oriental person. Even till this day a person can be greatly affected by their place of origin. Many families like Jame’s, have struggled for a living, are humiliated, and are highly discriminated against just because they are from a different race. Just like the

No matter where you’re from there has always been inequality. For instance,
“Professor Carlson informed James that he was very, very sorry to disappoint him, but they had decided to take his classmate Wiliamiam McPherson instead. ‘Did they say why?’ Marilyn asked, and james replied, ‘ I wasn’t the right fit for the department, they said” (Ng, P. 50).
Truly, this had been discrimination. They said James wasn’t “fit” for the position because he was different and they had decided to give the position to someone else. Although they weren’t very direct to say why James knew it was a position he deserved but there had been favoritism into someone that’s was ordinary and not different. James place of origin had always affected him even up until his marriage with Marilyn. Marilyn’s mother hadn’t wanted her to get married to him for this reason. She believed Marilyn was making a mistake she would soon regret. To emphasize this point I too was discriminated till this era. Trying to join the volleyball team my freshman year the coach had discriminated me. “Sorry but you aren’t in shape to be on the team, besides I don’t think you’re good for volleyball, try soccer, Latinos are good in that sport”, she had said. I had worked just as hard as everyone else and came to realize that the slowest person had made the team, but they were all white golden girls on the team. I simply didn’t fit