Janice Mirikitani Suicide Note Summary

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Janice Mirikitani is a very accomplished poet, who has written a beautiful poem called “Suicide Note”, this poem is about a young Asian American student who has committed suicide in 1987 because she has suffered a lot of problems throughout her life because of her parent’s treatment. Mirikitani describes how the young girl writes this sad letter to her parents because she wants to apologize for them for not being the perfect girl in college. Also the young girl is apologizing to her parents for being a girl not a boy as they want because as she thinks that they would be happy if she is a son. The young girl thought that she does not deserve to be alive, or maybe her parents think that. Even though, she has worked very hard all of her life.