Bowling to Find a Lost Father by Mee Her: A Summary
Summary
The essay “Bowling to Find a Lost Father” by Mee Her – a Hmong immigrant from Laos, came to America with her family in 1976. Her family entered the U.S as political refugees. In her essay, she describes the problem that makes a gap she and her father when they came to the United States as immigrants. She said she remembered the closeness that she used to have with her father when they lived in Laos. There, they had gone everywhere and done everything together, so these kept the relationship between children and parents close. But everything has changed when they have lived in the country where everything is so sophisticated. Her father had begun to build walls around his children by becoming so overly protective. He didn’t let them play outside or go out with their friend and using concepts of hard work to keep them at home like dutiful. Those make them felt emotionally distant form him. Until her third year in college, she realized that all wasn’t his fault that he just didn’t know how to be included in his children life. So she decided to improve their relationship through taught him how to play bowling with them. She said “this was the beginning of building a bridge across a long-created gap between Dad and his children”. Eventually their relationship gradually improved.
Response The essay “Bowling to Find a Lost Father” has presented the problem of the relationship between parent and children in different countries. In Laos, her family has a good relationship, but when they came to the United States the relationship between she and her father had been changing. Her father began to build walls around his children and had been frightening to live with children who didn’t live in the same world that he did. But I agree with her opinion, the reason that makes a gap between parents and children isn’t parents fault that they just didn’t know how to be included in their children life. I’ve realized the gap between my parents and me since my family
The essay “Bowling to Find a Lost Father” by Mee Her – a Hmong immigrant from Laos, came to America with her family in 1976. Her family entered the U.S as political refugees. In her essay, she describes the problem that makes a gap she and her father when they came to the United States as immigrants. She said she remembered the closeness that she used to have with her father when they lived in Laos. There, they had gone everywhere and done everything together, so these kept the relationship between children and parents close. But everything has changed when they have lived in the country where everything is so sophisticated. Her father had begun to build walls around his children by becoming so overly protective. He didn’t let them play outside or go out with their friend and using concepts of hard work to keep them at home like dutiful. Those make them felt emotionally distant form him. Until her third year in college, she realized that all wasn’t his fault that he just didn’t know how to be included in his children life. So she decided to improve their relationship through taught him how to play bowling with them. She said “this was the beginning of building a bridge across a long-created gap between Dad and his children”. Eventually their relationship gradually improved.
Response The essay “Bowling to Find a Lost Father” has presented the problem of the relationship between parent and children in different countries. In Laos, her family has a good relationship, but when they came to the United States the relationship between she and her father had been changing. Her father began to build walls around his children and had been frightening to live with children who didn’t live in the same world that he did. But I agree with her opinion, the reason that makes a gap between parents and children isn’t parents fault that they just didn’t know how to be included in their children life. I’ve realized the gap between my parents and me since my family