Summary Of Everything I Never Told Me

Reading Journal Entry 1 The first two chapters of Everything I Never Told You felt like quick summaries of the time Lydia was missing, and the story of how her mother and father got together. It provides the reader a glimpse into life as an Asian-American, life as a teenager, as well as how people of races other than white were treated during the 20th century. Asian-Americans in the 20th century and even now, are treated like their fundamental understanding of how the English language works is deficient. Others usually try to speak to Asians “loudly and slowly” (Ng 11), as if their hearing is poor. Sometimes people may ask, “What’s wrong with your eyes?” (Ng 43) though that is simply a hereditary trait of certain Asians. In their teenage