As I was reading Rules of the Game by Amy Tan, it brings memories back from when I was a young girl with two younger sisters. This story is about a young six years old Chinese girl name Waverly Place Jong (named after a street). Her family called her Meimei.
She asked her mother what is Chinese torture. She said a boy in her class said that Chinese people do Chinese torture. While the mother was doing Meimei’s hair, she told her that Chinese people do many things such as business, medicine, and painting. “Not lazy like American people” (Tan, p.40). I didn’t like the mother’s tone with that sentence, American people are lazy. Yes, some American people are lazy, but she made it sound like all Americans are lazy. I definitely don’t think that is true. Not all are lazy. I have a busy life, and I am a college student. My parents work, and my sisters go to school. For one, we are not lazy people. The mother needs to learn how to talk to her daughter in a better way. I don’t want our future people (those young children, will be adults someday), to pick up that negative attitude. Time to change!
I played chess once, and I couldn’t grasp the concept of how to play that game. But, I did play games with my two younger sisters such as Clue, Guess Who, Checkers, and Candy Land. Haha, I know Candy Land, a little kid’s game. But I grew up babysitting younger
kids, and I always play board games with them. With older people I play cards. And, I guess it can parallel to life, because in Chess you have to take a chance to move the pieces. But, in life you have to take chances and risks.
She asked her mother what is Chinese torture. She said a boy in her class said that Chinese people do Chinese torture. While the mother was doing Meimei’s hair, she told her that Chinese people do many things such as business, medicine, and painting. “Not lazy like American people” (Tan, p.40). I didn’t like the mother’s tone with that sentence, American people are lazy. Yes, some American people are lazy, but she made it sound like all Americans are lazy. I definitely don’t think that is true. Not all are lazy. I have a busy life, and I am a college student. My parents work, and my sisters go to school. For one, we are not lazy people. The mother needs to learn how to talk to her daughter in a better way. I don’t want our future people (those young children, will be adults someday), to pick up that negative attitude. Time to change!
I played chess once, and I couldn’t grasp the concept of how to play that game. But, I did play games with my two younger sisters such as Clue, Guess Who, Checkers, and Candy Land. Haha, I know Candy Land, a little kid’s game. But I grew up babysitting younger
kids, and I always play board games with them. With older people I play cards. And, I guess it can parallel to life, because in Chess you have to take a chance to move the pieces. But, in life you have to take chances and risks. The mother wanted her daughter to win the game. That will be a good life tool for the girl, because she will learn how to take life seriously. Like my parents encouraged me to do well in school, etc. It makes the person I am today, by being serious in college. I thank my parents, however, I somewhat disagree in forcing a kid to win a game. It will teach them how to be selfish in my opinion. And, plus it’s just a game. Not everyone can win. I have two perspectives I can see in this story.
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