Experiance That Affect Our Life

Each person in his life experiences some difficulties and faces some changes that affects his views, thoughts and changes his life totally. For some of them it might be experience of love, for others it might be the growing up problems and so on. In these cases everybody has different things to face. Among these life-changing experiences one of the hardest one, which changes people’s life once and forever is migration. Only the immigrants, every single one face the same problems and hardships. Some may ask their selves why they go for it. Most of them migrate because they want to have a better life, to receive a better education and other several reasons. In “The Jade Peony” these aspects of the immigrants experience are clearly shown on the example of the Chinese-Canadian family: language issues, behavior changes and loss of culture and memories.
The very first problem that the immigrant faces on the new place is the language barrier. It is one of the most common issues for all the immigrants. Especially for those ones who are in age from 30 and older. On the Grandmama’s example we can see how she hates Canada and most of the hate comes from the unknowing the language. In addition to that there is always another worry about the language problems: loss of the native language. In the story the children who study Spanish, French and German, those “scientific” languages from a “logical world” don’t like to study their native language – Mandarin. One of them says that mandarin only confuses them. Loss of the native language is one of the reasons of the conflicts between older and younger generations in the immigrants’ family.
If the language barrier is the issue mostly for the grownups, then the behaviour change is mostly a debatable land for the younger representatives among the immigrant’s group. Traveling from one country to another, transfer you to a different world with a different behaviours, style, culture, and point of view. A lot teenagers starts to