Pg. 60 "She was a strong and proud woman....and fulfill her role as a dutiful Korean daughter"
The mother sacrificed her promising future for the sake of her future Korean family and to abide by tradition. If she had not sacrificed her future, Boy Genius would not have had the chance for a happy, traditional Korean culture-filled childhood. She sacrificed her future in favor of a son and family she did not even have yet. This demonstrates the cultural norm of how parents sacrifice individual gain for the benefit of the family as a whole, or for the benefit of another in general.
Pg. 91-92 "Every morning, before the scurried away.....in a house next to white people.
Based on the implications of the text, the parents had very demeaning jobs at an extremely low pay. In the United States, they were restricted to these limited possibilities of jobs whereas in South Korea, even in the village, they would have had more freedom of the self. As the working poor, they sacrificed their days working for meager pay in hoped to improve the life of their son.
Artifact: Penny
We chose a penny to symbolize how poor the parents were int he United States. They gave up their life and left behind all they knew in South Korea, and left their families for the chance of a better life for their son in the United States.
-Megan Wong
-Jonathan Li
-Jack Chen
The mother sacrificed her promising future for the sake of her future Korean family and to abide by tradition. If she had not sacrificed her future, Boy Genius would not have had the chance for a happy, traditional Korean culture-filled childhood. She sacrificed her future in favor of a son and family she did not even have yet. This demonstrates the cultural norm of how parents sacrifice individual gain for the benefit of the family as a whole, or for the benefit of another in general.
Pg. 91-92 "Every morning, before the scurried away.....in a house next to white people.
Based on the implications of the text, the parents had very demeaning jobs at an extremely low pay. In the United States, they were restricted to these limited possibilities of jobs whereas in South Korea, even in the village, they would have had more freedom of the self. As the working poor, they sacrificed their days working for meager pay in hoped to improve the life of their son.
Artifact: Penny
We chose a penny to symbolize how poor the parents were int he United States. They gave up their life and left behind all they knew in South Korea, and left their families for the chance of a better life for their son in the United States.
-Megan Wong
-Jonathan Li
-Jack Chen
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