Debra did not know that her husband died during her kidnapping. She also discovered that the authorities suspect her of her husband’s murder. After the escape, she experienced different grieving emotions. Even after the capture
In Iris Chang’s The Rape of Nanking, Mrs. Chang gives light into a subject not very commonly known that occured in December of 1937 and extended to January of the following year, the event was around four to six weeks in length, and claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands and thousands more were mutilated, raped, tortured and killed. Mrs. Chang’s purpose of writing this text is to expose to the world an event not very well known, a Holocaust preceding that of the Jews. She does this by stating the issue of what caused this tragic and horrific event, in this case, the cause of why the Japanese did this is extreme nationalism. Mrs. Chang not only talks about the events that happened during those six weeks, but also of the safe zone created
Li Xiu Ying was the few survivors during the cause of Nanking Massacre on December 1937. She was stabbed 37 times, and miraculously survived, becoming the most powerful witness of that tragic history. Li Xiu Ying has been using her personal experience to expose the atrocities of those Japanese invaders. She was 19 years old and seven month pregnant when the attack happened, causing her to not be able to flee, so she together with her father hid in the Nanking International Safety Zone which is under the Mountain Elementary School. But the Japanese Soldiers broke in and attempts to rape her, and while fighting back, she was stabbed, and after those soldier left, her father managed to send her to the Nanking Golou Hospital.
She gave him her coat, her shoe things, her life. Every step was a battle as she was
The Rape of Nanking, written by Iris Chang, is a documentary style book that offers inside previews to the horrifying atrocities that occurred in Nanking, the capital of the Republic of China, between December 1937 and February 1938. Chang’s writing style is straightforward and unfiltered, offering no barrier between the reader and the horrific events that are unveiled in the text. The book begins with a brief introduction of Chinese and Japanese cultural background, explaining the beliefs of the Chinese Confucianism and the Japanese Samurai; both of which greatly affect the reasons the war was so gruesome. It also opens the eyes of the reader as to why Chang would want to pursue such a gripping and controversial topic. One reason for this
Family stories that I have heard of that time involve echoe the perverse tortures, the extreme violence and the disregard for Chinese lives by the Imperial Japanese Army that characterized
Then she becomes angry once she realizes she is dead. She crashes her grandma’s car trying to kill herself thinking that will make everything better. After this, she enters depression. She spends all of her time and money at the Observation Decks watching her family. Then, she begins bargaining.
Sally and her family went through many trials and tribulations
Jasmine Wu, aspiring journalist and student of the world, died Sunday after being trampled in the stampede towards Canada following news of Donald Trump’s election to the Presidency of the United States. Wu was born May 21, 1996 in Flushing, N.Y, a neighborhood in Queens, N.Y. Born to Taiwanese immigrants, Wu was an independent spirit from early on, as she had to learn English and translate for her Mandarin-speaking parents. Growing up in one of the world’s most ethnically diverse cities, Wu found herself fascinated with other cultures and ways of thinking. “I’ve only known her for less than a year, but she’s gone off to do these really cool things to help people.
She saw their pain and their misery, and she wanted to bring them food. She went a little closer, and then she stopped. She thought. She would not run towards them like she did before. Too painful.
She lies there, in her bed all day. From the moment she found out about her husband’s adultery, she lies there, the poor creature, unable to put a bite in her mouth. She has completely abandoned her body to her pain.
But, unfortunately, her journey to Chungking becomes a nightmare to her. “I packed my things and my two babies into this wheelbarrow and began pushing to Chungking four days before the Japanese marched into Kweilin. On the road I heard news of slaughter from people running past me. It was terrible” (26). At that time, there is no train to leave Kweilin, so she has to carry all of her belongings plus her two babies to Chungking by using a wheelbarrow used to haul coal.
After she was killed, her parents had begun to wonder where Betty went. The police
In The Joy Luck Club, written by Amy Tan, we are introduced to Suyuan and her daughter Jing-Mei “June” Woo. As with any relationship, there is conflict between Suyuan Woo and her daughter, as it seems that Jing-Mei doesn’t understand her mother’s Chinese culture and ambitions. In the Chinese culture, women are seen as inferior and often lack basic rights such as the right to marriage or financial holdings, thus deprived of their potential. This is why the rights in the U.S. are seen as privileges to Chinese women, among other minorities, and why Suyuan endeavored for her daughter to become a prodigy and excel in anything and everything. Yet as Jing-Mei was forced into this ideal, and the more her mother tried to enforce this idea, the further she begun to despise her mother for attempting to turn her into a “fraud”.
When Richard’s heard the news of her husband’s death, he assumed Mrs. Mallard would be devastated. While everyone knew Mrs. Mallard was “afflicted with heart trouble” (57), him and her sister, Josephine, wanted to give her the news with “great care” (57). Josephine broke the news to Mrs. Mallard in “broken sentences”
