"CGG" Passage Connections

The passages I’m writing about are from a book written by Ying Ma that is called “Chinese Girl In The Ghetto”. These scenes were assigned to me in the sense of paraphrasing these 3 different scenes and creating somewhat obvious connections between them. All in the sense of using them for future writing assignments as well as further classwork notes.

As I read all three passages, I notice that Ying Ma establishes a hatred that is specifically directed at everyone other than her ethnic kind, although this hatred swings back and forth to her ethnic people as well in certain situations. Let’s keep in mind that she lives in “the ghetto” as said in the title. However, the hatred is there but you only see it when it is provokingly brought out by negative issue’s that she encounters and experiences. For example she experiences a mediocre form of theft in which a significant pencil of hers is stolen by three kids in her class. She states that she could’ve seized it back by force being that she appeared to be bigger than them but she had never beaten anyone to get what she wanted. In this case, back home she didn’t have to worry about any issue related to this one so the urge to confront them didn’t exist. However, when she told the teacher about this the teacher didn’t really do anything because when the kids were confronted they lied and said they didn’t take anything, so the teacher just gave her another pencil. That is one scene in which her hatred developed uncontrollably.

Now to relate them in being connected with each other. All three passages are basically “conflict based” scenes in which develops over time. The first two are a result to how her significant pencil that she brought from China was stolen which lead to her hatred for the three kids in specific aspects, like toward their parents, their poverty, etc. Then the last scene is a conflict in which Hispanic kids destroyed her parent’s garden and she gets so frustrated that she confronts the Hispanic mother about it. She then views and understands the struggle that this lady is going through as well, but however that doesn’t shun her hatred just yet because she said “ On days like that one, I felt the absurdity of the need to fight against other immigrants like her”, (Ying Ma 127). In this sense she develops a sense of rebellion and hatred against the immigrants that she criticizes constantly disregarding the stupidity of how it all sounds to fight against them. Therefore I see that as a main connection between these passages, and also the sense of her back-home safety being a norm to not fight the boys for her pencil. All of these issues close in on a few views that she hates the life of living in the ghetto, which can be a result of her persistent pride and integrity that her parents work so hard and have to put up with this life rather than being rewarded a better life. In my point of view these are my views of the connections between these scenes and how they all similar interact with each other.