This is the blog for Asian American Literature at De Anza College, Winter 2011
Saturday, January 22, 2011
The late homecomer
How is the author be able to comprehend so much about the war, the immigration of the time when she is still a little baby, spends her childhood in American and absorbs American's education?
Because from the beginning of the book, when someone tell her a story, she become lost within it and for the fact that she love listening to them. When she was at the transition camp and stuck in the "daycare center for babies", she wish she was still was in the other camp and listening to the people who love her, tell her stories. Through these stories, i believe is how she received her information. When one lives through a certain situation, they are compensated with a special hidden talent.
When she was young she did not experience the war. However as she says in the book, all the adults always talked about it. There were many stories and I'm sure that she interviewed her family and maybe even other Hmong who went through the war to get a better grasp of it.
She is told almost from birth about the oral history of the Hmong people by her grandmother. Being born at a refugee camp in Thailand, she and her family and the other refugees are all waiting for the same thing, transportation to the U.S. In preparation of her families departure, her grandmother and parents prepare her and her sister by going to classes that mirror the Western school style. She is also uses the struggles of her parents as a way to gain a better education because her parents told her and her sister that the only way away from government assistance is an education.
Yang stated that people always talked about it. Even though she was a child during the war growing up she always heard stories of her people and what sadness that had to over come. I would think that she would get curious and ask different family member of what had happen and why did they have to leave to America.
Like my own experience, i was very young when we fled the war, but my parents and their friends always talked about it. So I think from all the stories that she heard around her,
I think it's because her family has told her what has happened plus she has probably heard the experiences that the people that was in that refugee camp was going through also.
Her family always talked to her about the War since she was a kid. So she grew up with this idea inside her head. Her family and other Hmong people told her many stories about the War and the immigration to America. So, that's why she knows and cares a lot about it.
To me, the Late homecomer is not a story about Yang but it tells the stories of her family. As she was growing up with her parents, grandmother, uncles and aunts. They became people closet to her and they each have a story to tell. I think more than anything, Yang wanted to let others know of the experiences that her closed ones went through.
I believe authors parents and stories from other immigrants help made the author write about the war descriptions besides Yang's personal interest in learning about her past. I think the main focus of the story is to tell the US society that how hard it is to migrate to the US.
Because from the beginning of the book, when someone tell her a story, she become lost within it and for the fact that she love listening to them. When she was at the transition camp and stuck in the "daycare center for babies", she wish she was still was in the other camp and listening to the people who love her, tell her stories. Through these stories, i believe is how she received her information. When one lives through a certain situation, they are compensated with a special hidden talent.
ReplyDeleteWhen she was young she did not experience the war. However as she says in the book, all the adults always talked about it. There were many stories and I'm sure that she interviewed her family and maybe even other Hmong who went through the war to get a better grasp of it.
ReplyDeleteShe is told almost from birth about the oral history of the Hmong people by her grandmother. Being born at a refugee camp in Thailand, she and her family and the other refugees are all waiting for the same thing, transportation to the U.S. In preparation of her families departure, her grandmother and parents prepare her and her sister by going to classes that mirror the Western school style. She is also uses the struggles of her parents as a way to gain a better education because her parents told her and her sister that the only way away from government assistance is an education.
ReplyDeleteYang stated that people always talked about it. Even though she was a child during the war growing up she always heard stories of her people and what sadness that had to over come. I would think that she would get curious and ask different family member of what had happen and why did they have to leave to America.
ReplyDeleteLike my own experience, i was very young when we fled the war, but my parents and their friends always talked about it. So I think from all the stories that she heard around her,
ReplyDeleteI think it's because her family has told her what has happened plus she has probably heard the experiences that the people that was in that refugee camp was going through also.
ReplyDeleteHer family always talked to her about the War since she was a kid. So she grew up with this idea inside her head. Her family and other Hmong people told her many stories about the War and the immigration to America. So, that's why she knows and cares a lot about it.
ReplyDeleteTo me, the Late homecomer is not a story about Yang but it tells the stories of her family. As she was growing up with her parents, grandmother, uncles and aunts. They became people closet to her and they each have a story to tell. I think more than anything, Yang wanted to let others know of the experiences that her closed ones went through.
ReplyDeleteI believe authors parents and stories from other immigrants help made the author write about the war descriptions besides Yang's personal interest in learning about her past. I think the main focus of the story is to tell the US society that how hard it is to migrate to the US.
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