The Narrative Paragraph

The Struggle to Be an All-American Girl by Elizabeth Wong

Comprehension

1. Elizabeth Wong and her brother instead of going with their friends, they went to Chinese school.
2. Their attitude about going to Chinese school was negative and disapproving since they scream and kicked to their mother they didn't want to go.
3. Their mother wanted them to go to Chinese school since it was the language of their heritage and where forced to learn it.
4. Wong compares the Chinese with the public school and determines that in Chinese school she learns how to read, write and speak the language while in public school she learns mathematics, science and literature, which she considers more important since she believes than learning the language.
5. According to Wong, her grandmother was a fragile seventies woman who could outshout the best of the street vendor with a raunchy humor, and her rhythm less and pattern less Chinese. Her attitude towards her grandmother was not a good one since the language didn't sympathized her because it was loud, quick and unbeautiful.
6. Wong's brother had a more excited and more appealing attitude towards speaking English than she did. It was so, that he would criticize his own mother because of pidgin speech , lack of understanding and pronunciation of the English language. I would account this behavior justifiable since their mother forced them to know a language they didn't want to learn and was strict with them in making them learn it.  
7. In paragraph 14 she quotes" At last, I was one of you, I wasn't one of them". She refers to you as the American people and them as the Chinese people.

Discussion

1. Wong says she's multicultural because of the way she and her brother are raised by a Chinese mother living in America and attending a public school. Wong also says her mother obligates them to go to a Chinese school to learn the language and somehow I do think this example is surprising because the way their mother wants them to learn the language and writing even though they doesn't want to. 
2. "Sadly I still am" is what she says at the last sentence where she refers and let us know that her attitude changed completely towards the Chinese school changed when she became an adult. I think the reason of her change comes with the maturity that now she knows the importance and the meaning of being multicultural a thing that her teenager ignorance didn't let her know. 
3.  I don't think it's right to obligate and force them to attend the Chinese school as she mentioned in the story because somehow everything their mother forced them to go a little bit of hate towards the culture was being made in their minds, a thought that if she would have gave them to choice to go maybe a little interest would have made them go. 
4. I think it's possible to maintain a good multicultural life only if you really want to, the thing that I don't think it's possible is the fact that someone could eliminate some of their heritages totally just for becoming part of another culture. A person can lose and gain everything for becoming "all American", losing the opportunity to know and experience a culture just for knowing other when you can experience both and becoming a multicultural person never hurt anybody.