Literature Circles
Quote: “I found out I was pregnant the same day that my father’s rapid weight loss and chronic shortness of breath were positively diagnosed as end-stage pulmonary fibrosis.”
This shows that their life isn’t going in the direction they wanted to start it in. Edwidge and her father are definitely going through hard ships where she doesn’t want to tell him she’s pregnant and her father is embarrassed that he is losing so much weight. She was sad already when her parents left her for America and she was forced to be taken in by her uncle Joseph. But now that she is living with her parents she feels a little better.
I would be sad if my parents left me for another country but if I new I was being taken in by someone I really loved and that I could call “a second father” I would feel a little relieved. I can’t relate to the fact that I immigrated to America but if I was her father and I had a disease I would be embarrassed to show my face in public too.
How would you feel if you were Edwidge’s father?
Quote: “At the times, it was where papa appeared most comfortable, where he could cough without being embarrassed, because others were coughing too, some even more vociferously.”
This shows that the Americans weren’t verbally attacking her father because he’s an immigrant. Even if they didn’t pay attention to them it means they are treating him like an American. The doctors also treat him like an American and aren’t prejudice against him. I think he’s comfortable enough to feel at home in America.
I can relate to the comfortableness of the father because at the doctors if I’m coughing loudly people don’t look at me as if I’m a freak. I can also relate to being treated right because even though I was born in America I know there are people that are racist against Asians. Luckily I’m not persecuted for it.
If you were a doctor and had an immigrant patient how would you treat them?
Quote: “I found out I was pregnant the same day that my father’s rapid weight loss and chronic shortness of breath were positively diagnosed as end-stage pulmonary fibrosis.”
This shows that their life isn’t going in the direction they wanted to start it in. Edwidge and her father are definitely going through hard ships where she doesn’t want to tell him she’s pregnant and her father is embarrassed that he is losing so much weight. She was sad already when her parents left her for America and she was forced to be taken in by her uncle Joseph. But now that she is living with her parents she feels a little better.
I would be sad if my parents left me for another country but if I new I was being taken in by someone I really loved and that I could call “a second father” I would feel a little relieved. I can’t relate to the fact that I immigrated to America but if I was her father and I had a disease I would be embarrassed to show my face in public too.
How would you feel if you were Edwidge’s father?
Quote: “At the times, it was where papa appeared most comfortable, where he could cough without being embarrassed, because others were coughing too, some even more vociferously.”
This shows that the Americans weren’t verbally attacking her father because he’s an immigrant. Even if they didn’t pay attention to them it means they are treating him like an American. The doctors also treat him like an American and aren’t prejudice against him. I think he’s comfortable enough to feel at home in America.
I can relate to the comfortableness of the father because at the doctors if I’m coughing loudly people don’t look at me as if I’m a freak. I can also relate to being treated right because even though I was born in America I know there are people that are racist against Asians. Luckily I’m not persecuted for it.
If you were a doctor and had an immigrant patient how would you treat them?