Fifth Chinese Daughter by Jade Snow Wong

Nene is surprised how different her values are from people who live far from a city. I'm quite sure about that.' Which statement correctly analyzes this passage in terms of its historical context? Nene realizes immediately that her marriage to Nnaemeka will cause conflict in his family. A letter will bring it upon him with a shock. ' 'It would not be wise to break the news to him by writing. Come on then, be a good boy and send him a nice lovely letter.

But anyway, as your father is so fond of you, I'm sure he will forgive you soon enough. If your father were alive and lived in the heart of Ibibio-land he would be exactly like my father.' 'I don't know. And this,' he added, 'is not peculiar to the Ibos. But when it comes to marriage, well, it's not quite so simple. At last she said, 'You don't really mean that he will object to your marrying me simply on that account? I had always thought you Ibos were kindly disposed to other people.' 'So we are. In the cosmopolitan atmosphere of the city it had always seemed to her something of a joke that a person's tribe could determine whom he married. In our case it's worse-you are not even an Ibo.' This was said so seriously and so bluntly that Nene could not find speech immediately. They are most unhappy if the engagement is not arranged by them. In this passage, Nnaemeka speaks first, and Nene speaks second. And finally the artist whose early triumphs were doubled by the knowledge that she had at long last won recognition from her family.Read the passage from 'Marriage Is a Private Affair' by Chinua Achebe. After that the college student feeling her was toward personal identity in the face of parental indifference or outright opposition. Then the schoolgirl caught in confusion between the rigid teaching of her ancestors and the strange ways of her foreign classmates. We first meet Jade Snow Wong the child, narrowly confined by the family and factory life, bound to respect and obey her elders while shouldering responsibility for younger brothers and sisters - a solemn child well versed in the proper order of things, who knew that punishment was sure for any infraction of etiquette. The third-person singular style is rooted in Chinese literary form, reflecting cultural disregard for the individual, yet Jad Snow Wong's story also is typically American.

They not only portray a young woman and her unique family in San Francisco's Chinatown, but they are rich in the details that light up a world within the world of America.

These memoirs of the author's first twenty-four years are thoughtful, informative, and highly entertaining. Originally published in 1945 and now reissued with a new introduction by the author, Jade Snow Wong's story is one of struggle and achievements.

Fifth Chinese Daughter by Jade Snow Wong