Photographs of My Parents
My parents have many photographs: when they were younger. They look a lot different from now. Of course, they look younger, fresh and better-looking. I also saw photographs of the two of them when they used to date but I never knew their story. Anyway, this story isn’t really about my parents. It’s a story that portrays the author’s, Maxine Hong Kingston, identity and cultural experiences as a Chinese American. It also showed the differences among the Chinese and Chinese-American culture. The mother’s photographs represented the Chinese culture while the father’s photographs characterize the Chinese-American.
From the photographs of her mother she looked formal; she wasn’t humorous and showed her level belonging to a lower class. She is intelligent, alert and pretty. She rudely stares to American people around her. She didn’t trust the people around her especially they were on different races. Her father was more confident, worry-free and more comfortable. He was a fashionable, friendly and humorous guy.
The story reflects on issues of immigrant culture such as heritage and assimilation, themes that dominate to exploration of lives of different races. I think the story had mixed fact and fiction, drawing upon biography, autobiography, legend, and history to create a form of descriptive that blends essentials of Chinese history and myth with aspects of contemporary American culture. Kingston gained a great deal of attention for this pioneering approach.
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