The struggle to Be an All-American Girl Summary and Reaction:

In the short story "Become a National Girl's Struggle," Wong explained that she does not like to go to school in China. Wong and her brothers were forcibly taken from the mother to the Chinese school. Huang does not like this smell, writing in Chinese, and most importantly speaking Chinese. Wong likes the smell of her English school, she reads American books and speaks English. Wong was embarrassed by her grandmother's voice. Because she thought the Chinese were ugly and not suitable for them. Wong is inspired by English and I am watching it as very beautiful. Wong brothers are very embarrassed, his mother does not understand English. Two years later, Huang no longer need to attend Chinese school. Wong is very happy to stop attending Chinese school, but I am sorry that she is always Chinese.

In the story "Become a national girl's struggle," Elizabeth Juan does not understand how special the two languages ​​are and how they can bring bilingual profits It seems. I am bilingual. It is wonderful to know how to speak English and Spanish. Being an American is a wonderful thing, but having a different ethnic background is wonderful. Won tried to become an "American girl" and tried to give up her culture and her first language. Wong tried to get rid of the Chinese culture and was extremely happy to realize that she gave up her Chinese tradition.

Elizabeth Huang's "struggle for girls in the United States" is about the desire for childhood to break away from different culture. She is a Chinese, I'd like to become an "American girl". Her mother forced Huang and her brother to go to Chinese school so that they can understand their culture and understand everything. Wong talked a lot about Americans, not Chinese. She cited several examples to explain in detail the differences between her school, the Chinese school, and the national school. For example, the smell of the classroom, the subject taught at school, and the last word. Wong is fascinated by American culture, but her brother is more excited about it. He often judges the way mothers speak in English and blames her for poor performance in the American language.

Elizabeth Hoang wrote about her experiences of her and her brother who changed Chinese culture as an American as a child in "struggle to become a nationwide girl". Because of the mother's enthusiasm, they went to school in China, but they really did not like to go to school. In school, I learned not only Chinese but also politeness. When she was 10 years old, she started learning Chinese culture instead of American culture she wanted to get, and thought it was better than Chinese culture. The Chinese is "a source of bondage" for her (p. 21 para 7). She hates it and treats it as a normal language. Especially in Chinatown, the flow of Chinese people is confused and sounds fanatical. She does not want to be regarded as the same as them. In the case of her brother, he wants to speak as a typical American, he even blames his mother for his poor verbal English and his mother's bad English.