Paper Menagerie Mother

It is easy to hurt others
The role of “mother” is pretty vital in most people’s mind. In the story “Paper Menagerie”, the narrator, Jack, treats his mother different. In his childhood, he likes his mom very much. However, because he is a Chinese, he is discriminated by other American. He thinks it is all his mother’s fault. As he grows up, he realizes that the discrimination from others is not his mother’s fault neither not his fault which because he is a Chinese. However, he pays a hefty price for maturity. The author, Ken Liu, shows the culture discrimination at that time based on the development of Jack’s character.
When Jack is an infant, he cried day and night until his mother makes a paper tiger to stop him crying. Even his father, a strong man who can speak English, cannot stop him. Jack’s mom only uses her hands to do that. Jack’s childhood is accompanied by these toys which made by his mother. These animal toys can walk, can fight, even can swim. The author says: “I don’t know this at the time, but Mom’s kind was special. She breathed into them so that they shared her breath, and thus moved with her life.” (Ken, 1) Jack’s mother plays a role of superwoman in this period. He adores his mother because she
He finds that letter at Qingming. In that letter, Jack understands his mom about her past at the first time. He realizes that he is wrong when he sees the last sentence in the letter “Why won’t you talk to me, son? The pain makes it hard to write.” (8) His mother tries to talk to him and tries to learn English, while the innocent son refuses to speak to her because he does not want to be the special one in America. Jack write down the Chinese character ai in the letter again and again“I wrote the character again and again on the paper, intertwining my pen strokes with her words.” (8) In the end, Jack’s attitude changes, he